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.
Hello, are you drowning deep inside?
Does it make you want to cry?
All the words we said,
Were they meaningless,
Like the time we spent?
Hello, we’ve built this house of lies,
And we’ll tear it down in spite
Of the times we had,
All the good and bad
And it makes me want to scream
So wave goodbye to your old life
Cause we built this house on broken dreams
And we locked the keys inside
And take your plans and say we tried
Cause we built this house on broken dreams
We locked the keys inside
Hello, I’ve listened to your lines
And I wrote this down in spite
Of the times we had,
All the good and bad
And it makes me want to scream
So wave goodbye to your old life
Cause we built this house on broken dreams
And we locked the keys inside
And take your plans and say we tried
Cause we built this house on broken dreams
We locked the keys inside
Rupture this, I won’t close my eyes and follow you
Fracture that, I’m doing everything I wanted to
(Wave goodbye)
Rupture this, I won’t close my eyes and follow you
Fracture that, I’m doing everything I wanted to
(Say we tried)
Wave goodbye to your old life
We built this house on broken dreams
We locked the keys inside
Take your plans and say we tried
We built this house on broken dreams
We locked the keys inside
Yeah, we locked the keys inside
Does it make you want to cry?
All the words we said,
Were they meaningless,
Like the time we spent?
Hello, we’ve built this house of lies,
And we’ll tear it down in spite
Of the times we had,
All the good and bad
And it makes me want to scream
So wave goodbye to your old life
Cause we built this house on broken dreams
And we locked the keys inside
And take your plans and say we tried
Cause we built this house on broken dreams
We locked the keys inside
Hello, I’ve listened to your lines
And I wrote this down in spite
Of the times we had,
All the good and bad
And it makes me want to scream
So wave goodbye to your old life
Cause we built this house on broken dreams
And we locked the keys inside
And take your plans and say we tried
Cause we built this house on broken dreams
We locked the keys inside
Rupture this, I won’t close my eyes and follow you
Fracture that, I’m doing everything I wanted to
(Wave goodbye)
Rupture this, I won’t close my eyes and follow you
Fracture that, I’m doing everything I wanted to
(Say we tried)
Wave goodbye to your old life
We built this house on broken dreams
We locked the keys inside
Take your plans and say we tried
We built this house on broken dreams
We locked the keys inside
Yeah, we locked the keys inside
Lyrics submitted by exitxemergency
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