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.
Thinking Tony is his man
Thinking Tony work with him
But Tony working with the Man
Thinking Tony got a plan
Told Stan about this man
Told him that his sister husband tryna cop around ten
Stan said let's make it happen
But what Stan don't understand
It's today the last day
He'll see the light again
But Tone don't give a damn
Anything to save him
Even if that mean he got to send his nigga to the can
Take heed of what I'm saying
Before it's too late
Just beware of phony niggas that be smiling in your face
[Chorus]
Kim and Janet best friends
And they been that way for years
Janet single but see Kim got a nigga and two kids
Janet babysit her kids
Janet loves them like they're hers
Janet needs a place to live
So Kim let her come live with them
Kim knows her just like her fam
But what Kim don't understand
Is that Janet's not her kin
Janet's not even her friend
Janet's tryna seek revenge
Janet's got a plan
Janet's still holding a grudge from back when her and Kim were ten
She devised a perfect plan
Janet's gon sleep with her man
She lays naked in the kitchen wait for him to come in
He walks in the door like damn
You know a man gon be a man
In the mist of all of that he must forgot about Kim
Kim bust's in on them
Janet stands there with her grin
Kim fussin, cussin, hollerin, screamin going straight nuts on them
Kim crying out like damn
Jan I thought you were my friend
Janet said, "You remember you took my boyfriend back when we were ten." Damn
[Chorus]
Michael real cool nigga but he just not getting money (how)
Drought came around
He fixed up niggas for some dummies
Now he ballin like a dog
Every night he in the club
Throwing money, popping bottles, flexing hard
He don't give a fuck
Then one night he met this girl
Finest girl he ever saw
He say I never seen before
She say I'm here from Arkansas
They kicked it off a couple months
She fucked and sucked him like a pole
He say I love your dirty drawers baby I never let you go
Year later they're still together
Now he feeling like he love her
So he let her in his business
Cause he felt like he could trust her
She sitting in the kitchen while he busting down dem bricks
She thumbing through the check
He swear he got a gangster bitch
Well he don't know about this bitch
Cause everything she say a lie
Man this xxxxx ain't who she say she is
This xxxxx is FBI
Man this game a dirty game
Man be well for the tricks
Before you end up just like Mike
Be sitting in jail about a bitch
Thinking Tony work with him
But Tony working with the Man
Thinking Tony got a plan
Told Stan about this man
Told him that his sister husband tryna cop around ten
Stan said let's make it happen
But what Stan don't understand
It's today the last day
He'll see the light again
But Tone don't give a damn
Anything to save him
Even if that mean he got to send his nigga to the can
Take heed of what I'm saying
Before it's too late
Just beware of phony niggas that be smiling in your face
[Chorus]
Kim and Janet best friends
And they been that way for years
Janet single but see Kim got a nigga and two kids
Janet babysit her kids
Janet loves them like they're hers
Janet needs a place to live
So Kim let her come live with them
Kim knows her just like her fam
But what Kim don't understand
Is that Janet's not her kin
Janet's not even her friend
Janet's tryna seek revenge
Janet's got a plan
Janet's still holding a grudge from back when her and Kim were ten
She devised a perfect plan
Janet's gon sleep with her man
She lays naked in the kitchen wait for him to come in
He walks in the door like damn
You know a man gon be a man
In the mist of all of that he must forgot about Kim
Kim bust's in on them
Janet stands there with her grin
Kim fussin, cussin, hollerin, screamin going straight nuts on them
Kim crying out like damn
Jan I thought you were my friend
Janet said, "You remember you took my boyfriend back when we were ten." Damn
[Chorus]
Michael real cool nigga but he just not getting money (how)
Drought came around
He fixed up niggas for some dummies
Now he ballin like a dog
Every night he in the club
Throwing money, popping bottles, flexing hard
He don't give a fuck
Then one night he met this girl
Finest girl he ever saw
He say I never seen before
She say I'm here from Arkansas
They kicked it off a couple months
She fucked and sucked him like a pole
He say I love your dirty drawers baby I never let you go
Year later they're still together
Now he feeling like he love her
So he let her in his business
Cause he felt like he could trust her
She sitting in the kitchen while he busting down dem bricks
She thumbing through the check
He swear he got a gangster bitch
Well he don't know about this bitch
Cause everything she say a lie
Man this xxxxx ain't who she say she is
This xxxxx is FBI
Man this game a dirty game
Man be well for the tricks
Before you end up just like Mike
Be sitting in jail about a bitch
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