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.
Lessons in might, lessons in stress
Teachings of right, reasons of less
Seekers of strength, only they guess
Will they proceed, or will they suppress
Frequent, illusive, you have the power to follow the one
Decisive, conclusive, the fall of the world has just begun
Wasteful, astounding, violence and force is the only way
Corrupted, misguided, we will lose thousands of people today
The fall of priest Hussein
Allah is to blame
Islamic fools of war
Soon will live no more
Ablative, abeyance, depriving the world with disruption of peace
Deceitful, fascists, holding the fate of the world in our hands
Harmonic, defiance, taking for granted the gift human life
Ironic, compliance, testing the fruits of their progressive toys
Will trade our blood for oil
Until our hands have been soiled
Civilians, pawns and kings
Will pay the penalty
The countdown of the endless problems
All the endless fools soon brought down
Never knowing where they've fallen
Has our Creator been calling
Countless bodies, piles of ashes
Severed mortar, wasteful clashes
Is the worth the whole disaster
Is the life, we're dying faster
Seasons of death, a game of chess
Leaders of pawns, where do they spawn
Just raised for war, to open the door
The door of demise, the deadly surprise
Teachings of right, reasons of less
Seekers of strength, only they guess
Will they proceed, or will they suppress
Frequent, illusive, you have the power to follow the one
Decisive, conclusive, the fall of the world has just begun
Wasteful, astounding, violence and force is the only way
Corrupted, misguided, we will lose thousands of people today
The fall of priest Hussein
Allah is to blame
Islamic fools of war
Soon will live no more
Ablative, abeyance, depriving the world with disruption of peace
Deceitful, fascists, holding the fate of the world in our hands
Harmonic, defiance, taking for granted the gift human life
Ironic, compliance, testing the fruits of their progressive toys
Will trade our blood for oil
Until our hands have been soiled
Civilians, pawns and kings
Will pay the penalty
The countdown of the endless problems
All the endless fools soon brought down
Never knowing where they've fallen
Has our Creator been calling
Countless bodies, piles of ashes
Severed mortar, wasteful clashes
Is the worth the whole disaster
Is the life, we're dying faster
Seasons of death, a game of chess
Leaders of pawns, where do they spawn
Just raised for war, to open the door
The door of demise, the deadly surprise
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