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.
The scent of my hands is familiar
To fosterly men in their coats
Who guard not their spirits from fire
Fire, fire, fire, fire
Who speak with some tenderly coax
The tinge of my eyes is familiar
To fosterly men in their coats
Who fiend close, close, close to their closetly homes
And ruminate the walls up with ghosts
Ears ring and teeth click and
Ears ring and teeth click and
Ears, ears
Ears ring and teeth click and
Ears ring and teeth click and
Ears ring and teeth click and
Ears ring and teeth click and
Ears, ears ring
The air is familiar the sound is not still
Dead voices cover their moats
They fill the cloth totes with
The rustles of earth
And the crying, detritioning bones
The dust off my knuckles familiar
To culminated piles, to culminated piles of bones
That shift when the earth quakes and trembles, trembles
And quarries men up to their thrones
The scent of my skin is familiar
To fosterly men in their coats
Who guard not their spirits from fire
Fire, fire, fire, fire
Who speak with some tenderly, speak with some tenderly coax
The air is familiar the sound is not still
Dead voices cover their moats
They fill the cloth totes with
The rustles of earth
And the ladies that they have ungirthed
Ears ring and teeth click and
Ears ring and teeth click and
Ears ring and teeth click and
Ears ring and teeth click and
Ears, ears ring.
To fosterly men in their coats
Who guard not their spirits from fire
Fire, fire, fire, fire
Who speak with some tenderly coax
The tinge of my eyes is familiar
To fosterly men in their coats
Who fiend close, close, close to their closetly homes
And ruminate the walls up with ghosts
Ears ring and teeth click and
Ears ring and teeth click and
Ears, ears
Ears ring and teeth click and
Ears ring and teeth click and
Ears ring and teeth click and
Ears ring and teeth click and
Ears, ears ring
The air is familiar the sound is not still
Dead voices cover their moats
They fill the cloth totes with
The rustles of earth
And the crying, detritioning bones
The dust off my knuckles familiar
To culminated piles, to culminated piles of bones
That shift when the earth quakes and trembles, trembles
And quarries men up to their thrones
The scent of my skin is familiar
To fosterly men in their coats
Who guard not their spirits from fire
Fire, fire, fire, fire
Who speak with some tenderly, speak with some tenderly coax
The air is familiar the sound is not still
Dead voices cover their moats
They fill the cloth totes with
The rustles of earth
And the ladies that they have ungirthed
Ears ring and teeth click and
Ears ring and teeth click and
Ears ring and teeth click and
Ears ring and teeth click and
Ears, ears ring.
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