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.
Whose there, coming up slowly?
Starting to grow on me
Perfect and lonely
Go there, why should I go there?
I'll let it go and let her explode there
Shake these suffragette stories
Witches and warnings that tether the holding
Control me, hit me and scold me
The hurtful unholy, it's endless and endless
This way and that way
How's it going to be
And what's wrong with me now?
When I can't help to be
Who's there, shaking, I'm shaking
Trusted and fading, tell me you hate it
Know me, ghost in your story
Second unholy, takes one to know me
Who's there?
Suffered and senseless
Committed to kill this whispers and witness
Control me, hit me and scold me
The hurtful unholy, it's endless and endless
This way and that way
How's it going to be
And what's wrong with me now?]
When I can't help to be this way and that way
No one knows but everyone's sure that
This way or that way, how's it going to be?
Give up the ghost
Hide here with me and I'll die here for you
And I'll hide here with me and I'll give up the ghost
Who's there, coming up slowly?
Starting to grow on me
Perfect and only
Go there, why should I go there?
What's there to show?
When everyone knows it, they know
Starting to grow on me
Perfect and lonely
Go there, why should I go there?
I'll let it go and let her explode there
Shake these suffragette stories
Witches and warnings that tether the holding
Control me, hit me and scold me
The hurtful unholy, it's endless and endless
This way and that way
How's it going to be
And what's wrong with me now?
When I can't help to be
Who's there, shaking, I'm shaking
Trusted and fading, tell me you hate it
Know me, ghost in your story
Second unholy, takes one to know me
Who's there?
Suffered and senseless
Committed to kill this whispers and witness
Control me, hit me and scold me
The hurtful unholy, it's endless and endless
This way and that way
How's it going to be
And what's wrong with me now?]
When I can't help to be this way and that way
No one knows but everyone's sure that
This way or that way, how's it going to be?
Give up the ghost
Hide here with me and I'll die here for you
And I'll hide here with me and I'll give up the ghost
Who's there, coming up slowly?
Starting to grow on me
Perfect and only
Go there, why should I go there?
What's there to show?
When everyone knows it, they know
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Upside Down Cross Lyrics as written by Mike Fox Caroline Kawa
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i agree:)