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.
One step
One step
As I witness the death of innocence
A predator feeding on its creation
Through the fallout of this hallucination
I (I) walked into darkness
Must not surrender my god to anyone (one)
Or this body will become carrion
One step closer
One step closer to my grave
One step closer
One step closer to the fate
As I witness my own degeneration
The future condemns me
One step
As I witness the death of innocence
A predator feeding on its creation
Through the fallout of this hallucination
I (I) walked into darkness
Must not surrender my god to anyone (one)
Or this body will become carrion
One step closer
One step closer to my grave
One step closer
One step closer to the fate
As I witness my own degeneration
The future condemns me
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Its a warning against the digital age
Gr8 song
yeah i agree, a warning against the beckoning digital age, hence the title, Digimortal (Digital Mortality)
Why does this band remind me of the Terminator movies??
Ovex, they remind you of terminator because the concept of their music from the beginning up to Digimortal was about the same as the Terminator movies. In fact, there's a few songs based on terminator names, such as H-K on demanufacture (an H-K is the large tread rolling machine seen in the battlefield at the beginning of T2, short for Hunter-Killer) and T-1000 on Remanufacture (this one's obvious). Not to mention that they've also used several sound scores from the movies in their songs.
exactly "freehueyworldreport" technology will be mankinds guillotine in one way or another.
Aside from the digital age it could also apply to the objectification of humans as commodities, aside from the aforementioned technological things.