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.
Goddamn, even Superman shot himself
Blew his mind couldn't save the wealth
Maybe he read the Sunday paper
Murder front page death and rape
I can't see through the haze of the hazy
It's the little things that drive a man crazy
You know what I mean I know why he did it
Too slow to outwit it, get it
His cape was red, but so was his blood
Man of steel fell with a thud
Taken out by a villain who's willin' to stand in line
And do the time you hated 'cause life brings death that life has created
And do you understand when I say it's the little things that break the man
By the way are you feeling it bit by bit
Piece by piece they're stealing it
Bite the dust hit the deck they're dealing it
You've got to give it up
Sometimes I feel so stupid
Sometimes I feel so low
Sometimes I think of all the things that I'll never know
Sometimes I don't know what to do
But most motherfuckers don't have a clue
Open your eyes see out the inside the point of the point of the point you can't hide from the shit that's all around funky ghetto of the mind that brings you down
Can't shake it 'til you give it up, sell your soul, or don't give a fuck
Takin' you out superhero style your finger's on the trigger
Wishing you were bigger all the while you've got the soul with rigor mortis
Like Travis Bickle said, "Suck on this"
You've got the soul with rigor mortis
Suck on this
The grip on the neck and the snake bite kiss
Blew his mind couldn't save the wealth
Maybe he read the Sunday paper
Murder front page death and rape
I can't see through the haze of the hazy
It's the little things that drive a man crazy
You know what I mean I know why he did it
Too slow to outwit it, get it
His cape was red, but so was his blood
Man of steel fell with a thud
Taken out by a villain who's willin' to stand in line
And do the time you hated 'cause life brings death that life has created
And do you understand when I say it's the little things that break the man
By the way are you feeling it bit by bit
Piece by piece they're stealing it
Bite the dust hit the deck they're dealing it
You've got to give it up
Sometimes I feel so stupid
Sometimes I feel so low
Sometimes I think of all the things that I'll never know
Sometimes I don't know what to do
But most motherfuckers don't have a clue
Open your eyes see out the inside the point of the point of the point you can't hide from the shit that's all around funky ghetto of the mind that brings you down
Can't shake it 'til you give it up, sell your soul, or don't give a fuck
Takin' you out superhero style your finger's on the trigger
Wishing you were bigger all the while you've got the soul with rigor mortis
Like Travis Bickle said, "Suck on this"
You've got the soul with rigor mortis
Suck on this
The grip on the neck and the snake bite kiss
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haha, that's a good one, thinking PM5K is the worst band on earth.. what the hell have you been listening to? Perhaps you haven't heard of, well.. DMB? The Vines? Strokes? Hives? Avril Lavigne?.. let's just throw in some Tool, Monster Magnet, and Slayer.. they haven't really done anything productive..
Ive been listening to music, not this nu-metal fodder.
Dude. Slipknot sucks.
Just letting you know.
Anyways. This song is about the shit that some men have to go through, for almost every day of their life. Sooner or later, it's gunna push them right over the edge. This happens to teenagers, adolescents, as well as old men. They totally lose it. They get into cutting. Into drinking. Into " selling your soul " to 'Satan'. Into killing. And sometimes, into suicide.
Who mentioned Slipknot?
You apparently have that 9(?)-member-piece-of-crap band as a favorites. So it's a perfect way to bash you off the cliff of ownage to a level of pwned.
What language are you speaking?
hey,quiffporn,shut the fuck up. PM5K doesn't suck. Mabey to you cause you don't know shit all.
I know what good music sounds like...
You do, you say, and you listen to garbage like slipknot. Before you knock on pm5k, consider the facts that your taste in music sucks... unless you like being criticized.
i like PM5K alot, im going to a concert of theirs on 3/23. you're probably bored sitting at home in ur garage, quiffporn, looking for for something to do so you just like pissing other people off.