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.
I cannot get up by the howling cry
Just justify my longing to die,
Bury me down at last,
I think about it in the shadows and cry!
Can scissors heal a man torn of tears,
A fading I fear inside.
The reaper in sheet will stand by me
I'm dreaming, I'm wearing a black dress that night!
I'm just a being tonight,
And still I'm dressed so black, oh yeah!
Maybe I'm just blind,
But maybe I should try
Can't you see why the vision is calling you?
I got the one, the dream of horror!
Dreams of blood, dreams of war!
Rudest eyes have seen the fright
Welcome to the eternal night!
You won't be a butcher
No, you won't be at last
Somebody's the trigger
Take it off!
What, you are the priest's son? So fuck
So fuck yourself and die
Sill I stand against the death!
Am I just a shade?
Always I'm awake and in black!
Sill I dare to praise the Lord,
No I won't pass to the lord
Goodbye, no
So the keeper waits upon,
He waits upon a border
Let me own your punishment,
It's time to break the border!
The Candlelight fades away
There's nothing at all but me
I stare at death and the darkest one's
Watching me with cold eyes
A god has been with me in the shadows
I lost my reason to hate! ya!
(So it's right...)
(I can leave the shadows!)
(The last one has to survive!)
Yaww!
Wow, right!
With my light shining bright
I got my way, to regret ? (just my hearts)?
With my last dying rhyme I got my world
To betray for what I did by my motherfucking heart!
The shadows draw back into honesty and love!
Obey, and it will cut your throat
I can't speak and you shan't be the next,
The shadows strike in your blame, yaw!
Just justify my longing to die,
Bury me down at last,
I think about it in the shadows and cry!
Can scissors heal a man torn of tears,
A fading I fear inside.
The reaper in sheet will stand by me
I'm dreaming, I'm wearing a black dress that night!
I'm just a being tonight,
And still I'm dressed so black, oh yeah!
Maybe I'm just blind,
But maybe I should try
Can't you see why the vision is calling you?
I got the one, the dream of horror!
Dreams of blood, dreams of war!
Rudest eyes have seen the fright
Welcome to the eternal night!
You won't be a butcher
No, you won't be at last
Somebody's the trigger
Take it off!
What, you are the priest's son? So fuck
So fuck yourself and die
Sill I stand against the death!
Am I just a shade?
Always I'm awake and in black!
Sill I dare to praise the Lord,
No I won't pass to the lord
Goodbye, no
So the keeper waits upon,
He waits upon a border
Let me own your punishment,
It's time to break the border!
The Candlelight fades away
There's nothing at all but me
I stare at death and the darkest one's
Watching me with cold eyes
A god has been with me in the shadows
I lost my reason to hate! ya!
(So it's right...)
(I can leave the shadows!)
(The last one has to survive!)
Yaww!
Wow, right!
With my light shining bright
I got my way, to regret ? (just my hearts)?
With my last dying rhyme I got my world
To betray for what I did by my motherfucking heart!
The shadows draw back into honesty and love!
Obey, and it will cut your throat
I can't speak and you shan't be the next,
The shadows strike in your blame, yaw!
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