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.
Singing a song with your feet on the dashboard
The cigarette streaming into the night
These are the things that I want to remember
I want to remember you by
It won't come again
'Cause love is the end
Oh no, my friend
Love is the end
I took off my clothes and I ran to the ocean
Looking for somewhere to start anew
And when I was drowning in that lonely water
All I could think of was you
Whoa, my friend
Love is the end
So lets not pretend
'Cause love is the end
Take it back, don't let it die
Or raise again the fallen night
'Cause I still do, depend on you
So don't say those words, you wrung me through
Whoa, oh oh
Love is the end
So lets not pretend
'Cause love is the end
So I tread the only road
The only road I know
Nowhere to go, but home
Nowhere to go
Maybe our time is up
But still you can't look back
But all the principles of love
Don't save us
Don't save us
The cigarette streaming into the night
These are the things that I want to remember
I want to remember you by
It won't come again
'Cause love is the end
Oh no, my friend
Love is the end
I took off my clothes and I ran to the ocean
Looking for somewhere to start anew
And when I was drowning in that lonely water
All I could think of was you
Whoa, my friend
Love is the end
So lets not pretend
'Cause love is the end
Take it back, don't let it die
Or raise again the fallen night
'Cause I still do, depend on you
So don't say those words, you wrung me through
Whoa, oh oh
Love is the end
So lets not pretend
'Cause love is the end
So I tread the only road
The only road I know
Nowhere to go, but home
Nowhere to go
Maybe our time is up
But still you can't look back
But all the principles of love
Don't save us
Don't save us
Lyrics submitted by MLBfreek35, edited by wahh17, anafluabranca, Stevelloyd77, atinsley, willsouth, BORNintoKHAOS
Love Is the End Lyrics as written by Timothy James Rice-oxley Richard David Hughes
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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"Now is the time of our comfort and plenty These are the days we've been working for Nothing can touch us, and nothing can hurt us And nothing goes wrong anymore
Singing a song with your feet on the dashboard The cigarette streaming into the night These are the things that I want to remember I want to remember you by"
these two stanzas tell of a relationship that is flourishing and that is going perfectly and to plan... memories are being made and love is plenty...
after the chorus... the song takes a tragic turn... wherein the person in the song is dumped... and experiences the shock of the breakup... and experiences melancholy
"I took off my clothes and I ran to the ocean Looking for somewhere to start a-new And when I was drowning in that holy water All I could think of was you"
this stanza leads me to think the person is so distraught at the break up that he rushes into commiting suicide but cannot bring himself to drown himself.
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in the next stanza he could be begging to his former partner to be "taken back" and begs his partner to reconsider...
Take it back, don't let it die Or rage against the fallen night Cos I still do, depend on you So don't say those words, that wrung me through
"those words" refer to him being told he is dumped.
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the final stanza is extremely powerful.. it shows that the man has lost the one light in his life... and now that that light has been diminished.. he is lost in the world and does not know what to do or where to go...
So I tread the only road The only road I know Nowhere to go, but home Nowhere to go Maybe our time is up But still you can't look back But all the principles of love Don't say those words Don't say those words Don't say those words Don't say those words
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