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.
I take it in for just a while
Like how the coastline tends to smile
On the days with the waves, the lemonade
Cools my heart I still say
A girl she came and caught my eye
About the third week of July
I turn around and I found
One more
I said, "how about we get away"
Strange how we choose our company
She runs her fingers down my cheeks
She has a thing for mix CDs
I think she's growing on me
I spend my days just passing through
These roads they lead from me to you
Your gravity's what pulls me through
I know she's growing on me
Trying to keep myself together now
Trying to keep my head locked down
Trying to hold on to this love
And still she won't find me
I said "how about we get away"
She's like the girls I used to see
In all those black and white movies
She's my Georgia royalty
And now she's growing on me
This girl's the music in my room
Each day the reason why I move
She's the song that gets me through
And now she's growing on me
Trying to keep myself together now
Trying to keep my head locked down
Trying to hold on to this love
And still she won't find me
I said "how about we get away"
Spent two weeks on fire
Could my hopes get higher?
We'll burn at the sunrise
It's changing my life
Trying to keep myself together now
Trying to keep my head locked down
Trying to hold on to this love
And still she won't find me
I said "how about we get away"
Trying to keep myself together now
Trying to keep my head locked down
Trying to hold onto this love
And still she won't find me
How about we get away
Late nights
We burn out in bars
We live our lives like falling stars
The way I see we've come so far
And hey, I might stay
Step back to where we were
Feels like ten thousand years before
The moment that you shut the door
I'd say
I said "how about we get away"
Like how the coastline tends to smile
On the days with the waves, the lemonade
Cools my heart I still say
A girl she came and caught my eye
About the third week of July
I turn around and I found
One more
I said, "how about we get away"
Strange how we choose our company
She runs her fingers down my cheeks
She has a thing for mix CDs
I think she's growing on me
I spend my days just passing through
These roads they lead from me to you
Your gravity's what pulls me through
I know she's growing on me
Trying to keep myself together now
Trying to keep my head locked down
Trying to hold on to this love
And still she won't find me
I said "how about we get away"
She's like the girls I used to see
In all those black and white movies
She's my Georgia royalty
And now she's growing on me
This girl's the music in my room
Each day the reason why I move
She's the song that gets me through
And now she's growing on me
Trying to keep myself together now
Trying to keep my head locked down
Trying to hold on to this love
And still she won't find me
I said "how about we get away"
Spent two weeks on fire
Could my hopes get higher?
We'll burn at the sunrise
It's changing my life
Trying to keep myself together now
Trying to keep my head locked down
Trying to hold on to this love
And still she won't find me
I said "how about we get away"
Trying to keep myself together now
Trying to keep my head locked down
Trying to hold onto this love
And still she won't find me
How about we get away
Late nights
We burn out in bars
We live our lives like falling stars
The way I see we've come so far
And hey, I might stay
Step back to where we were
Feels like ten thousand years before
The moment that you shut the door
I'd say
I said "how about we get away"
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