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.
I'm such an asshole
god I'm such a stain
I just keep fucking up again and again
you crawled inside my mind
when you crawled into my bed
said everything I've ever longed to hear
so perfect, so alive,
once inside you sucked me dry
you used me up and left me here for dead
I crave it desperately, a cancer eating me
an addiction too intense to be denied worthless,
I'm a whore, crawling back for more
it's pathetic how I feed off this abuse
you told me that you love me and
I believed you loved me
but you swore that you loved me and I believed...
now I know it was a lie
I don't believe
I don't believe that I could be so stupid and so naive
I don't believe
I don't believe that there is nothing, nothing left for me
god I'm such a stain
I just keep fucking up again and again
you crawled inside my mind
when you crawled into my bed
said everything I've ever longed to hear
so perfect, so alive,
once inside you sucked me dry
you used me up and left me here for dead
I crave it desperately, a cancer eating me
an addiction too intense to be denied worthless,
I'm a whore, crawling back for more
it's pathetic how I feed off this abuse
you told me that you love me and
I believed you loved me
but you swore that you loved me and I believed...
now I know it was a lie
I don't believe
I don't believe that I could be so stupid and so naive
I don't believe
I don't believe that there is nothing, nothing left for me
Lyrics submitted by WrathofCarnage
I Don't Believe Lyrics as written by J. Sellers D. Suycott
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