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.
Its
Raining
In the back seat
Of my Cadillac
Dollys
Sitting in
The white wet
Someone
Hung a coat
On a statue
Of Christ
And I called
For a drink
And a vet
Den haague
Den haague
You
Scare me good
Den haague
Den haague
You scare me
We were taken
From behind
By
Some flesh jabs
Two liters
Really make you
Move
Look out for
The muff king
With a
Big black whopper
In a
Two way
Mirror mood
Den haague
Den haague
You
Scare me good
Den haague
Den haague
You scare me
Some other time
Some other where
Baby
You might care
Some other time
Some other where
Baby
You might dare
Den haague
Den haague
You
Scare me good
Den haague
Den haague
You scare me
Raining
In the back seat
Of my Cadillac
Dollys
Sitting in
The white wet
Someone
Hung a coat
On a statue
Of Christ
And I called
For a drink
And a vet
Den haague
Den haague
You
Scare me good
Den haague
Den haague
You scare me
We were taken
From behind
By
Some flesh jabs
Two liters
Really make you
Move
Look out for
The muff king
With a
Big black whopper
In a
Two way
Mirror mood
Den haague
Den haague
You
Scare me good
Den haague
Den haague
You scare me
Some other time
Some other where
Baby
You might care
Some other time
Some other where
Baby
You might dare
Den haague
Den haague
You
Scare me good
Den haague
Den haague
You scare me
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Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"--being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. But he's so complacent with it. This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. But there is seemingly no way out but death. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life.
Just A Little Lovin'
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I do not think the song is set in Den Haague and is used as a metaphorical difference to what the voice in this song is seeing during a heavy social event.
The two way mirrors and back stabbing in the lyrics suggest opposites and distorted sense. Den haague may be named in cheek or disrespect, or disbelief, vain and irony.
'den haague you scare me good' good being real bad and shaken up.
'Someone hung a coat on the statue of christ and I called for a drink and a vet' using the staue of christ as a coat hanger symbolising a type of blind eye and set of priorities for material possessions and pleasure.
The voice in the song feels sick like a dog or an animal and prehaps drenched in an enviroment of seediness, sleeze, garishness and heavy drink.
The voice in the song may be thinking about someones innoccence and may hate them for it, be jealous of it, or be wishing it away from them.
They may also be singluarly caught up thinking about someone who is on the scene, or are away. The voice itself may be innocent and wide eyed and their thoughts going astray whilst the event places itself around them.
I get the impression that the voice in the song is tried, sick, disgusted and paranoid but also electrified and is a deep part of the scene.
The high bell that sounds throughout this song sounds the like type used for meditation which alerts, hightens and focuses your senses to a point.