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.
This criminal apathy's a sound that deafens all around
A happy tranquiliser for all
It's the clogging that is make us stall.
A lie that still endears you millions of years
Will one day cause the gospel to fall
And don't you think it's time that you stopped?
Here's to song! To scream!
Believe, believe me the rest will come naturally
Rest will come naturally.
When you've pissed your last and burned the
Candle fast, the rest will come naturally
End will come naturally.
Don't you know...
That drop in all the ocean
Is a prayer for all
The world brings him down and shuffles him around
Not a care for all the world, stares at all the world.
Cuts open his face there's not a drop to waste
We run him til his tiny heart pops
And don't you think it's time that we stopped?
All around and everywhere at once
A vacant care, why are you so concerned?
Why do you never learn to stop and look
Just wait for your point to be raised naturally
Truth will come naturally.
Don't you know...
That drop in all the ocean
Is a prayer for all
The world brings him down and shuffles him around
Not a care for all the world, stares at all the world.
All those pretty things you've traded
Now you crave but your world is for more
Now you're missing the war.
All those pretty things you've wasted
Now you crave but your world is for more
Now you're missing the war I'll be here
Eyes stick and eyes still wander round aimlessly
All you fucking pigs you have crucified us
Crucified us
Don't you think it's time that you
Stopped?
A happy tranquiliser for all
It's the clogging that is make us stall.
A lie that still endears you millions of years
Will one day cause the gospel to fall
And don't you think it's time that you stopped?
Here's to song! To scream!
Believe, believe me the rest will come naturally
Rest will come naturally.
When you've pissed your last and burned the
Candle fast, the rest will come naturally
End will come naturally.
Don't you know...
That drop in all the ocean
Is a prayer for all
The world brings him down and shuffles him around
Not a care for all the world, stares at all the world.
Cuts open his face there's not a drop to waste
We run him til his tiny heart pops
And don't you think it's time that we stopped?
All around and everywhere at once
A vacant care, why are you so concerned?
Why do you never learn to stop and look
Just wait for your point to be raised naturally
Truth will come naturally.
Don't you know...
That drop in all the ocean
Is a prayer for all
The world brings him down and shuffles him around
Not a care for all the world, stares at all the world.
All those pretty things you've traded
Now you crave but your world is for more
Now you're missing the war.
All those pretty things you've wasted
Now you crave but your world is for more
Now you're missing the war I'll be here
Eyes stick and eyes still wander round aimlessly
All you fucking pigs you have crucified us
Crucified us
Don't you think it's time that you
Stopped?
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You Can't Keep a Bad Man Down Lyrics as written by Steve Dees Mike Miller
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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