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.
What can we scrape together
We're just a flesh as evidence
Hand fulls of hate
And the bittersweet ambivalence
Cuz I am pushing cobwebs
And I'm folding into myself
Who will find me under this mean sleep
How can the clouds tease us into thinking it might rain
How could the need decieve us into thinking things might change
I had a mean sleep over you
And it hurts coming back to life
You could burn a thousand days
And I would need no other light
You could die a thousand ways
And I'd still love you back to life
But my need's rising angry and my loneliness like quicksand
Who will find me under this mean sleep
How can the clouds tease us into thinking it might rain
How could the need decieve us into thinking things might change
I had a mean sleep over you
And it hurts coming back to life
I am lost to the longing
I am mounded by the memory
Had shut down half my mind
Just to still the space you left behind
Cuz I am pushing cobwebs and i'm folding into myself
Who will find me under this mean sleep
How can the clouds tease us into thinking it might rain
How could the need decieve us into thinking things might change
I had a mean sleep over you
And it hurts coming back to life
We're just a flesh as evidence
Hand fulls of hate
And the bittersweet ambivalence
Cuz I am pushing cobwebs
And I'm folding into myself
Who will find me under this mean sleep
How can the clouds tease us into thinking it might rain
How could the need decieve us into thinking things might change
I had a mean sleep over you
And it hurts coming back to life
You could burn a thousand days
And I would need no other light
You could die a thousand ways
And I'd still love you back to life
But my need's rising angry and my loneliness like quicksand
Who will find me under this mean sleep
How can the clouds tease us into thinking it might rain
How could the need decieve us into thinking things might change
I had a mean sleep over you
And it hurts coming back to life
I am lost to the longing
I am mounded by the memory
Had shut down half my mind
Just to still the space you left behind
Cuz I am pushing cobwebs and i'm folding into myself
Who will find me under this mean sleep
How can the clouds tease us into thinking it might rain
How could the need decieve us into thinking things might change
I had a mean sleep over you
And it hurts coming back to life
Lyrics submitted by shleigh03
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