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.
[Shaggy 2 Dope:]
I step 1, (ahh) 2, (ahh) across the creaky floor
Spill some fuckin' blood then I'm out the back door
Takin' little trinkets, fingernails and pieces of skin
It's all for my rituals of cold milk mixed with gin
Stir it together gulp it down my eyes roll back
I'm chasin' that dragon but it's more like a hatchet attack
I'm peekin' through windows pickin' out the next clueless one
My fingers dig into her throat what have I done
[Jamie Madrox:]
I sleep on a bed of sharpened knives and toss and turn until I bleed
I eat from the bread of chosen life a thousand ghosts alive in me
Wickedly I'm heinous everything I do is odious
I'm tired of the normalcy total terror's my focus
I notice that the knife wounds are spellin out a name
To the average mother fucker I can be a little extreme
So I take the bloody corset and then light it for the emphasis
Try to call me sick but I'm seein' a horror specialist
[Chorus:]
So you wanna murder this y'all
That's right
And you wanna murder them
That's right
You should take a hit of this y'all
Why? Once they're dead they're not comin' back
[Blaze Ya Dead Homie:]
Death is imminent when you on the other end
With ya skull bein by the wrong side of the bull pit
Blood pours out from a splint up to my ankles in it
All over hammer and grip and so it slips
Discarded for the use of a rusty crowbar
To the horror of the courier who is forever scarred
The terror I inflict is often described as heinous
My history about it spreads out to leave them nameless
[Monoxide:]
Now ya shell shocked from all the blood that ya saw
Stainin' the walls and does surround you and it spreads to the halls
It's even drippin' from the ceiling inside
You get this feeling that the criminal's still creepin'
That's because I'm right behind you
Groin to gullet from your stomach to your mullet
Split ya clean like cantaloupe and let ya neighbors know what done it
America's most wanted for crimes against humanity
Heinous and the evil is formin the insanity
[Chorus:]
So you wanna murder this y'all
That's right
And you wanna murder them
That's right
You should take a hit of this y'all
Why? Once they're dead they're not comin' back
So you wanna murder this y'all
That's right
And you wanna murder them
That's right
Oooo ooo ooo
Why? Once they're dead they're not comin' back
[Violent J:]
The shit you callin' wicked is for kids and cheerleaders
This heinous shit right here is for demonous flesh eaters
It's rainin' blood in my bedroom a wet and bloody red
Snakes slither through my earholes in and out of my head
Got dent in this back a violent panic attack
Skitsofrantic and demoniacally I'm manic depressed
I'll stick an axe in yo chest
I'll kick some cracks in yo neck
I'll beat you into chunks like you was in a plane wreck heinously
[Chorus:]
So you wanna murder this y'all
That's right
And you wanna murder them
That's right
You should take a hit of this y'all
Why? Once they're dead they're not comin' back
So you wanna murder this y'all
That's right
And you wanna murder them
That's right
Oooo ooo ooo
Why? Once they're dead they're not comin' back
Oooo ooo ooo
Why?
Oooo ooo ooo
Once they're dead they're not comin' back
Oooo ooo ooo
Why?
Oooo ooo ooo
Once they're dead they're not comin' back
I step 1, (ahh) 2, (ahh) across the creaky floor
Spill some fuckin' blood then I'm out the back door
Takin' little trinkets, fingernails and pieces of skin
It's all for my rituals of cold milk mixed with gin
Stir it together gulp it down my eyes roll back
I'm chasin' that dragon but it's more like a hatchet attack
I'm peekin' through windows pickin' out the next clueless one
My fingers dig into her throat what have I done
[Jamie Madrox:]
I sleep on a bed of sharpened knives and toss and turn until I bleed
I eat from the bread of chosen life a thousand ghosts alive in me
Wickedly I'm heinous everything I do is odious
I'm tired of the normalcy total terror's my focus
I notice that the knife wounds are spellin out a name
To the average mother fucker I can be a little extreme
So I take the bloody corset and then light it for the emphasis
Try to call me sick but I'm seein' a horror specialist
[Chorus:]
So you wanna murder this y'all
That's right
And you wanna murder them
That's right
You should take a hit of this y'all
Why? Once they're dead they're not comin' back
[Blaze Ya Dead Homie:]
Death is imminent when you on the other end
With ya skull bein by the wrong side of the bull pit
Blood pours out from a splint up to my ankles in it
All over hammer and grip and so it slips
Discarded for the use of a rusty crowbar
To the horror of the courier who is forever scarred
The terror I inflict is often described as heinous
My history about it spreads out to leave them nameless
[Monoxide:]
Now ya shell shocked from all the blood that ya saw
Stainin' the walls and does surround you and it spreads to the halls
It's even drippin' from the ceiling inside
You get this feeling that the criminal's still creepin'
That's because I'm right behind you
Groin to gullet from your stomach to your mullet
Split ya clean like cantaloupe and let ya neighbors know what done it
America's most wanted for crimes against humanity
Heinous and the evil is formin the insanity
[Chorus:]
So you wanna murder this y'all
That's right
And you wanna murder them
That's right
You should take a hit of this y'all
Why? Once they're dead they're not comin' back
So you wanna murder this y'all
That's right
And you wanna murder them
That's right
Oooo ooo ooo
Why? Once they're dead they're not comin' back
[Violent J:]
The shit you callin' wicked is for kids and cheerleaders
This heinous shit right here is for demonous flesh eaters
It's rainin' blood in my bedroom a wet and bloody red
Snakes slither through my earholes in and out of my head
Got dent in this back a violent panic attack
Skitsofrantic and demoniacally I'm manic depressed
I'll stick an axe in yo chest
I'll kick some cracks in yo neck
I'll beat you into chunks like you was in a plane wreck heinously
[Chorus:]
So you wanna murder this y'all
That's right
And you wanna murder them
That's right
You should take a hit of this y'all
Why? Once they're dead they're not comin' back
So you wanna murder this y'all
That's right
And you wanna murder them
That's right
Oooo ooo ooo
Why? Once they're dead they're not comin' back
Oooo ooo ooo
Why?
Oooo ooo ooo
Once they're dead they're not comin' back
Oooo ooo ooo
Why?
Oooo ooo ooo
Once they're dead they're not comin' back
Lyrics submitted by th1rt3en
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