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.
Manipulating masses, you talk out your asses
Do you know what you say?
Manufactured passes and everybody is asking
What we need today
I bring you new and there's no hook
I have no look, welcome to new
I'll bring you new and I'll recruit you
If you want to come with me scream out the top of your lungs
I want to be free
Can you sing, there is no hook
We have no look and just for once
You suddenly you are blind
And alone with your mind
And you say I'm free
Can you say I'm free?
We understand that it is difficult to
Under the dreams of destruction
Now strongest when you know it's true
I am asking you to go back
To the pyramidal tracks
Of where you know you do not like
A knowledge that has always been imparted to you
Such high and low and sweet you grow
I promise you that it's not far just
Hiding in the heart of the heart and all
Embracing everything from arms to charms, yeah
I guess that crystals all beneath me
No, they're only subliminally pushed away
We cannot read the, got to work
For what you're given in this world
Fear transmission you're my girls and my boys
?
You are not the puppets or the slaves or the toys
We are working towards the mark
Nothing else makes as much sense as this
So I will continue on my mission with the risk to be free
Come with me and our goals are transparent to the sea
And our holes are apparently pretend to me
I am free
Come with me
I am free
Come with me
I am free
Do you know what you say?
Manufactured passes and everybody is asking
What we need today
I bring you new and there's no hook
I have no look, welcome to new
I'll bring you new and I'll recruit you
If you want to come with me scream out the top of your lungs
I want to be free
Can you sing, there is no hook
We have no look and just for once
You suddenly you are blind
And alone with your mind
And you say I'm free
Can you say I'm free?
We understand that it is difficult to
Under the dreams of destruction
Now strongest when you know it's true
I am asking you to go back
To the pyramidal tracks
Of where you know you do not like
A knowledge that has always been imparted to you
Such high and low and sweet you grow
I promise you that it's not far just
Hiding in the heart of the heart and all
Embracing everything from arms to charms, yeah
I guess that crystals all beneath me
No, they're only subliminally pushed away
We cannot read the, got to work
For what you're given in this world
Fear transmission you're my girls and my boys
?
You are not the puppets or the slaves or the toys
We are working towards the mark
Nothing else makes as much sense as this
So I will continue on my mission with the risk to be free
Come with me and our goals are transparent to the sea
And our holes are apparently pretend to me
I am free
Come with me
I am free
Come with me
I am free
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I bring you new and there's no hook I have no look welcome to new
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can you sing
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I am asking you to go back to the pyramidal tracks of where you know you do not like the knowledge that has always been imparted to you
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