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.
You haven't looked at me that way in years
You dreamed me up and left me here
How long was I dreaming for
What was it you wanted me for
You haven't looked at me that way in years
Your watch has stopped and the pond is clear
Someone turn the lights back off
I'll love you til all time is gone
You haven't looked at me that way in years
But I'm still here
You dreamed me up and left me here
How long was I dreaming for
What was it you wanted me for
You haven't looked at me that way in years
Your watch has stopped and the pond is clear
Someone turn the lights back off
I'll love you til all time is gone
You haven't looked at me that way in years
But I'm still here
Lyrics submitted by merchantpierce, edited by Elluna
I'm Still Here Lyrics as written by Thomas Alan Waits Kathleen Brennan
Lyrics © JALMA MUSIC
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These lyrics are wrong - it's "someone turn the lights back ON", not "off". Please correct! This is one of my favourite songs.
I can admit to being really skeptical and not wanting to believe that this was about Alice, seeing as the album seems to be just a collection of unrequited love songs with Alice in Wonderland being the recurring theme (ok. Not all of them. I'd hardly call Kommienezuspadt a love song, hah.) but it just makes so much sense, grrrrr. It makes so much sense and it's such a good concept, the fact that she's grown up and he's lost interest, it's so clever. I really liked the Alzheimers idea though. It's just, all the references, 'you dreamed me up', like the character Alice, and then ohhhh this song is so beautiful. What an awful/incoherent comment. Never mind.
This is Alice's reply to the speaker in the title song of the album. He sings his love to Alice, he's entranced... but years later when the pond is clear and time is no longer an issue, she waits, but he seems to have forgotten her.
I believe it is a dream. He wanders back to the pond, only to see Alice's apparition speaking to him the words he longs to hear.
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this is quite simply, a masterpiece...
I felt like I had already heard this song when I first heard it.
I was the same way, this song sounds so familiar and still new.
I believe the song is about Alzheimer's. The first part, to me, is about the person who has alzheirmer's and has a short time of lucidity.
" You dreamed me up and left me here How long was I dreaming for What was it you wanted me for "
The second part is about the person taking care of the first one and rediscovers, with this short spark of lucidity, the person he or she once loved.
" Your watch has stopped and the pond is clear Someone turn the lights back off I'll love you til all time is gone "
@Ex Abrupto It's supposed to be turn the lights back on