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.
Free at last, I'm the past
Undone in unknown prison, I'm holding on
Peace and need, a mouth to feed
I'm standing way on the other side
I'm staring right back at my cell
And through its frozen image
I'm laughing right back at my hell
Lifelong
Arms in knots, liver spot
My blood is paving your woes
Stealing keys sold to me
It kills the brotherhood writhes with pain
I'm staring right back at my cell
And through its frozen image
I'm laughing right back at my hell
Lifelong
I'm a lifer
Lifer
Lifer
Lifer (lifer)
Lifer (lifer)
Lifer (lifer)
I'm staring right back at my cell
And through its frozen image
I'm laughing right back at my hell
I'm staring right back at my cell
And through its frozen image
I'm laughing right back at my hell
Lifelong
Undone in unknown prison, I'm holding on
Peace and need, a mouth to feed
I'm standing way on the other side
I'm staring right back at my cell
And through its frozen image
I'm laughing right back at my hell
Lifelong
Arms in knots, liver spot
My blood is paving your woes
Stealing keys sold to me
It kills the brotherhood writhes with pain
I'm staring right back at my cell
And through its frozen image
I'm laughing right back at my hell
Lifelong
I'm a lifer
Lifer
Lifer
Lifer (lifer)
Lifer (lifer)
Lifer (lifer)
I'm staring right back at my cell
And through its frozen image
I'm laughing right back at my hell
I'm staring right back at my cell
And through its frozen image
I'm laughing right back at my hell
Lifelong
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There's an interview where Phil talks about this song and about 'Lifers', who are, in his words, people who do nothing else except music, who don't want to do anything else except play music.
This song is about Phil talking about being on the cover of a magazine, he's looking at a picture of himself, his 'frozen image'.
Also, the lyrics are wrong in every place they're transcribed, everywhere. These lyrics are also WRONG.
It doesn't say 'myself' and 'my health'. It says 'my cell' and 'my hell', if you listen closely - the chorus actually changes each time you hear it. This is not because Phil was high, this is because there are DIFFERENT LYRICS.
First chorus: My cell, My hell
Second verse:
Arms in knots Liver spot My blood is paving your woes Stealing keys Sold to me It kills the brotherhood Writhes with pain
Second chorus: Myself, My Deal
Third chorus: My Cell, My Tale, My Cell, My Hell
Good call on the lyrics. <br /> <br /> I've always heard the second verse as "My blood is paving your world"
you missed a whole verse there buddy
Ya Swan Song is also missing alot.
yeah,thats not the whole thing! Still,Down's best song.Awesome time change in the middle.
there is no time change, its just a tempo change
this song is about having the same mantality your whole life and never following any trends, being a lifer
tempo cahnge then. i cant even remember what it sounds like now.
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he just took was in the book, which is missing half
Brotherhood of eternal sleep...for LIFE.
This song is about living life for the sake of life once you're free, because in there end that's all there is.