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.
Harvest growth to captivate
Liberate your mind
Seek the truth, co-operate
Removal of the grind
Supposition, theorise
Germinate and seed
Draw into aseity
Roaring "We, the freed"
Corpulent authority
Extirpate with law
Given enough rope to hang them
Rutting with their whores
Intersocial involition
Hypocrisy to breed
Power-hungry carry on
Muting we...the...freed
The Hallucination Contradicts
This Hidden Conspiracy
Trance-like Heresy Commence.....
.....start drawing towards the free
Exercise the will - We, the freed
Exercise the will - We, the freed
Exercise the will - We, the freed
Exercise the will............
If their heresy is such an illegal offence
Then we'll all be getting stoned in the biblical sense
The process of weeding out has begun
Yet drawing it in is much more fun
Stoned-head at six feet deep
If a joint is not a joint, it's a piece of meat
Or a hinge that could open your mind to see
What we desire, released, be free
We, the freed - Duplicity in mortal world
Decadence to rage - Jocular our moral standarts
Return to stone age - Manifest my definition?
Interpretation keyed? - Sequential our persecution
Sanction we, the freed
[Dedicated to: Ed & Impaler, Bill & Exit-13, Dan & Brutal Truth]
Liberate your mind
Seek the truth, co-operate
Removal of the grind
Supposition, theorise
Germinate and seed
Draw into aseity
Roaring "We, the freed"
Corpulent authority
Extirpate with law
Given enough rope to hang them
Rutting with their whores
Intersocial involition
Hypocrisy to breed
Power-hungry carry on
Muting we...the...freed
The Hallucination Contradicts
This Hidden Conspiracy
Trance-like Heresy Commence.....
.....start drawing towards the free
Exercise the will - We, the freed
Exercise the will - We, the freed
Exercise the will - We, the freed
Exercise the will............
If their heresy is such an illegal offence
Then we'll all be getting stoned in the biblical sense
The process of weeding out has begun
Yet drawing it in is much more fun
Stoned-head at six feet deep
If a joint is not a joint, it's a piece of meat
Or a hinge that could open your mind to see
What we desire, released, be free
We, the freed - Duplicity in mortal world
Decadence to rage - Jocular our moral standarts
Return to stone age - Manifest my definition?
Interpretation keyed? - Sequential our persecution
Sanction we, the freed
[Dedicated to: Ed & Impaler, Bill & Exit-13, Dan & Brutal Truth]
Lyrics submitted by ruben
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