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'd like to take
I'd like to feel wanted
Take a lemon, take a towel
I'd like to make a lot of generate the one-eyed males
Build 'em up and let 'em fall
Just lay 'em on and leave the linen tight
Take a lemon, take a towel
Generate lay 'em flat like monkey man
Leave 'em built right stand the time to know
It's like sin
Boris likes a lot of little things to kick
Mix every single one that he could ever pick
Boris bleed
Let friend spoon friend spoon man
Let's make
Let's feel wanted
Take a lemon take a towel
My shake makes monkey metal
Boris knows
And Boris likes it all
It's like sin
It's a killer
She's a killer maker
It reaches in and takes
From the back of your mind
I'm not awake, still 'live
When the bugs have a back and see the lions
A got a small
Got what they call a lack
A lack of halfway good bullets on my arm
I say I can't
But I really mean I won't
In their arm
Or maybe up a nole
I see it all, ahhh
See Boris has a whale
See him through my isles
He touches an affection
A mastermind
Manipulates to me my arms and legs and spine
He's got your brawl
I'm sinking till the wait
Like a spread on Jule
Hmmhhum
I'd like to feel wanted
Take a lemon, take a towel
I'd like to make a lot of generate the one-eyed males
Build 'em up and let 'em fall
Just lay 'em on and leave the linen tight
Take a lemon, take a towel
Generate lay 'em flat like monkey man
Leave 'em built right stand the time to know
It's like sin
Boris likes a lot of little things to kick
Mix every single one that he could ever pick
Boris bleed
Let friend spoon friend spoon man
Let's make
Let's feel wanted
Take a lemon take a towel
My shake makes monkey metal
Boris knows
And Boris likes it all
It's like sin
It's a killer
She's a killer maker
It reaches in and takes
From the back of your mind
I'm not awake, still 'live
When the bugs have a back and see the lions
A got a small
Got what they call a lack
A lack of halfway good bullets on my arm
I say I can't
But I really mean I won't
In their arm
Or maybe up a nole
I see it all, ahhh
See Boris has a whale
See him through my isles
He touches an affection
A mastermind
Manipulates to me my arms and legs and spine
He's got your brawl
I'm sinking till the wait
Like a spread on Jule
Hmmhhum
Lyrics submitted by OpiumForThePeople
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