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.
Violence
Pains this guy
Was a fearsome joy
Shooting blazing bursting
How I'm pouring sweetness
That I served inside
Was this profusion
And (wanted) it fills me up
Was this profusion
And (wanted) it fills me up
And I going
And I'm coming in now
And I feel it
Cannot be nowhere now
And I go
Here I am
Where I go I?
Cannot say
You are me and you are where I am
You smashed a hornet's nest
They swarm around inside
They hope to seek revenge
Slowly suffocate
In a bliss fragrance my core atomises
Deep in me gardenias bloom
(Pop!) For you
Splendid confusion
Hornets swarm inside
Pounds against refusion
Splendid confusion
And I going
And I'm coming in now
And I feel it
Cannot be nowhere now
And I go
Here I am
Where I go I?
Cannot say
You are me and you are where I am
Pains this guy
Was a fearsome joy
Shooting blazing bursting
How I'm pouring sweetness
That I served inside
Was this profusion
And (wanted) it fills me up
Was this profusion
And (wanted) it fills me up
And I going
And I'm coming in now
And I feel it
Cannot be nowhere now
And I go
Here I am
Where I go I?
Cannot say
You are me and you are where I am
You smashed a hornet's nest
They swarm around inside
They hope to seek revenge
Slowly suffocate
In a bliss fragrance my core atomises
Deep in me gardenias bloom
(Pop!) For you
Splendid confusion
Hornets swarm inside
Pounds against refusion
Splendid confusion
And I going
And I'm coming in now
And I feel it
Cannot be nowhere now
And I go
Here I am
Where I go I?
Cannot say
You are me and you are where I am
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violence paints the sky
Some of these lyrics are way off: the first line should be "Violence, paints the sky." Am I alone in thinking that this song is about the World Trade Center attack? I hadn't really ever thought about it before watching the video, where someone (presumably Fischer or Spooner?) is talking about it, being unable to look away. The first line fits in with that interpretation, and if the rest of the song excessively vague, lines like "You smashed the hornets' nest/They swarm around inside/Hope to seek revenge" make sense in a particularly disturbing way. I think it's got to do with watching the events in real time and giving yourself up to the confusion, the "fearsome joy" that's like watching a movie right in front of you, except hundreds of people are really dying.
Actually this entire song is about ejaculation. "How I'm pouring sweetness" and "(POP) For you". I am not kidding this song is about one giant male orgasm.
first off this is NOT about 9/11 and was written long before that
the genius of this song is it can be taken a few ways, watch the video its an amazing montage of sex and blood- its beautiful and makes fun of itself
that said its both an orgasm and a heart breaking
some of the lyrics are off too