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.
You were once a boy in tattered jeans
With skin dark by the sun
Eyes so wide and deep with reckless dreams
To carry you along
You were always talking 'bout the sea
The brilliant mystic view
You never seemed to shrink from mystery
That was life to you
And you would find a resting place
Where stars would light the room
And trees would bend with sacred grace
Beneath the silver moon
I see you in this height so sad and sweet
Your spirit burning bright
I know he whispers still in places deep
With flaming words of light
And you would find a resting place
Where stars would light the room
And trees would bend with sacred grace
Beneath the silver moon
And you would find a resting place
Where stars would light the room
And trees would bend with sacred grace
Beneath the silver moon
With skin dark by the sun
Eyes so wide and deep with reckless dreams
To carry you along
You were always talking 'bout the sea
The brilliant mystic view
You never seemed to shrink from mystery
That was life to you
And you would find a resting place
Where stars would light the room
And trees would bend with sacred grace
Beneath the silver moon
I see you in this height so sad and sweet
Your spirit burning bright
I know he whispers still in places deep
With flaming words of light
And you would find a resting place
Where stars would light the room
And trees would bend with sacred grace
Beneath the silver moon
And you would find a resting place
Where stars would light the room
And trees would bend with sacred grace
Beneath the silver moon
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The best part of this song is when Matthew says,
"I see you in this height so sad and sweet Your spirit burning bright I know he whispers still in places deep With flaming words of light"
It seems as if, from his older perspective (height) and looking back on (or down at) his boyhood, it is both sad and sweet to him how innocent and lively he used to be. His "spirit burned bright". The latter two lines appear to elude to the "child within" this grown man, who still whispers quietly with the lively words, dreams and wonders he once used to have and that used to fill his life and being completely.
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