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.
You're talking shit
You're seen to download far
Inform you to salvage one
Before you make it up you see..
You're lying to impress
& thats why you fall
Like how can you talk about?
"no point in burning..."?
Collect call
Sent to
Meet you
Sent to
Skinning
Funning
Why?
Like how can you talk about?
"No point in burning heart and soul away"
I don't buy your breaking up
You're cutting up
Why?
If you don't want to see me out
Why do you call?
Like how can you talk about?
"No point in burning heart and soul away"
I don't buy your breaking up
You're cutting up
8 bit's the way
We're 50000 strong
All shouting out
Why..?
You're seen to download far
Inform you to salvage one
Before you make it up you see..
You're lying to impress
& thats why you fall
Like how can you talk about?
"no point in burning..."?
Collect call
Sent to
Meet you
Sent to
Skinning
Funning
Why?
Like how can you talk about?
"No point in burning heart and soul away"
I don't buy your breaking up
You're cutting up
Why?
If you don't want to see me out
Why do you call?
Like how can you talk about?
"No point in burning heart and soul away"
I don't buy your breaking up
You're cutting up
8 bit's the way
We're 50000 strong
All shouting out
Why..?
Lyrics submitted by xKissxHerxBruisesx
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This song is amazing.. too bad the lyrics don't make all that much sense.
Dont know what to make of it I Think its more famous becuase of the sabrepulse remix though ^o^
I think the song is about a guy and a girl who just broke up and all she's done is "talk shit". She then tells everyone things that didn't happen, "lying to impress" which is why she "falls" in his eyes. But he doesn't care, because it's a "collect call", which could mean she's always just made things harder for him. He doesn't want to hear it anymore, so he just lets her go.
She tells him there's "no point in burning heart and soul away", meaning she's SAYING they should still be friends, but at the same time she's doing the opposite ("Like how can you talk about"). Which leads to him not "buying" her reason for "breaking up".
So he asks her why she acts one way then the other, thinking she still likes him ("If you don't want to see me out, why do you call?").
The last verse seems to be him letting go of her, and stating that there are other's like him (referencing the 8-bit music lovers) still not getting the original reason of why she did all this in the first place, "all shouting why?".
I'm probably wrong as hell, but in general it feels like a breakup song.
How can these possibly be the lyrics...<br /> they sound nothing like the song, yet they are the<br /> same at every lyrics site.<br /> <br /> By golly I'm gonna figure out the correct lyrics even if it kills me.
ooops sorry...haha<br /> that a response to your post.<br /> It was a response to the lyrics as a whole
meh seems right at least how i all ways saw the song you just put it to more detail ha ha
It sound more like: You're talking shit, You don't see it's all over Inform you to salvage one, Before you make it up, you see You lying to impress him, that's why you fall
Like, how can you talk about No point in burning?
Collect call, sent to meet you Sent to skin him, falling, How?
Like, how can you talk about No point in burning heart and soul away? How 'bout you breaking up? You're cutting out, How?
Collect call, sent to meet you Sent to skin him, falling, How?
If you don't want to see me hurt, why do you call?
Like, how can you talk about No point in burning heart and soul away? How 'bout you breaking up? You're cutting out, How?
8-bit's the way We're fifty-thousand strong, all shouting out, How?
Too bad it's not more sensical.
@Lamstar, Some people copy lyrics from other sites, so it'd make sense that'd they all say the same thing.
I dated the guy that wrote it and erm had an encounter with the guy that remixed it... I could ask them