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.
Pluck all the wires from your skin, and toss them to the wind
Open your chest and let me in, I'll help you mend
While you carve our names in the ice on the sidewalk
And I do the same on the face of a cinderblock
Thousands of houses hug this road, but no one's home
All the picket fences look like bones, 'cause nothing grows
Snow covers everything in sight a ghostly white
Under that blanket there's no life, just blinking lights
And we peer through the glass of those empty households
The TVs are all still on. They're flashing images against the walls
Open your chest and let me in, I'll help you mend
While you carve our names in the ice on the sidewalk
And I do the same on the face of a cinderblock
Thousands of houses hug this road, but no one's home
All the picket fences look like bones, 'cause nothing grows
Snow covers everything in sight a ghostly white
Under that blanket there's no life, just blinking lights
And we peer through the glass of those empty households
The TVs are all still on. They're flashing images against the walls
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this song really puts a picture in my mind. it's kind of like everything is empty and dead. it might be similar to Grand Machine in the way that it's saying that people are a little too obsessed with material life.
this song is great.
the first part about the wires makes me think about common machines/objects that we use everyday that operate on electricity, and the guy singing the song just wants us to disconnect from all that for a second, and connect to a real, live human being.
also, the bit about the "houses hugging the road, but no one's home": it sounds like he's describing what happens to a lot of people, they fall into a routine and then begin to harbor feelings of apathy
i just realized, although i do like this song, i kind of feel like i'm beginning to slip into that category. thank you, electric president, for elevating me to a new higher level of consciousness.
i am ALIVE again!
alot of their lyrics seem to have that same impatience with the world tone. i love it, it makes you think of what we have become. great song
I just went running the other week through my neighborhood with this song on my ipod... all i can say is wow, it was powerful. I live in Wisconsin and right now we have snowbanks taller than me and as I was running, listening to this song I saw the following:
-No people outside- maybe like 2 people with snowblowers throughout my whole run -A T.V. on inside someones house, but i saw no people -A full moon Overall it just gave me an "awesomely creepy" feeling, it was just great. i can't wait to hear the new electric president cd.
Makes me think of the house in Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains."