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.
"Behold a jocund morn indeed! -
Sun on high - birds in sky.
Yonder the whist firth eathing,
Fro where a gale erranteth."
"Ye beholdest but the shadow.
Mayhap a tithe of trothplight -
I deem - e'er and anon!"
"To and fro, save hither,
Is thy love."
"Not a loth! -
But vying for my kinsmen!"
"Beautiful tyrant!
Fiend Angelica!
Dove-feathered raven!
Woluish-ravening lamb!
A hamlet for a slothful vassal -
Soothing ale for a parched sot.
Hie to tell me
What ye judgest as naught
I behold the shadow!"
"E'er thou sayest aye!
Thief of a plot!
Now go to thy tryst!
Go, leave, totter! -
Until ye dwindlest.
A morsel, nay more,
For thy journey
Hither and thither!"
"That is a lie!
Lief I am not!
My words are but a twist
Fare well! - with jiy I came,
With rue I leave.
Even the orb cannot.
Help me melt the ice?"
"That is a lie!
Lief I am not!
My words are but a twist
Tis a feigned lie through loathing,
I say!"
"A dotard gaffer, I daresay..."
"...a sapling not!"
"Wherefore call me such names;
Nay imp am I!
Thou art my aghast hart -
Gazing in the glade."
Sun on high - birds in sky.
Yonder the whist firth eathing,
Fro where a gale erranteth."
"Ye beholdest but the shadow.
Mayhap a tithe of trothplight -
I deem - e'er and anon!"
"To and fro, save hither,
Is thy love."
"Not a loth! -
But vying for my kinsmen!"
"Beautiful tyrant!
Fiend Angelica!
Dove-feathered raven!
Woluish-ravening lamb!
A hamlet for a slothful vassal -
Soothing ale for a parched sot.
Hie to tell me
What ye judgest as naught
I behold the shadow!"
"E'er thou sayest aye!
Thief of a plot!
Now go to thy tryst!
Go, leave, totter! -
Until ye dwindlest.
A morsel, nay more,
For thy journey
Hither and thither!"
"That is a lie!
Lief I am not!
My words are but a twist
Fare well! - with jiy I came,
With rue I leave.
Even the orb cannot.
Help me melt the ice?"
"That is a lie!
Lief I am not!
My words are but a twist
Tis a feigned lie through loathing,
I say!"
"A dotard gaffer, I daresay..."
"...a sapling not!"
"Wherefore call me such names;
Nay imp am I!
Thou art my aghast hart -
Gazing in the glade."
Lyrics submitted by TheUnholyMaster, edited by 2megatherion
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