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.
(Intro)
Countless years between the fated crossings
From the mighty threshold into time
Under the ice-blue glare of a star-filled night
Once again I had arrived…
(Verse 1)
Another point of transition, another’s grand design
The endless quest of a darker mind
A skewed symbiotic voyage through the all
The legatee of a night much maligned
(Grind 1)
Egested “innocence” …an empyrean expulsion
The ethereal levee breaks in multicosmic explosion
(Groove 1)
Unbound I rise
The aleph-null was the lie
Far beyond the rubicon
In league with the Unlight!
(Verse 2)
Fetid crests of purulent seas flowing over all
The cleansing streams transecting time
Guided through the propylaeum of the lemniscate
Supposition’s proof in drowning cries!
(Grind 2)
Aberrant infinities …a systematic return to primal night
Incalculable nefariousness swathed in failing light
(Groove 2)
Unbound I rise
The aleph-null was the lie
Far beyond the rubicon
In league with the Unlight!
(guitar solo)
(end run1)
As the external projection of the Will, I will embody the insurrection into time
With the cosmic singularity well within grasp, I pluck from the churning vortex a view into…
(end blast1)
The blinding splendor of the multileveled universe…
The linear continuum of uncountable infinities!
(end run 2)
A point between all other points and nowhere in between, with malice of forethought I pass through time unseen.
Where others failed before I was successful in my task, and so the ignis fatuus fades and I return to…
(end blast2)
The blinding splendor of the multileveled universe…
The linear continuum of uncountable infinities!
(outro)
With malice of forethought
I pass through time unseen!
Countless years between the fated crossings
From the mighty threshold into time
Under the ice-blue glare of a star-filled night
Once again I had arrived…
(Verse 1)
Another point of transition, another’s grand design
The endless quest of a darker mind
A skewed symbiotic voyage through the all
The legatee of a night much maligned
(Grind 1)
Egested “innocence” …an empyrean expulsion
The ethereal levee breaks in multicosmic explosion
(Groove 1)
Unbound I rise
The aleph-null was the lie
Far beyond the rubicon
In league with the Unlight!
(Verse 2)
Fetid crests of purulent seas flowing over all
The cleansing streams transecting time
Guided through the propylaeum of the lemniscate
Supposition’s proof in drowning cries!
(Grind 2)
Aberrant infinities …a systematic return to primal night
Incalculable nefariousness swathed in failing light
(Groove 2)
Unbound I rise
The aleph-null was the lie
Far beyond the rubicon
In league with the Unlight!
(guitar solo)
(end run1)
As the external projection of the Will, I will embody the insurrection into time
With the cosmic singularity well within grasp, I pluck from the churning vortex a view into…
(end blast1)
The blinding splendor of the multileveled universe…
The linear continuum of uncountable infinities!
(end run 2)
A point between all other points and nowhere in between, with malice of forethought I pass through time unseen.
Where others failed before I was successful in my task, and so the ignis fatuus fades and I return to…
(end blast2)
The blinding splendor of the multileveled universe…
The linear continuum of uncountable infinities!
(outro)
With malice of forethought
I pass through time unseen!
Lyrics submitted by THECobra
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