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.
All of the DJ's surely have taken a lesson
Start talking trash and I'll come with my Smith and Wesson
A little competition comes my way (billy bye)
But it always winds up the same
But the stone that the builder refused
Shall be the head corner stone
Ah, but there ain't nothin' wrong
Ain't nothin' right
And still I sit and lie awake all night
Oh, all of the DJ's surely have taken a lesson
Try talkin' trash and I'll come with my Smith and Wesson
(Enough DJs come with) enough, enough style
(But when I bust my lyrics we all know it's) wicked and wiley
'Cause there
Ain't nothin' wrong
Ain't nothin' right
And still I sit and lie awake all night
Oh, You better strapped with your gat if you wan' walk with me
I bound to come down with the new style
Rockin' rubadub known as reggae music
Gonna come down with the new lyrics
'Cause it just ain't no thing
Oh, I said it's been a real long time
Oh, but there
Ain't nothin' wrong
Ain't nothin' right
And still I sit and lie awake all night
Oh yeah
Rubadub blender a new mixer, go
I am the one DJ with enough flava
It go here I go, here I'm come, heara the dubbed down DJ
Lord have his grilled cheese
I mean ah, I am Jamaican but I ain't no freak
I caught the man Eno with a ten pound bag o' tweak (eazy, "damn")
And we called him ghost rider
Every time you see him he fulfill the danger
Ain't nothin' wrong
Ain't nothin' right
And still I sit and lie awake all night
Oh, oh
Dreddy got a job to do
And we might fulfill the mision
To see his pain would be his greatest ambition
But ah, we will survive in this world of competition
Shooting guns and our ammunition
Bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo
Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go
I won't wait so long, mmm
I said I won't wait so long for you
Oh, oh, yeah mmm mmm ooh oh
Hard to get so much
Stop your messin' around, ah ah ah
Better think of your future, ah ah ah
Time you straighten right out, ah ah
Or you'll wind up in jail
Start talking trash and I'll come with my Smith and Wesson
A little competition comes my way (billy bye)
But it always winds up the same
But the stone that the builder refused
Shall be the head corner stone
Ah, but there ain't nothin' wrong
Ain't nothin' right
And still I sit and lie awake all night
Oh, all of the DJ's surely have taken a lesson
Try talkin' trash and I'll come with my Smith and Wesson
(Enough DJs come with) enough, enough style
(But when I bust my lyrics we all know it's) wicked and wiley
'Cause there
Ain't nothin' wrong
Ain't nothin' right
And still I sit and lie awake all night
Oh, You better strapped with your gat if you wan' walk with me
I bound to come down with the new style
Rockin' rubadub known as reggae music
Gonna come down with the new lyrics
'Cause it just ain't no thing
Oh, I said it's been a real long time
Oh, but there
Ain't nothin' wrong
Ain't nothin' right
And still I sit and lie awake all night
Oh yeah
Rubadub blender a new mixer, go
I am the one DJ with enough flava
It go here I go, here I'm come, heara the dubbed down DJ
Lord have his grilled cheese
I mean ah, I am Jamaican but I ain't no freak
I caught the man Eno with a ten pound bag o' tweak (eazy, "damn")
And we called him ghost rider
Every time you see him he fulfill the danger
Ain't nothin' wrong
Ain't nothin' right
And still I sit and lie awake all night
Oh, oh
Dreddy got a job to do
And we might fulfill the mision
To see his pain would be his greatest ambition
But ah, we will survive in this world of competition
Shooting guns and our ammunition
Bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo
Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go
I won't wait so long, mmm
I said I won't wait so long for you
Oh, oh, yeah mmm mmm ooh oh
Hard to get so much
Stop your messin' around, ah ah ah
Better think of your future, ah ah ah
Time you straighten right out, ah ah
Or you'll wind up in jail
Lyrics submitted by The Big Andowski
D.J.'s Lyrics as written by Bradley James Nowell
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Royalty Network
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