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.
HIV!
Here I am different in this normal world
Why did you tease me?
Made me feel upset
Fucking stereotypes feeding their heads
I am ugly. Please, just go away...
(HIV!)
I can see inside you fine
This blessing in disguise
(HIV!)
Why do you treat me this way?
Made the hate stay...
I sound like I can never seem to escape
All the laughing, all the pain
If you were me, what would you do?
Nothing, probably. You'd just throw me away
I can see inside you fine
(HIV!)
This blessing in disguise
Why do you treat me this way?
(HIV!)
Made the hate stay...
FAGET! (3x)
Here I am different in this normal world
Why did you tease me?
Made me feel upset
Fucking stereotypes feeding their heads
I am ugly. Please, just go away!
(HIV!)
I can see inside you fine
This blessing in disguise
Why do you treat me this way?
(HIV!)
Made the hate stay...
FAGET!
(Pussy...)
I'm just a pretty boy, whatever you call it
You wouldn't know a real man if you saw it
It keeps going on day after day, son
"You faget! , Get off we don't want none"
I'm sick and tired of people treating me this way everyday
Who gives a fuck right now
I got something to say
To all the people that think I'm strange
I should be out of here locked up in a CAGE
You don't know what the hell is up now anyway
You got this pretty-boy feeling like I'm enslaved
To a world that never appreciated shit
YOU CAN SUCK MY DICK AND FUCKING LIKE IT!!
He had my gun but he had to find the money any say
He had my gun but he had to find the money anyway
He had my gun but he had to find the money don't wanna say
He had my gun but he had to find the money anyway
He had my gun but he had to find the money any say
He had my gun but he had to find the money going away
He had my gun but he had to find the money don't wanna say
He had my gun but he had to find the money don't anyway
I'm just a pretty boy, I'm not supposed to fuck a girl
I'm just a pretty boy, living in this fucked up world (Repeat verse)
All my life, who am I?! (11x)
All my life!
I'm just a faget! (Faget!) (3x)
I'm a faget (Faget!)
I'm not a faget! (Or am I?/Faget!) (3x)
You mother fucking queers!
Here I am different in this normal world
Why did you tease me?
Made me feel upset
Fucking stereotypes feeding their heads
I am ugly. Please, just go away...
(HIV!)
I can see inside you fine
This blessing in disguise
(HIV!)
Why do you treat me this way?
Made the hate stay...
I sound like I can never seem to escape
All the laughing, all the pain
If you were me, what would you do?
Nothing, probably. You'd just throw me away
I can see inside you fine
(HIV!)
This blessing in disguise
Why do you treat me this way?
(HIV!)
Made the hate stay...
FAGET! (3x)
Here I am different in this normal world
Why did you tease me?
Made me feel upset
Fucking stereotypes feeding their heads
I am ugly. Please, just go away!
(HIV!)
I can see inside you fine
This blessing in disguise
Why do you treat me this way?
(HIV!)
Made the hate stay...
FAGET!
(Pussy...)
I'm just a pretty boy, whatever you call it
You wouldn't know a real man if you saw it
It keeps going on day after day, son
"You faget! , Get off we don't want none"
I'm sick and tired of people treating me this way everyday
Who gives a fuck right now
I got something to say
To all the people that think I'm strange
I should be out of here locked up in a CAGE
You don't know what the hell is up now anyway
You got this pretty-boy feeling like I'm enslaved
To a world that never appreciated shit
YOU CAN SUCK MY DICK AND FUCKING LIKE IT!!
He had my gun but he had to find the money any say
He had my gun but he had to find the money anyway
He had my gun but he had to find the money don't wanna say
He had my gun but he had to find the money anyway
He had my gun but he had to find the money any say
He had my gun but he had to find the money going away
He had my gun but he had to find the money don't wanna say
He had my gun but he had to find the money don't anyway
I'm just a pretty boy, I'm not supposed to fuck a girl
I'm just a pretty boy, living in this fucked up world (Repeat verse)
All my life, who am I?! (11x)
All my life!
I'm just a faget! (Faget!) (3x)
I'm a faget (Faget!)
I'm not a faget! (Or am I?/Faget!) (3x)
You mother fucking queers!
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kylie.