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.
Oh, hey little brother
You've got so much to discover
Can't you conceptualize
What you're doing to our mother
Those drugs that you choose
Leave you left with the blues
Trust me I've been there
To me it's old news
Pending disaster
You're heading there faster
It's tearing me up
To know you get so plastered
Because you're caught up in the scene
At the age of nineteen
Maybe so was I at the age
But I had a dream
And those goddamn powdered drugs
They'll fill you with doubt
You're just getting sucked on up in it
And you have to break out
You blacked out on the floor
You told me, the next day they found you that way
Those damn medications had your back baby
It hurt when they took them all away
You're feeling so bad
You're looking for a place to land
Help me understand
How in hell it got so out of hand
I know that it's hard
But you're risking being permanently scared
You're hurting inside
So you're flirting with tragedy on the dark side
Those drugs that you choose
Leave you left with the blues
Trust me I've been there
To me it's old news
Hey little brother
You messed up another chance
Sooner or later you must take a stand
At the edge of it
All where you begin
To consume that product to its very end
How much time is left
Will you collapse
Will you confess you're in a spiritless void
Spinning into excess
You blacked out on the floor
You told me, the next day they found you that way
Those damn medications had your back baby
It hurt when they took them all away
You're feeling so bad
You're looking for a place to land
Help me understand
How in hell it got so out of hand, go
You've got so much to discover
Can't you conceptualize
What you're doing to our mother
Those drugs that you choose
Leave you left with the blues
Trust me I've been there
To me it's old news
Pending disaster
You're heading there faster
It's tearing me up
To know you get so plastered
Because you're caught up in the scene
At the age of nineteen
Maybe so was I at the age
But I had a dream
And those goddamn powdered drugs
They'll fill you with doubt
You're just getting sucked on up in it
And you have to break out
You blacked out on the floor
You told me, the next day they found you that way
Those damn medications had your back baby
It hurt when they took them all away
You're feeling so bad
You're looking for a place to land
Help me understand
How in hell it got so out of hand
I know that it's hard
But you're risking being permanently scared
You're hurting inside
So you're flirting with tragedy on the dark side
Those drugs that you choose
Leave you left with the blues
Trust me I've been there
To me it's old news
Hey little brother
You messed up another chance
Sooner or later you must take a stand
At the edge of it
All where you begin
To consume that product to its very end
How much time is left
Will you collapse
Will you confess you're in a spiritless void
Spinning into excess
You blacked out on the floor
You told me, the next day they found you that way
Those damn medications had your back baby
It hurt when they took them all away
You're feeling so bad
You're looking for a place to land
Help me understand
How in hell it got so out of hand, go
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i'm sure it's about zack, otherwise it wouldn't be called little brother.
Those drugs that you choose Leave you left with the blues Trust me I‘ve been there To me it's old news Pending disaster You’re heading there faster It's tearing me up To know you get so plastered
Because you’re caught up in the scene at the age of nineteen Maybe so was I at that age but I had a dream And those goddamn powder drugs They’ll fill you with doubt You’re just getting sucked on up in it And you have to break out
in homebrew, nick sings about doing a lot of drugs when he was 19; seems like his brother's going down the sam path.