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.
There's a kid with a golden arm
He admits to the forest fire
That he started up from a lack of something better going on
This kid with the golden arm
He admits to the forest fire
That he started up from a lack of something better going on
Tell your friends it's a four alarm
Just a smoke screen we're all liars
Better to stew in discontent then to admit we?re wrong
Our motivations out to sea
And our ideas they die so quickly
This town has good hearts
Bad blood emotional scars
Never get to say what you really want to say
This town has good hearts
Bad blood emotional scars
Never get to say what you really want to say
We all lie so well
We all lie so well
There's a kid with a golden arm
He admits to the forest fire
That he started up from a lack of something better going on
Tell your friends it's a four alarm
Just a smoke screen we're all liars
Better to stew in discontent then to admit we?re wrong
If misery loves company
Then it seems to swim so much more forcibly
In the song of other peoples failures
Doctor do you have a remedy
Doctor this is not alright by me
Do you think that you have the strength for the city
That sells fantasy
We all lie so well
We all lie so well
He admits to the forest fire
That he started up from a lack of something better going on
This kid with the golden arm
He admits to the forest fire
That he started up from a lack of something better going on
Tell your friends it's a four alarm
Just a smoke screen we're all liars
Better to stew in discontent then to admit we?re wrong
Our motivations out to sea
And our ideas they die so quickly
This town has good hearts
Bad blood emotional scars
Never get to say what you really want to say
This town has good hearts
Bad blood emotional scars
Never get to say what you really want to say
We all lie so well
We all lie so well
There's a kid with a golden arm
He admits to the forest fire
That he started up from a lack of something better going on
Tell your friends it's a four alarm
Just a smoke screen we're all liars
Better to stew in discontent then to admit we?re wrong
If misery loves company
Then it seems to swim so much more forcibly
In the song of other peoples failures
Doctor do you have a remedy
Doctor this is not alright by me
Do you think that you have the strength for the city
That sells fantasy
We all lie so well
We all lie so well
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