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.
Got a call
The one I've been waiting for
In the middle of the night
Said I know what you do and know its the same to you
Can't keep down the girl who loves music
Darkness dares to the diatone
As I sing myself to sleep
The most beauty I've seen
Lives in a dream
Where we laugh and want to live for the little things
Not even if I could get you back, I don't try
You weren't all that good, but I loved you like you were
Mine
Is it the only thing, I keep it like I see it
I feel like it always rains, a billion hearts stop
Bleeding
Alone and no one knows how to feel
And I party all the time
Yeah I know how to kill, but I hate how it feels
That everyones in love with someone else
And even if I could get you back, I don't try
You weren't all that good, but I loved you like you were
Mine
Is it the only thing, I keep it like I see it
I feel like it always rains, a billion hearts stop
Bleeding
The one I've been waiting for
In the middle of the night
Said I know what you do and know its the same to you
Can't keep down the girl who loves music
Darkness dares to the diatone
As I sing myself to sleep
The most beauty I've seen
Lives in a dream
Where we laugh and want to live for the little things
Not even if I could get you back, I don't try
You weren't all that good, but I loved you like you were
Mine
Is it the only thing, I keep it like I see it
I feel like it always rains, a billion hearts stop
Bleeding
Alone and no one knows how to feel
And I party all the time
Yeah I know how to kill, but I hate how it feels
That everyones in love with someone else
And even if I could get you back, I don't try
You weren't all that good, but I loved you like you were
Mine
Is it the only thing, I keep it like I see it
I feel like it always rains, a billion hearts stop
Bleeding
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Got a call the one I'd been waiting for in the middle of the night. Said I know what you do and know its the same to you can't keep down a girl who loves music. (She gets the call from her ex, the one she'd always hoped would want to come back to her, even after she had given up wanting to be with him. She finds herself saying to him that she's not interested in catching up, she knows what he does these days, and she isn't still down about him, she's found refuge in her true love, music.)
In the darkness dance to the dialtone as I sing myself to sleep. The most beauty I've seen lives in a dream where we laugh and want to live for the little things. (She's hung up on him, let him dance to the dialtone as she sings, undoubtedly dancing herself to her own song. Perhaps she is singing of what they could have been--our relationships are often one thing in our dreams and another in reality. The most beautiful thought she ever had was of the two of them living a way they never could: laughing together and living with appreciation for the little things, not the stresses that tore them apart.)
Not even if I could get you back, I don't try You weren't all that good, but I loved you like you were mine Here's the only thing, I keep it like a secret: although it always rains, a billion hearts stop bleeding. (She's found she's not interested in having him back. Things never did become what she dreamed they could be, in spite of her deep love. But here's the thing, and she holds it close as a sacred though: although the pain never quite recedes, billions have been heartbroken and yet they all do stop hurting as badly as in the beginning, when the yearning for what once was is strongest.)
Play solo(?), and no one knows how to fill, and I party all the time. Yeah I know how to kill, but I hate how it feels that everyone's in love with someone else. (Her therapeutic outpouring of music, which took his place in her life, has improved remarkably and now she knows how to kill an audience. But she hates how it feels to see all the people coming to her shows together, leaving together and in love, while she knows she's going back home with only the music to accompany her.)
And even if I could get you back, I don't try You weren't all that good, but I loved you like you were mine Here's the only thing, I keep it like a secret: although it always rains, a billion hearts stop bleeding.