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 am walking through your streets
I am looking in your windows
I am elemental now, you'll never even know I'm there
I am watching over you, I am living in the shadows
I am just a word to you, but I am very real and cold
Cold to all of this
Cold to how you feel
Cold to all your lucid reason
I AM EVERYTHING I AM ANYTHING I AM AUTOMATIC
I AM YESTERDAY I AM EVERYDAY I AM GONNA BE
I am all there is to know, I am all that you've forgotten
I am enigmatic now, you never even knew my name
I am dressed in tragedy, I am by design immortal
I am just the last one left, but I am always here and old
Old and very strong
Old as all you feel
Old as all the world around you
I AM EVERYTHING I AM ANYTHING I AM AUTOMATIC
I AM YESTERDAY I AM EVERYDAY I AM GONNA BE
REBORN
I am just a secret now, I am just a vague illusion
I'm a lie you tell yourself that you never truly did believe
I'm a whisper in the dark, I'm a victim and the killer
I am almost ready now, but you insist I don't exist
That I don't exist- that I don't exist, that I don't EXIST
I AM EVERYTHING I AM ANYTHING I AM AUTOMATIC
I AM YESTERDAY I AM EVERYDAY I AM GONNA BE
REBORN
I am looking in your windows
I am elemental now, you'll never even know I'm there
I am watching over you, I am living in the shadows
I am just a word to you, but I am very real and cold
Cold to all of this
Cold to how you feel
Cold to all your lucid reason
I AM EVERYTHING I AM ANYTHING I AM AUTOMATIC
I AM YESTERDAY I AM EVERYDAY I AM GONNA BE
I am all there is to know, I am all that you've forgotten
I am enigmatic now, you never even knew my name
I am dressed in tragedy, I am by design immortal
I am just the last one left, but I am always here and old
Old and very strong
Old as all you feel
Old as all the world around you
I AM EVERYTHING I AM ANYTHING I AM AUTOMATIC
I AM YESTERDAY I AM EVERYDAY I AM GONNA BE
REBORN
I am just a secret now, I am just a vague illusion
I'm a lie you tell yourself that you never truly did believe
I'm a whisper in the dark, I'm a victim and the killer
I am almost ready now, but you insist I don't exist
That I don't exist- that I don't exist, that I don't EXIST
I AM EVERYTHING I AM ANYTHING I AM AUTOMATIC
I AM YESTERDAY I AM EVERYDAY I AM GONNA BE
REBORN
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i agree with pakana sielu. reborn could be the aftermath of vermilion. as corey quoted, "vermilion is the anticipation and the build-up. pt.2 is the guilt of having lived through it" i guess you could say reborn is picking up the pieces of pt.2 and realizing that life goes on
As I see it, even thought it's taking the easy way out, Corey's talking about God. I don't know where Corey stands on contangibles, but as a non believer, this looks like a semi-sarcastic look at God.
this song is talking of nature(Demeter). Nature is elemental, and old as exsistance. In a weird way everyone is same nature. So maybe this song is saying i am immortal because i will always go on.
I think his not refering God but his somehow using the idea of an entity as a metaphorical way of expresing something, but I have no idea about what in the hell is this
this song is about vampires.. how cant u see this? its pretty damn obvious.
vampires are just the metaphor.<br /> life on earth = hell.<br /> reborn to this earth again repeatedly in any shape = eternal suffering or hell.
When i listen to this song i think its about God or Jesus, "im elemental, you'll never know im there" "i am watching over you..I am just a word to you" " cold to how you feel, cold to all your loose reason" I am everything i am anything, i mean come guys, it could mean alot of things, but i really wish corey would make an acct on here and really answer these questions for us...let us know if were really getting his meaning or if were just making the song interpret what we want it to mean.
Could be about Jesus... Could be about himself...
"Old and very strong Old as all you feel Old as all the world around you" Could be very religious... Or it could be a metaphor of how touring has changed him into feeling older than he is... But it doesn't mean he's gonna retire. He's gonna keep rocking until he can't stop. No one really believed that he would make it in music. Now look at him. People tried to say "Nope. He doesn't exist at all. He's a black sheep..." and he's saying
"I am just a secret now I am just a vague illusion I'm a lie you tell yourself that you never truly did believe I'm a whisper in the dark I'm a victim, and the killer I am almost ready now but you insist I don't exist"
He had been secretly planning his... 'Musical Attack' so to say. They can say he doesn't exist all they want, but that won't stop him from screaming "MOTHERFUCKER" in everyone's face... I hope you get where I'm going. The song is very distracting.
If you guys havn't heard this song yet...
The title is the meaning of the song. I like it a lot.
This song is just awesome. To me it represents the darker side that we have inside us and that we push down and try to forget. The song is sang by that character who says tha he will be REBORN