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.
Come Little Children
I'll Take Thee Away, Into A Land
Of Enchantment
Come Little Children
The Time's Come To Play
Here In My Garden
Of Shadows
Follow Sweet Children
I'll Show Thee the Way
Through All The Pain And
The Sorrow
Weep Not Poor Children
For Life Is This Way
Murdering Beauty And
Passions
Hush Now Dear Children
It Must Be This Way
Too Weary Of Life And
Deceptions
Rest Now My Children
For Soon We'll Away
Into The Calm And
The Quiet
Come Little Children
I'll Take Thee Away, Into A Land
Of Enchantment
Come Little Children
The Time's Come To Play
Here In My Garden
Of Shadows
I'll Take Thee Away, Into A Land
Of Enchantment
Come Little Children
The Time's Come To Play
Here In My Garden
Of Shadows
Follow Sweet Children
I'll Show Thee the Way
Through All The Pain And
The Sorrow
Weep Not Poor Children
For Life Is This Way
Murdering Beauty And
Passions
Hush Now Dear Children
It Must Be This Way
Too Weary Of Life And
Deceptions
Rest Now My Children
For Soon We'll Away
Into The Calm And
The Quiet
Come Little Children
I'll Take Thee Away, Into A Land
Of Enchantment
Come Little Children
The Time's Come To Play
Here In My Garden
Of Shadows
Lyrics submitted by Scarling., edited by thefallen-girl, k9wolflord
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Come Little Children / I'll take thee away / Into a land of enchantment
The singer is luring children. Not to death, but to safety.
Come Little Children / Times come to play / Here in my garden of shadows
I believe the children are lost in a dark forest with danger all around, and the "garden of shadows" is a safe clearing tucked away.
Follow sweet children / I'll show thee the way / Through all the pain and the sorrows
"The pain and the sorrows" are the dark depressing nature of the woods, naturally scaring them.
Weep not poor children / For life is this way, / Murdering Beauty and Passions
I believe now she is comforting one of the children who may have had a nightmare, possibly about the death of a loved one.
Hush now my children / It must be this way / Too wary of life and deception
She's explaining the way of the forest, and how you can never be too careful
Rest now my children / For soon we'll away / Into the calm and the quiet
"The calm and the quiet" refers to the meadow outside the forest by the children's homes.
And then the chorus repeats.
Most of this is my own interpretation, but the first time I heard this was in "Children of the Night" by Duo Cartoonist.