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.
For the great blue cold now reigns...
adamantly taking hold
of every bruised, battered heart
and every slack, weary limb knuckles down
For we shall bend to the cause
the open sea awaits us all
surrender breeds no remorse
we suffered through the ordeal
they came to get me in my dreams
to take me down to the ocean
only in death shall we be sage
and see that heaven lies behind
and we shall quake
reading those words on this book's final page:
For the great blue cold now reigns
For the great blue cold now reigns
certain and endless, it seemed
but every petty grain of sand
and every bone will be washed out to the sea
numbness unfurls
in each and every brain
the coast now is clear,
the air is thin
and as your own plot unfolds
it gets more difficult to bribe
the magistrates of your own psyche
what will you say
when all the lights go dim
and the cup of disappointment is full to the brim?
For the great blue cold now reigns
For the great blue cold now reigns
For the great blue cold now reigns
For the great blue cold now reigns
only in death shall we be sage
when every ocean has dessicated
and we shall quake, reading those words
on this book's last page:
For the great blue cold now reigns
For the great blue cold now reigns
adamantly taking hold
of every bruised, battered heart
and every slack, weary limb knuckles down
For we shall bend to the cause
the open sea awaits us all
surrender breeds no remorse
we suffered through the ordeal
they came to get me in my dreams
to take me down to the ocean
only in death shall we be sage
and see that heaven lies behind
and we shall quake
reading those words on this book's final page:
For the great blue cold now reigns
For the great blue cold now reigns
certain and endless, it seemed
but every petty grain of sand
and every bone will be washed out to the sea
numbness unfurls
in each and every brain
the coast now is clear,
the air is thin
and as your own plot unfolds
it gets more difficult to bribe
the magistrates of your own psyche
what will you say
when all the lights go dim
and the cup of disappointment is full to the brim?
For the great blue cold now reigns
For the great blue cold now reigns
For the great blue cold now reigns
For the great blue cold now reigns
only in death shall we be sage
when every ocean has dessicated
and we shall quake, reading those words
on this book's last page:
For the great blue cold now reigns
For the great blue cold now reigns
Lyrics submitted by snoopyhasadeathwish
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