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.
We lay aligned
And move to disguise
With a soul below
Only the eyes above
Slowly and silently
Slip away
Sleep now in the soil
The dust in the debris
A stolen smoke assumes
Leaving the shell to atrophy
Meet with the earth
As the sober spirit sings
Leave, leave it behind
This truth is (harming you?)
Leave, leave it behind
(?)
Your life hereafter
Will cure all your troubles
And recast a history
Turn and walk away
And what of the father?
Will he (analyze?)
And what about the mother?
Will she discover the truth
Behind this life we're living
Now everything we've ever had
Is here for us
Now everything we've ever had
Is here for us
Don't worry 'bout the father
I'll take care of him
And as for the mother
She always loved her son
And you look like him
And move to disguise
With a soul below
Only the eyes above
Slowly and silently
Slip away
Sleep now in the soil
The dust in the debris
A stolen smoke assumes
Leaving the shell to atrophy
Meet with the earth
As the sober spirit sings
Leave, leave it behind
This truth is (harming you?)
Leave, leave it behind
(?)
Your life hereafter
Will cure all your troubles
And recast a history
Turn and walk away
And what of the father?
Will he (analyze?)
And what about the mother?
Will she discover the truth
Behind this life we're living
Now everything we've ever had
Is here for us
Now everything we've ever had
Is here for us
Don't worry 'bout the father
I'll take care of him
And as for the mother
She always loved her son
And you look like him
Lyrics submitted by JankyHoopty, edited by lukeeffect, TommLandin
Son Lyrics as written by Casey Blue Crescenzo
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(background vocals, i wish i could make them out)
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(background vocals)
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The song ends before the line "And what of the father".
Yeah, I wrote the lyrics from the leaked version so, it's kinda messed up.
Sounds like: "A stolen smoke ascends"
at first I thought this was about the boy killing his father
but it's about the boy killing off his past, morals, etc
I'm so slow lol
@k4zoo Actually, you were right. In the next song, Father, he poisons his father for various reasons.
leave this truth behind
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Also "dust in the debris". In the Bible it says we come from dust (and to dust we'll return).. I think He's rejecting the truth of these notions.