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 better think of my answers now
Because I know the questions will be asked
Like if I brought the joy I found
In the confessions of a mask
The tip of my tongue's already
Touching the top of my mouth
It's meaning manifest the mercy
Burning down, burning down
Burning down, burning down
Burning down, burning down
Burning down the house
(It's true that tactless teem totem-poles)
Turn tolerance to tried taboos
(It's true that a bullet never knocks on the door)
It's about to come crashing through
(It's true that tactless teem totem-poles)
Turn tolerance to tried taboos
(It's true that a bullet never knocks on the door)
It's about to come crashing down
I'm walking one last mile in big steps as your alter-wine
(Walking one last mile) I'm doing it in tattered shoes that aren't even mine
Because my own are in a box locked up with possessions I can't have
Like a gunman with his future and the prison priest's golden calf
(Walking one last mile)
(Walking one last mile)
With blindfolds aside, I'd probably still close my eyes
I try to feel for a trembling fetal life inside
Of a shotgun barrel (shotgun barrel) that's about to make me bleed
Like an ulcer in the stomach of a (beast, beast) beast
Like a little girl on a bed that was years ago deceased
Resurrected last night with a letter she can't trace
(Letters they can't trace)
Like a little girl on a bed that was years ago deceased
Resurrected last night with a letter she can't trace
Resurrected to be killed then maybe born again
I'll always be Kezia as long as any hope remains
Resurrected (resurrected) to be killed then maybe born again (born again)
I'll always be Kezia as long as any hope
(Resurrected to be killed then maybe born again)
(I'll always be Kezia as long as any hope remains)
Because I know the questions will be asked
Like if I brought the joy I found
In the confessions of a mask
The tip of my tongue's already
Touching the top of my mouth
It's meaning manifest the mercy
Burning down, burning down
Burning down, burning down
Burning down, burning down
Burning down the house
(It's true that tactless teem totem-poles)
Turn tolerance to tried taboos
(It's true that a bullet never knocks on the door)
It's about to come crashing through
(It's true that tactless teem totem-poles)
Turn tolerance to tried taboos
(It's true that a bullet never knocks on the door)
It's about to come crashing down
I'm walking one last mile in big steps as your alter-wine
(Walking one last mile) I'm doing it in tattered shoes that aren't even mine
Because my own are in a box locked up with possessions I can't have
Like a gunman with his future and the prison priest's golden calf
(Walking one last mile)
(Walking one last mile)
With blindfolds aside, I'd probably still close my eyes
I try to feel for a trembling fetal life inside
Of a shotgun barrel (shotgun barrel) that's about to make me bleed
Like an ulcer in the stomach of a (beast, beast) beast
Like a little girl on a bed that was years ago deceased
Resurrected last night with a letter she can't trace
(Letters they can't trace)
Like a little girl on a bed that was years ago deceased
Resurrected last night with a letter she can't trace
Resurrected to be killed then maybe born again
I'll always be Kezia as long as any hope remains
Resurrected (resurrected) to be killed then maybe born again (born again)
I'll always be Kezia as long as any hope
(Resurrected to be killed then maybe born again)
(I'll always be Kezia as long as any hope remains)
Lyrics submitted by guitarhero, edited by TusTus
The Divine Suicide of K. Lyrics as written by Lucas Hoskin Arif Mirabodlbaghi
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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