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.
I hold up my hands
I stare
And they are clean, untainted by the world
All I can do is sit and think
Think of what I could have changed
"Why, oh why", I ask the sky
In return all I hear is thunder
Blinded by my light, my day
Guided by my faith through the garden
Bless me while I make my stand
Watching, waiting for the storm
Comfort cannot compensate
Nothing could replace your arms
One sigh away from going mad
Reason hanging by a thread
Scrawled on the wall in tears and blood, these will be my final words
No tears
No sorrow
I’ll wait for tomorrow
I gave everything I had
I gave everything I did not
All this time
All that time
This is not the way it was
Faceless figures in the dark gesture me to join their cause
I stand by what I believe even though I know the reality
Drain me of the dreams I’ve earned
Strip me of the pain
Make me one again
Find another way to breathe
I no longer give you consent
Lay the noose around my neck
Tie me to the stars above
Scrawled on the wall in tears and blood, these will be my final words
No tears
No sorrow
I’ll wait for tomorrow
Now
Here on this day
It begins
Pure innocence
Gone with doubt
Hold my flight up above
Cry your name to the wind
Wind my mind back to where I began
Try to accept my role in this game
I’ll wait here for my time
I lived a lie and it made me one
I felt complete
I felt whole
I take it back, as I
Fall to my knees and reach for the sky
Take my eyes and make me one with the night
Use my fears to make this slow
Take my life and tell me who I should be
Pray I cannot call this home
Shrine
Take me alive to your hive
Vacate your throne as I die
Rain for days
Melt away
Bring me down
Bring me home
Have you come to wash my sins away
This, I wonder
You’ve turned blackest night to crystal
Yet, I wonder
Granted, every day I am dying
Still, I wonder
Why have you relinquished your life
This, I wonder
Nothing seems the same now that you are gone
I’ll wait, I’ll wait
For my star to fall with your name engraved
I’ll wait, I’ll wait
Still, I know the truth and what lies within
Wake up, please wake up
This is killing me and all that I am
Wake up, please wake up
What else do I have? What else do I want?
I’ll wait, I’ll wait
I won’t see the world like I did before
I’ll wait, I’ll wait
Day by day, I live, while I wait to die
Wake up, please wake up
Nothing seems the same now that you are gone
Wake up, please wake up and make it stop
I hold up my hands
I stare
And they are broken beyond all repair
All I can do is sit and think
Wondering how much more I’ll sink
"Why, oh why", I ask the sky
Silence is its sole reply
Blinded by my light, my day
Light that once led my way
Bless me while I make my stand
Fighting for this cursed land
Comfort cannot compensate
I have not yet begun to hate
One sigh away from going mad
Now I am one short of what I once had
How could I, in all my time, destroy something so divine
Breathe in the sky
Bleed out the night
Breathe sky just to bleed night; I can’t breathe
I hold up my hands
I stare
And they are broken beyond all repair
The sun, the moon, the earth, and the rain
All you ever gave was pain
Without you, I am damned
Forsaken
Forgotten
I stare
And they are clean, untainted by the world
All I can do is sit and think
Think of what I could have changed
"Why, oh why", I ask the sky
In return all I hear is thunder
Blinded by my light, my day
Guided by my faith through the garden
Bless me while I make my stand
Watching, waiting for the storm
Comfort cannot compensate
Nothing could replace your arms
One sigh away from going mad
Reason hanging by a thread
Scrawled on the wall in tears and blood, these will be my final words
No tears
No sorrow
I’ll wait for tomorrow
I gave everything I had
I gave everything I did not
All this time
All that time
This is not the way it was
Faceless figures in the dark gesture me to join their cause
I stand by what I believe even though I know the reality
Drain me of the dreams I’ve earned
Strip me of the pain
Make me one again
Find another way to breathe
I no longer give you consent
Lay the noose around my neck
Tie me to the stars above
Scrawled on the wall in tears and blood, these will be my final words
No tears
No sorrow
I’ll wait for tomorrow
Now
Here on this day
It begins
Pure innocence
Gone with doubt
Hold my flight up above
Cry your name to the wind
Wind my mind back to where I began
Try to accept my role in this game
I’ll wait here for my time
I lived a lie and it made me one
I felt complete
I felt whole
I take it back, as I
Fall to my knees and reach for the sky
Take my eyes and make me one with the night
Use my fears to make this slow
Take my life and tell me who I should be
Pray I cannot call this home
Shrine
Take me alive to your hive
Vacate your throne as I die
Rain for days
Melt away
Bring me down
Bring me home
Have you come to wash my sins away
This, I wonder
You’ve turned blackest night to crystal
Yet, I wonder
Granted, every day I am dying
Still, I wonder
Why have you relinquished your life
This, I wonder
Nothing seems the same now that you are gone
I’ll wait, I’ll wait
For my star to fall with your name engraved
I’ll wait, I’ll wait
Still, I know the truth and what lies within
Wake up, please wake up
This is killing me and all that I am
Wake up, please wake up
What else do I have? What else do I want?
I’ll wait, I’ll wait
I won’t see the world like I did before
I’ll wait, I’ll wait
Day by day, I live, while I wait to die
Wake up, please wake up
Nothing seems the same now that you are gone
Wake up, please wake up and make it stop
I hold up my hands
I stare
And they are broken beyond all repair
All I can do is sit and think
Wondering how much more I’ll sink
"Why, oh why", I ask the sky
Silence is its sole reply
Blinded by my light, my day
Light that once led my way
Bless me while I make my stand
Fighting for this cursed land
Comfort cannot compensate
I have not yet begun to hate
One sigh away from going mad
Now I am one short of what I once had
How could I, in all my time, destroy something so divine
Breathe in the sky
Bleed out the night
Breathe sky just to bleed night; I can’t breathe
I hold up my hands
I stare
And they are broken beyond all repair
The sun, the moon, the earth, and the rain
All you ever gave was pain
Without you, I am damned
Forsaken
Forgotten
Lyrics submitted by KrudeDuse
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