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.
Goes it comes and goes
Although you try to hide it always shows.
And I try never to pretend I know
You flick the safety catch and off we go.
Shoot him down, shoot him down
Reap and sow the only thing you've left to show.
Is faith against your faith
That carves a look of love into your face.
As if you are proud of this disgrace
Accelerate and charging through the days.
You try not to listen anyway.
Not this day
Regardless of the words I had to say
Reputation's not an alibi.
(My time is your time, there won't be a later)
What do you see when you close your eyes
Like royalty or magic numbers or
Popular opinion just to prove that you are right.
A sugar spoon feed in withdrawal
And still needing for more
I ask you why you try
The lights that guide you will burn and blind you.
No tomorrow
No tomorrow.
What cannot speak cannot lie
I beg for more patience but you're still wasting
I should not have to make apologies.
Find a face
Put it on
Pretend there's no tomorrow.
Although you try to hide it always shows.
And I try never to pretend I know
You flick the safety catch and off we go.
Shoot him down, shoot him down
Reap and sow the only thing you've left to show.
Is faith against your faith
That carves a look of love into your face.
As if you are proud of this disgrace
Accelerate and charging through the days.
You try not to listen anyway.
Not this day
Regardless of the words I had to say
Reputation's not an alibi.
(My time is your time, there won't be a later)
What do you see when you close your eyes
Like royalty or magic numbers or
Popular opinion just to prove that you are right.
A sugar spoon feed in withdrawal
And still needing for more
I ask you why you try
The lights that guide you will burn and blind you.
No tomorrow
No tomorrow.
What cannot speak cannot lie
I beg for more patience but you're still wasting
I should not have to make apologies.
Find a face
Put it on
Pretend there's no tomorrow.
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No Tomorrow Lyrics as written by Mark John Heron Jonathan Ross Ellis
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This feels to me like a religious person arguing to an atheists that he should be allowed to believe what he wants and "should not have to make apologies". It works visa versa also (with atheism), but I feel this way makes more sense. This could all be a load of rubbish though...
Can't help thinking that this is about closed-mindedness in relation to faith ("is faith against your faith", "you try not to listen anyway"). Though the atheist attempts to hide his distain for religion it "always shows".
The protagonist argues that the only thing the atheists do is "shoot down" religion with "popular opinion". He is also critical of the atheistic lifestyle of bright lights (vice - sex, drugs, money) that will burn (hell) and blind (mislead) you. The atheist is even "proud of this disgrace".
"No tomorrow" could be a reference to atheists who do not hold the religious belief that this planet is just a preparation for heaven ("tomorrow").
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My favourite line is the one I can't make fit into this crazy theory. "Reputation's not a alibi". My only thoughts are that the scientific improbability that God doesn't exist (reputation) is no excuse for a hedonistic lifestyle.
Phew. Ok. Does any of this make sense to anyone or have I gone bonkers from reading pmassey's comments?
Oh, and I'm an atheist.
i used that same exact interpretation in my psychology/sociology class
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"What cannot speak cannot lie I beg for more patience but you're still wasting I should not have to make apologies."
The thundering, powerful delivery of the final line is a starburst of intense vocal delivery. Pure awesome.
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I'm watching a video on youtube right now, it's live and he says in the beggening "this goes out for anyone who's had a love affair with rocky 3"
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