In regards to the meaning of this song:
Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
Facing your front door
The one you hide behind
You fight with bedroom eyes
While I proudly wear mine
The entrance that I make
Will fall so short of grand
A hopeful knock sounds tired
Before my hopeful plans
You put your hand in mine
It fits so perfectly
Your whispers between kisses
Show me all that I could be
Please make me not so crazy
Make me fall apart
Make me think beautiful, unexpected thoughts
I should mean more
I trace every curve
On your precious face
And pray someday you'll beg me
To beg you to run away
Please make me not so crazy
Make me fall apart
Make me think beautiful, unexpected thoughts
I should mean more
I should mean more
I should mean more
I should mean more
The one you hide behind
You fight with bedroom eyes
While I proudly wear mine
The entrance that I make
Will fall so short of grand
A hopeful knock sounds tired
Before my hopeful plans
You put your hand in mine
It fits so perfectly
Your whispers between kisses
Show me all that I could be
Please make me not so crazy
Make me fall apart
Make me think beautiful, unexpected thoughts
I should mean more
I trace every curve
On your precious face
And pray someday you'll beg me
To beg you to run away
Please make me not so crazy
Make me fall apart
Make me think beautiful, unexpected thoughts
I should mean more
I should mean more
I should mean more
I should mean more
Lyrics submitted by nikki04
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I think this song is sort of a guy, going to a girl's house in the middle of the night, just to comfort here... He thinks he should mean more to her than someone who comes around once in a while and she uses him emotionally and physically... He doesn't seem to have a problem with it, but he seems to strive for something more.
what is meant by "make me fall apart"?
it's the picture perfect moment between these two. but the emotion is only one sided. one is wishing they meant more to the other person. but in reality, it will always be one-sided, therefore doomed. "make me think beautiful, unexpected thoughts". thats how someone should make you feel. its apparently not that way in this instance. & the heartbreak will soon set in...
i think the whole "make me fall apart" line just refers to the complete loss of control that comes with true love, not really in a negative way, just the complete surendered over to the other person. i dont know i like that line though. its like he wants to completely give himself to her, but she just doesnt really have her heart in it too.. good lyrics
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It's funny, just as soon as I think that I am over emo, I hear some JamisonParker. It's so beautiful. I'm in love with this band now.
this song makes me think of a realtionship where she really cares about him, but hes just numb to the whole situation
Make me fall apart Make me think beautiful, unexpected thoughts I should mean more
he wants her to affect him adn he wants to feel something for her...but something is holding him back...i should mean more i think is talking about how he should mean more of the things hey says to her
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I think this song is about somebody who is potentially not in a sane state and he finds this girl, that he is attracted to and he wants to want her. But can't find it in himself. Like the line from Mayday Parade;
"i know you want me to want you, i want to"
" I trace every curve On your precious face And pray someday you'll beg me To beg you to run away "
I think he's saying, like how amazing she is and that he wants her to one day be able to hurt him the way he hurts her.
no one really knows what an artists songs are about unless they hear it from the artist themself, but i'm pretty sure this song is about him wanting to mean everything to a girl who doesn't treat him the way he wants her to.