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.
(Find me some) Drugs, drugs, drugs, drugs
(Find me some) Drugs, drugs, drugs, drugs
Prescription pills, Darvocet, Oxycontin, mescaline
And a whole array of synthetic medicine
Crystal glass, Ketamine, heroin, cyanide dream
And a whole generation laughs
(Hahahahaha)
It's not the drugs that killed your mom
It's not the blade that raped your brother
A whole world is suffering (suffering)
Can't be the love we lost as children (we lost as children)
Can't be the price of a thousand prostitute graves (we lost our lives)
Nobody loves here everybody hates
I will survive (Why are you dancing with the devil?)
I will survive (Why are you dancing with the devil?)
When the sun sets down on my heart (Dance with the devil)
When the sun sets down I'm a star
Why dance with the devil, when you have me?
I feel so alone, in a state of depression, at an all-time low
Closed in deception where nobody would know
Lysergic acid, psychoactive, morphine, coke, sodomy
At war with society (Charge!)
Self-medication, codeine supply, self-mutilation
Sex taught suicide
It's not the drug that killed my soul
Not the pain of losing blood
In a ghost town paid symphony
Can't be the love we lost as children (we lost as children)
Can't be the price of fucking saving your skin (we lost our lives)
Nobody loves here, everybody hates
I will survive (Why are you dancing with the devil?)
I will survive (Why are you dancing with the devil?)
When the sun sets down on my heart (dance with the devil)
When the sun sets down I'm a star (Why don't you take it out?)
I will survive (Why are you dancing with the devil?)
I will survive (Why are you dancing with the devil?)
When the sun sets down on my heart (Dance with the devil)
When the sun sets down I'm a star
Why dance with the devil when you have me? (When you have me corrupt!)
Mushrooms, crack, my mind is cracked my mind is trapped, my spine is tapped
A little bit of lean
It feels like I'm on cyanide, methamphetamines
Yurn churn nightmares dreams
Heaven, hell, help me, please
Screams, yell, yearning, laughing
Anything can happen, I feel so trapped in
Nobody loves me, everybody hates
Suicidal minds stay stepping up the plate
Poison in my veins, nobody cares
If I live, If I die no reason to be here
… so ease the pain
Vicodin to settle down
I'm going crazy I've got to settle in
I feel a little hazy, a little heroin
I close my eyes never sold it begin
(Find me some) Drugs, drugs, drugs, drugs
Prescription pills, Darvocet, Oxycontin, mescaline
And a whole array of synthetic medicine
Crystal glass, Ketamine, heroin, cyanide dream
And a whole generation laughs
(Hahahahaha)
It's not the drugs that killed your mom
It's not the blade that raped your brother
A whole world is suffering (suffering)
Can't be the love we lost as children (we lost as children)
Can't be the price of a thousand prostitute graves (we lost our lives)
Nobody loves here everybody hates
I will survive (Why are you dancing with the devil?)
I will survive (Why are you dancing with the devil?)
When the sun sets down on my heart (Dance with the devil)
When the sun sets down I'm a star
Why dance with the devil, when you have me?
I feel so alone, in a state of depression, at an all-time low
Closed in deception where nobody would know
Lysergic acid, psychoactive, morphine, coke, sodomy
At war with society (Charge!)
Self-medication, codeine supply, self-mutilation
Sex taught suicide
It's not the drug that killed my soul
Not the pain of losing blood
In a ghost town paid symphony
Can't be the love we lost as children (we lost as children)
Can't be the price of fucking saving your skin (we lost our lives)
Nobody loves here, everybody hates
I will survive (Why are you dancing with the devil?)
I will survive (Why are you dancing with the devil?)
When the sun sets down on my heart (dance with the devil)
When the sun sets down I'm a star (Why don't you take it out?)
I will survive (Why are you dancing with the devil?)
I will survive (Why are you dancing with the devil?)
When the sun sets down on my heart (Dance with the devil)
When the sun sets down I'm a star
Why dance with the devil when you have me? (When you have me corrupt!)
Mushrooms, crack, my mind is cracked my mind is trapped, my spine is tapped
A little bit of lean
It feels like I'm on cyanide, methamphetamines
Yurn churn nightmares dreams
Heaven, hell, help me, please
Screams, yell, yearning, laughing
Anything can happen, I feel so trapped in
Nobody loves me, everybody hates
Suicidal minds stay stepping up the plate
Poison in my veins, nobody cares
If I live, If I die no reason to be here
… so ease the pain
Vicodin to settle down
I'm going crazy I've got to settle in
I feel a little hazy, a little heroin
I close my eyes never sold it begin
Lyrics submitted by Draven3110, edited by Nightwrath
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(Find me some) Drugs, drugs, drugs, drugs (Find me some) Drugs, drugs, drugs, drugs
Prescription pills, darvocet, Oxycontin, mesca-line And a whole array of synthetic medicine Crystal glass, Ketamine, heroin, cyanide dream And a whole generation laughs (Hahahahaha)
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