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.
Denigrate
Lacerate
Feed the poison in your veins
And withstand the collapse of a world of fools
All your fears
Torn apart
Like a sparkle in the dark
Be aware of yourself rip the decaying parts away
Enclosing ways of mind
Revive into my eyes
I feel your idle grasp around my neck fading away
Encoding waves of mind
Revive into my eyes
While I'm screaming now for a last time
Fragile and disfigured
Nemesis born from ashes
All the answers you seek lie locked in your mind
Raging windows blow the sadness storming
The spires of deceit
And still the answers you miss lie locked in your mind
Enclosing ways of mind
Revive into my eyes
I feel your idle grasp around my neck fading away
Encoding waves of mind
Revive into my eyes
While I'm screaming now for a last time
The face inside the mirror
With eyes so cold
Is staring right into you
Draining your soul
As it slowly reaches to your brain
So crystal clear
The awareness that your inner demons are unleashed
Grant my eyes to see
Faces I once knew now they look so hollow
Grant me hands to feel
My forgotten dreams in a world of shadows
Dominate
Desecrate
All the bastards in your way
Resurrecting unbound beyond common rules havoc, ascend!
From the spires of deceit
Spread your restless spirit and blacken the sun
Enclosing ways of mind
Revive into my eyes
I feel your idle grasp around my neck fading away
Encoding waves of mind
Revive into my eyes
While I'm screaming now for a last time
Lacerate
Feed the poison in your veins
And withstand the collapse of a world of fools
All your fears
Torn apart
Like a sparkle in the dark
Be aware of yourself rip the decaying parts away
Enclosing ways of mind
Revive into my eyes
I feel your idle grasp around my neck fading away
Encoding waves of mind
Revive into my eyes
While I'm screaming now for a last time
Fragile and disfigured
Nemesis born from ashes
All the answers you seek lie locked in your mind
Raging windows blow the sadness storming
The spires of deceit
And still the answers you miss lie locked in your mind
Enclosing ways of mind
Revive into my eyes
I feel your idle grasp around my neck fading away
Encoding waves of mind
Revive into my eyes
While I'm screaming now for a last time
The face inside the mirror
With eyes so cold
Is staring right into you
Draining your soul
As it slowly reaches to your brain
So crystal clear
The awareness that your inner demons are unleashed
Grant my eyes to see
Faces I once knew now they look so hollow
Grant me hands to feel
My forgotten dreams in a world of shadows
Dominate
Desecrate
All the bastards in your way
Resurrecting unbound beyond common rules havoc, ascend!
From the spires of deceit
Spread your restless spirit and blacken the sun
Enclosing ways of mind
Revive into my eyes
I feel your idle grasp around my neck fading away
Encoding waves of mind
Revive into my eyes
While I'm screaming now for a last time
Lyrics submitted by Pendulum
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Thanks for the corrections on this song, by far one of my favorites ever.