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.
I'm hopeful for you
Go from one to a few
Train the horses I ride
Cut the air off with a knife
All the pastures of time
move around and combine
break the lost innocent child
fateful forces which collide
you are this
you are this
I will always be beat down
I will always be down
I will always be beat down
I will always be down
Go from one to a few
Train the horses I ride
Cut the air off with a knife
All the pastures of time
move around and combine
break the lost innocent child
fateful forces which collide
you are this
you are this
I will always be beat down
I will always be down
I will always be beat down
I will always be down
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This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
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it's like he's telling you a story of something that's happened (prob from his mind) and telling is that we can fight back from things or people etc that try to beat us down. makes perfect sense if you look at what happened to him with drugs but can also be put into our lives to seem better for us
1st I wish more people would comment this absolutely GREAT song.
2nd..to me, I can decipher the first 4 lines but after that i'm lost...so here goes what it means to me...
I am hopeful for you... --He wishes some luck or something like that.
Go from one to a few... --The previous, a girl maybe, broke up with him and is going out with other people.
Train the horses I ride... --OK in some kind of western philosiphy horses are used to symbolize the senses or something...SOOO he's trying to control his emotions.
Cut the air with a knife... --Now there's soo much tension he wants it to go away.
Does that seem the slightest bit reasonable.
on youtube theres a video of him explaining the song before he played it. its about this one time a spirit came to him and told him that there are two people in the world right now who can write music as well as John Lennon, and that both of them are fond of Mr. Frusciante.
The spirit then told John that he knows and is good friends with him, and that his name also starts with the same letter as his own name. However, the other one, John doesnt personally know. It could be you, someone in Arkansas or someone in Mongolia. He wrote the song for those two people in the world, especially that person he doesnt know.