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.
She was moring
And I was night time
I one day woke up
To find her lying
Beside my bed
I softly said
"Come take me"
For I've been lonely
In need of someone
As though I'd done
Someone wrong somewhere
I don't know where
Come lately
You are the sun
I am the moon
You are the words
I am the tune
Play me
Song she sang to me
Song she brang to me
Words that rang in me
Rhyme that sprang from me
Warmed the night
And what was right
Became me
You are the sun
I am the moon
You are the words
I am the tune
Play me
And so it was
That I came to travel
Upon a road
That was thorned and narrow
Another place
Another grace
Would save me
You are the sun
I am the moon
You are the word
I am the tune
Play me
And I was night time
I one day woke up
To find her lying
Beside my bed
I softly said
"Come take me"
For I've been lonely
In need of someone
As though I'd done
Someone wrong somewhere
I don't know where
Come lately
You are the sun
I am the moon
You are the words
I am the tune
Play me
Song she sang to me
Song she brang to me
Words that rang in me
Rhyme that sprang from me
Warmed the night
And what was right
Became me
You are the sun
I am the moon
You are the words
I am the tune
Play me
And so it was
That I came to travel
Upon a road
That was thorned and narrow
Another place
Another grace
Would save me
You are the sun
I am the moon
You are the word
I am the tune
Play me
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Absolutely love this song. It's so sweet! :D
Just a few random thoughts of this song (as the story I see in it)...
She was morning And I was night time I one day woke up To find her lying Beside my bed I softly said "Come take me"
Interesting. Why was she lying beside his bed? Kind of gives the impression she was waiting for him to become aware of her presence. Like she'd been waiting for him for awhile.
Rhyme that sprang from me Warmed the night And what was right Became me
And what was right, became me....He became what was "right", the better man? Or he felt that through her eyes he could do no wrong? Or even that what was right looked more becoming, more attractive, to him because of her presence.
And so it was That I came to travel Upon a road That was thorned and narrow Another place Another grace Would save me
So at some point he decides to leave her, I think. A thorned and narrow road, too narrow, I'm guessing, for more than one to travel. Another place, another grace... Something else destined to save him. Fame? Fortune? Almost a religious connotation to those words.
You are the sun I am the moon You are the words I am the tune Play me
Echoed three times. The third time, is it a looking back to the earlier memories of her? Or is he speaking to the new entity that he has chosen to follow instead...
I still think Diamond is talking about his guitar. Think about it, lying beside my bed (not on it) come take me ,You are the words I am the tune play me. The guitar is his companion and source of the tune, Diamond is the source of the words. I could be wrong here but makes sense the way he wrote the lyrics.
@j116572142 I agree with you 100%. Why would anyone lying BESIDE someone's bed? It could only be a guitar.
@j116572142 What an interesting take. I\'m going to have to listen to it again with that context.
@j116572142 - I agree completrely!!!
I was floored by the last verse of this song where he says I traveled a road that was narrow and thorny, that led him to another grace that saved him. I googled his religious beliefs and found out that even though he's Jewish, he converted to Christianity. Jesus said the road that leads to life is narrow. The thorns refer to jesus's thorny crown, and the grace that saved him refers to Ephesians 2:8 " For by grace are we saved through faith, not by works less any man should boast." It warms my heart that I'll see Neil in Paradise. I wish I could say the same for cat Stevens, " there is a way that seems right to a man, but leads to death"