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.
Well it's a different man in your face
And so out of place
That you can see anything there that you wish
Kiss my bliss
It's like I'm a welcoming freakshow doormat
Held in awe while growing fat in the head
This is where we all should see red
A bit fat wet slab of red
And I see that it makes me anti-everything
And I see that it makes me want to shed my skin
Shed my skin
Revelation leading to my psychosis and inspiration
Digest another hallucination, psychosis by recreation
Happy till the next deterioration
Psychosis
For you it's a different notion of music and motion
A dance of lights, a prosaic ocean
A delicate, nearly transparent creation
Of somebody's soul on the screen
Has caught you in between
Of somebody's life on the stage
And somebody's life on the frontpage
And this is where we all should see red
A big fat lauging mouth of red
And I see that it makes me anti-everything
And I see that it makes me want to shed my skin
Shed my skin
Revelation leading to my psychosis and inspiration
Digest another hallucination, psychosis by recreation
Happy till the next deterioration
Psychosis
I think I'm gonna start my own religion
Seems to be the recipe for a new sensation
Think it's gonna make a trendy revolution
Quite the contribution to the unnatural selection
x2
And I see that it makes me anti-everything
And I see that it makes me want to shed my skin
Shed my skin
Revelation leading to my psychosis and inspiration
Digest another hallucination, psychosis by recreation
Happy till the next deterioration
Psychosis
And so out of place
That you can see anything there that you wish
Kiss my bliss
It's like I'm a welcoming freakshow doormat
Held in awe while growing fat in the head
This is where we all should see red
A bit fat wet slab of red
And I see that it makes me anti-everything
And I see that it makes me want to shed my skin
Shed my skin
Revelation leading to my psychosis and inspiration
Digest another hallucination, psychosis by recreation
Happy till the next deterioration
Psychosis
For you it's a different notion of music and motion
A dance of lights, a prosaic ocean
A delicate, nearly transparent creation
Of somebody's soul on the screen
Has caught you in between
Of somebody's life on the stage
And somebody's life on the frontpage
And this is where we all should see red
A big fat lauging mouth of red
And I see that it makes me anti-everything
And I see that it makes me want to shed my skin
Shed my skin
Revelation leading to my psychosis and inspiration
Digest another hallucination, psychosis by recreation
Happy till the next deterioration
Psychosis
I think I'm gonna start my own religion
Seems to be the recipe for a new sensation
Think it's gonna make a trendy revolution
Quite the contribution to the unnatural selection
x2
And I see that it makes me anti-everything
And I see that it makes me want to shed my skin
Shed my skin
Revelation leading to my psychosis and inspiration
Digest another hallucination, psychosis by recreation
Happy till the next deterioration
Psychosis
Lyrics submitted by Superknark
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