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 remember the first time I saw you
You were drifting down Crouse Ave
You looked like a hot-country-Vermont
Though my eyes were never that good
Your head seemed to hold itself up high
On that long thin neck of yours
You glanced back although we never had passed
You lit a cigarette and smiled
And when we kissed it was electric
A chemist made us for each other
But I was far from being your only one
My roommate said he'd seen you before
There's something missing in us
We try to make it whole
Though it never feels like it, I know you have it all
There's something missing in us
We long to make it whole
Though it never feels like it
I know you have it all
I know you have it all
We went to the social development dance
The whiskey went down easily
You kissed the best you had enormous breasts
And we wandered out really early
We were neighbors for a very short time
It all worked out quite wrong
When your boyfriend called
You pressed against the wall
"Oh I really gotta go now"
There's something missing in us
We try to make it whole
Though it never feels like it, I know you have it all
There's something missing in us
We long to make it whole
Though it never feels like it
I know you have it all
I know you have it all
We'd move away when the winters were gone
I think I saw you once in the city
I heard you were staying up North with a friend
And that your hair was falling out
I tried to find out what had happened to you
I Googled you in quotes got no results
I never learned how you had died
But I knew how you had lived
There's something missing in us
We tried to make it whole
Though it never felt like it I know you had it all
There's something missing in us
We longed to make it whole
Though it never felt like it, I know you had it all
I know you had it all
Friend my friend, you left us in the end.
You were drifting down Crouse Ave
You looked like a hot-country-Vermont
Though my eyes were never that good
Your head seemed to hold itself up high
On that long thin neck of yours
You glanced back although we never had passed
You lit a cigarette and smiled
And when we kissed it was electric
A chemist made us for each other
But I was far from being your only one
My roommate said he'd seen you before
There's something missing in us
We try to make it whole
Though it never feels like it, I know you have it all
There's something missing in us
We long to make it whole
Though it never feels like it
I know you have it all
I know you have it all
We went to the social development dance
The whiskey went down easily
You kissed the best you had enormous breasts
And we wandered out really early
We were neighbors for a very short time
It all worked out quite wrong
When your boyfriend called
You pressed against the wall
"Oh I really gotta go now"
There's something missing in us
We try to make it whole
Though it never feels like it, I know you have it all
There's something missing in us
We long to make it whole
Though it never feels like it
I know you have it all
I know you have it all
We'd move away when the winters were gone
I think I saw you once in the city
I heard you were staying up North with a friend
And that your hair was falling out
I tried to find out what had happened to you
I Googled you in quotes got no results
I never learned how you had died
But I knew how you had lived
There's something missing in us
We tried to make it whole
Though it never felt like it I know you had it all
There's something missing in us
We longed to make it whole
Though it never felt like it, I know you had it all
I know you had it all
Friend my friend, you left us in the end.
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I think this song is about a girl who was always looking for something new in her life, consequentially leading her to dating around a lot and looking for that "something missing in us" to make her whole.
Even going so far as to cheat on her boyfriend to find it ("When your boyfriend called You pressed against the wall 'Oh I really gotta go now'").
Then he lost touch with her over time and she died and he misses her and hopes she knew in the end that she had everything she ever could of wanted even if she never knew it.
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I saw him this past year. He said this is a song about a girl he knew at Syracuse University. Crouse Ave is a main street of SU.