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.
Your eyes followed me here
Your eyes seamless and sure
The leave me broken and in need of a cure
Your eyes followed me hear
Your eyes sifting my soul
They leave me broken hands, those diamonds
They lace me along
Giving synapse of white lines
Then chasing the dawn
Story book syntax
Your eyes slit the throat of all I know
About myself and this life
Silhouette lies
And your eyes speaking in tongues
Vigilant still filling my lungs
Testing my will
They leave me broken and bruised and bleeding
Your eyes resting in flame
Leaving me breathless again
Like hydrogen speak on fault lines
Or dead, kissing me with exposure to radon
Your eyes slit the throat of all I know
About myself and this life
Silhouette lies
Your eyes, your eyes
Speaking in tongues
Vigilant still, lead our way
Filling my lungs
Testing my will
You slit the throat, of all I know
About myself and this life
Silhouette lies
You slit my throat
Because I know
That this life is a lie
So slit my throat
Your eyes seamless and sure
The leave me broken and in need of a cure
Your eyes followed me hear
Your eyes sifting my soul
They leave me broken hands, those diamonds
They lace me along
Giving synapse of white lines
Then chasing the dawn
Story book syntax
Your eyes slit the throat of all I know
About myself and this life
Silhouette lies
And your eyes speaking in tongues
Vigilant still filling my lungs
Testing my will
They leave me broken and bruised and bleeding
Your eyes resting in flame
Leaving me breathless again
Like hydrogen speak on fault lines
Or dead, kissing me with exposure to radon
Your eyes slit the throat of all I know
About myself and this life
Silhouette lies
Your eyes, your eyes
Speaking in tongues
Vigilant still, lead our way
Filling my lungs
Testing my will
You slit the throat, of all I know
About myself and this life
Silhouette lies
You slit my throat
Because I know
That this life is a lie
So slit my throat
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Hey guys, great posts. Here's some help:
This song is about how the eyes of a girl represent to him the eyes of God. The most obvious nature of God is holiness. And if you haven't noticed already, many thrice songs express the idea of HOLINESS BEING DANGEROUS. holiness is a force that refines, that cuts at you, that radiates into you and through you, that sacrifices the bad parts of you and kills them. It tests you, tests your will, looks deeply into you for imperfections and helps you see yourself as what you are: a sinner who doesn't deserve eternally life, because anything that is impure cannot live forever. That is obvious in chemistry, and physics, and in the Greek philosophical Platonic ideas of perfect "forms" that were faultless versions of earthly realities.
The eyes come at him speaking in tongues, burning in fire yet not burning itself, like the bush moses encountered. filled with the spirit, consuming him, hurting him, etc. "help me draw the dagger deeper" from IC means, help kill my impure nature and crucify it on the cross with Jesus. you have to understand the bible to understand these lyrics. HOLINESS HURTS. you stare at it too long and you will go blind, you will crack your teeth on pearls on its wisdom, you will take calculated risks (danger) to bless his name, you will smash your fists in mirrors trying to search for it. The eyes rest in flame and look at him, piercing his soul.
whenever you deal with God's holiness you will get hurt. its scary. but he also will heal you. he'll strike you deep and true but then you'll have new life later. its like surgery.
i just think of it as him being so entranced with a girl, and her eyes speak truths to him that he otherwise couldn't see...her eyes (her spirit, this girl in general) give him a new perspective on the rest of the world. a parallel to that would be if you were to see a beautiful landscape or an incredible piece of artwork, or fall in love with a person as he has, and then you may try to find that beauty and amazing quality in the rest of the world, but you find that nothing that profound exists there. you can only see it in this artwork or this person. make sense?
thank you, beautifully put, it makes lot of sense to me.<br /> I know 6 years late but I'm here because of their new masterpiece anthology and I had to find the connection between this song and his wife.<br /> it perfectly makes sense this way, though I believe there are almost always various interpretations to Thrice's songs. did anyone else think of Platon's Allegory of the Cave by Silhouette Lies?<br /> <br /> Also a lot of other beautiful interpretations of this and other songs on here. thank you all, many of them made me appreciate Thrice even more!
I dont care what any of you say, Thrice is still great no matter what they do. This song is a masterpeice. Its about a test or something I think, in each verse theres a diffirent meaning in some way. I'll analyze later. But anyway, a fantastic song.
could this be about someone who has been trusted deeply and then betrays them so much that it changes the way they see everything. saying how their eyes are speaking in tongues...it just seems that he can read in her eyes that she has betrayed him..and that his view on life and trust can never be the same....reminds me of my ex g/f... anyway thats just my opinion..
I still haven't heard this song yet, but the lyrics are just amazing.
i can't wait... the new cd's almost here!
Back after the downtime. In the insert Dustin says its about his girlfriend or something like that. He says that he wrote the lyrics to this song on the back of a painting he painted for his girlfriend, who I think is now his wife.
This song...effing great lyrics.
The original lyrics were about his girlfriend-now-wife (shadley). But once he added the "slit my throat" part it was no longer about her. From what I can tell the song is about temptation from the devil and how difficult it is to avoid it.
I had no idea what this song could have mean't.