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.
So first thing's first if you didn't know. That thing in the hearse is a fucking joke.
The truth of minds that dwell above is a plan to kill the dove.
But when they all appear to you, then they start to fade. Froze upon the path of all the names that we engrave
But closer to the moon, yeah across the ides of space, what if it only takes us back enough to save another day.
And so far now I've been wading in the waves of nescience, oh. Gonna try to ride the lightning on my own.
And never a demand to fill the soul, which brings me back to find the glue in a constant set of stones is a life all alone.
But when they all appear to you, then they start to fade. Froze upon the path of all the names that we engrave
Be careful what you do, oh and careful what you say. What if it only makes us laugh enough to brave another day.
Come father and know the use your sleeping son has had, his blood has dried upon the land, and still he's trying to wait for you.
This series of drones abused by the nescience in your head.
But when they all appear to you, then they start to fade. Froze upon the path of all the names that we engrave
But closer to the moon, yeah across the ides of space, what if it only takes us back enough to save another day.
Only through the fountainhead you'll find the truths of Vedic paradigm, the ones we know were never meant to sell.
To weather the bastions of infernal ties indeed will measure supernal highs, go and think as you may but the wind has filled the sails.
And oh, with all the demon from behind my mind there's no sleepless hells oh the deepest wells I've climbed up tooth and nail.
Oh under the tomb where every prince resides the soil sours, seeds of lies, that'll soon mature to counterpart Kal-El.
The truth of minds that dwell above is a plan to kill the dove.
But when they all appear to you, then they start to fade. Froze upon the path of all the names that we engrave
But closer to the moon, yeah across the ides of space, what if it only takes us back enough to save another day.
And so far now I've been wading in the waves of nescience, oh. Gonna try to ride the lightning on my own.
And never a demand to fill the soul, which brings me back to find the glue in a constant set of stones is a life all alone.
But when they all appear to you, then they start to fade. Froze upon the path of all the names that we engrave
Be careful what you do, oh and careful what you say. What if it only makes us laugh enough to brave another day.
Come father and know the use your sleeping son has had, his blood has dried upon the land, and still he's trying to wait for you.
This series of drones abused by the nescience in your head.
But when they all appear to you, then they start to fade. Froze upon the path of all the names that we engrave
But closer to the moon, yeah across the ides of space, what if it only takes us back enough to save another day.
Only through the fountainhead you'll find the truths of Vedic paradigm, the ones we know were never meant to sell.
To weather the bastions of infernal ties indeed will measure supernal highs, go and think as you may but the wind has filled the sails.
And oh, with all the demon from behind my mind there's no sleepless hells oh the deepest wells I've climbed up tooth and nail.
Oh under the tomb where every prince resides the soil sours, seeds of lies, that'll soon mature to counterpart Kal-El.
Lyrics submitted by miss_eff
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Damn... de-constructing this song will be fun...I believe it's all about life and death, and about the absurdity of our fear of death and belief that only one religion is "true". First of all, the opening line of "So first thing's first if you didn't know. That thing in the hearse is a fucking joke." is addressing the fact that the body is a mere host for either an immortal soul, or an immortal consciousness. This consciousness carries over to the next life, and could be something as simple as that once you die, you just go on having dreams and nightmares for all eternity inside your own mind. In the case of the immortal soul, you go onto a spiritual plain of some sort. The line "The truth of minds that dwell above is a plan to kill the dove." "The truth of minds that dwell above"is a line that I think further shows how insignificant he's trying to portray human flesh as being. The line about a "plan to kill a dove" I can only interpret as being about dissolving all religions into a general recognition that they are all the same. Doves are a common religious theme, as they are "pure."
He goes on to say "But when they all appear to you, then they start to fade. Froze upon the path of all the names that we engrave." Just when we finally get to know someone, when they finally "appear" to you, they die or "fade." We are expected to believe that they are simply waiting in a graveyard, or "froze" there, where their names are "engraved" on a headstone.