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.
north star
bring luck
call the nurse i'm dropping in anchor
making stops at the pass
caught in the mix of the two with an offer
left with three times the guilt
please don't decide to roll your eyes
i'm speaking from my heart
she bought a book and now she's
reading much more into things
dear searched and found now little
hanging on your every word(purchased more than gained at will)
please don't decide to roll your eyes
i'm speaking from my heart
littles known of the heart breaking silence
causing loss before peals
jerking through the side winding admission
and gathered berries in bed
take it i left it
slipped and stored in vein
held by the mischief
with one still left to blame
a flow, a flow in store
left with an angel
until the sirens rang.
bring luck
call the nurse i'm dropping in anchor
making stops at the pass
caught in the mix of the two with an offer
left with three times the guilt
please don't decide to roll your eyes
i'm speaking from my heart
she bought a book and now she's
reading much more into things
dear searched and found now little
hanging on your every word(purchased more than gained at will)
please don't decide to roll your eyes
i'm speaking from my heart
littles known of the heart breaking silence
causing loss before peals
jerking through the side winding admission
and gathered berries in bed
take it i left it
slipped and stored in vein
held by the mischief
with one still left to blame
a flow, a flow in store
left with an angel
until the sirens rang.
Lyrics submitted by Codfish
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Over all, I think this song is about a love affair gone wrong. :9
anyway[time for the usual epic line-by-line approach, eh?]
North Star, bring luck.[wishing on a star, for luck. I imagine.]
Call the nurse, I'm dropping in anchor.[ Making stops at the pass.[this line I think could be talking about awkward flirting, a play on 'making a pass'] Caught in the mix of the two with an offer[perhaps caught in the middle of an affair/relationship, and is asked out by one of the two.] Left with three times the guilt.[I think this could be looking back in hindsight. Explained later in the epicness]
please don't decide to roll your eyes i'm speaking from my heart[I think this is talking about a nervous love confession.] she bought a book and now she's reading much more into things[Perhaps ‘she’ started to take greater notice of things when he made his confession. shrug] dear searched and found now little[Looked for the chemistry, but can’t find enough for it to work, but he still wants it to work.] hanging on your every word[listening to every word with a wary ear?] (purchased more than gained at will)[perhaps forced into bribery, rather than getting a reciprocation unaided?] please don't decide to roll your eyes i'm speaking from my heart
littles known of the heart breaking silence causing loss before peals[Perhaps the person he confessed to died before they could be married, like the peals of wedding bells?] jerking through the side winding admission[Feeling numb and trying to admit she’s gone?] and gathered berries in bed[getting into another affair. I believe the ‘gathered berries’ is a twist on the term ‘popping a cherry’??]
take it i left it[all yours now.] slipped and stored in vain[His veneer slipped, and he tried to store those memories away again?] held by the mischief[fascinated with the idea of keeping everybody in the dark about his true feelings.] with one still left to blame[Blamed everybody exept himself for something, or what happened.]
a flow, a flow in store.[possibly...he’s going to have to deal with it, and cries/sobs when he does, and it is inevitable?]
left with an angel until the sirens rang.[it was all a dream. ‘Sirens’ is probably a reference to the blare of an alarm clock.]
Well, here’s my explanation of “Left with three times the guilt”. I believe that he feels guiltier than he should, because he used some underhanded method to get what he wanted, and can’t take back what he did.