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.
Spinning inside, rotting away.
Something inside of me's
been taken away.
Feeling my heart breaking in vain.
It won't get better now,
WHEN WILL THIS END?
I can't seem to get away.
I feel I'm here so you can play
with my head.
There's nothing I can say.
I keep feeling like I'm to blame.
When will this end?
Hopeless inside, alone as I wait.
Brewing inside of me
enduring this hate.
Feeling my heart breaking in vain.
It won't get better now,
WHEN WILL THIS END?
I can't seem to get away.
I feel I'm here so you can play
with my head.
There's nothing I can say.
I keep feeling like I'm to blame.
When will this end?
The stress is rising and I
can't seem to get away from you.
You're always trying and the lying always shines right through.
My God I hate this,
always take shit.
Can I let this go on?
Why can't I break this?
I just take this
as it goes on and on.
END!
WHEN WILL THIS END? {x7}
I can't seem to get away.
I feel I'm here so you can play
with my head.
There's nothing I can say.
I keep feeling like I'm to blame.
When will this end?
One
I can't remember anything.
Can't tell if this is true or dream.
Deep down inside I feel to scream.
This terrible silence stops me.
Now that the war is through with me,
I'm waking up I cannot see
that there's not much left in me.
Nothing is real but pain now.
Hold my breath as I wish for death.
Oh please, God wake me.
Back in the womb it's much too real.
In pumps life that I must feel.
But can't look foreward to reveal.
Look to the time when I live.
Fed through the tube that sticks in me
just like a wartime novelty.
Tied to machines that make me be.
Cut this life out from me.
Hold my breath as I wish for death.
Oh please, God wake me.
Now the world is gone, I'm just one.
Oh God, help me.
Hold my breath as I wish for death.
Oh please, God wake me.
Darkness imprisoning me.
All that I see, absolute horror.
I cannot live, I cannot die.
Trapped in myself,
body my holding cell.
Land mine has taken my sight,
taken my speech, taken my hearing,
taken my arms, taken my legs,
taken my soul, left me with life in hell!
Something inside of me's
been taken away.
Feeling my heart breaking in vain.
It won't get better now,
WHEN WILL THIS END?
I can't seem to get away.
I feel I'm here so you can play
with my head.
There's nothing I can say.
I keep feeling like I'm to blame.
When will this end?
Hopeless inside, alone as I wait.
Brewing inside of me
enduring this hate.
Feeling my heart breaking in vain.
It won't get better now,
WHEN WILL THIS END?
I can't seem to get away.
I feel I'm here so you can play
with my head.
There's nothing I can say.
I keep feeling like I'm to blame.
When will this end?
The stress is rising and I
can't seem to get away from you.
You're always trying and the lying always shines right through.
My God I hate this,
always take shit.
Can I let this go on?
Why can't I break this?
I just take this
as it goes on and on.
END!
WHEN WILL THIS END? {x7}
I can't seem to get away.
I feel I'm here so you can play
with my head.
There's nothing I can say.
I keep feeling like I'm to blame.
When will this end?
One
I can't remember anything.
Can't tell if this is true or dream.
Deep down inside I feel to scream.
This terrible silence stops me.
Now that the war is through with me,
I'm waking up I cannot see
that there's not much left in me.
Nothing is real but pain now.
Hold my breath as I wish for death.
Oh please, God wake me.
Back in the womb it's much too real.
In pumps life that I must feel.
But can't look foreward to reveal.
Look to the time when I live.
Fed through the tube that sticks in me
just like a wartime novelty.
Tied to machines that make me be.
Cut this life out from me.
Hold my breath as I wish for death.
Oh please, God wake me.
Now the world is gone, I'm just one.
Oh God, help me.
Hold my breath as I wish for death.
Oh please, God wake me.
Darkness imprisoning me.
All that I see, absolute horror.
I cannot live, I cannot die.
Trapped in myself,
body my holding cell.
Land mine has taken my sight,
taken my speech, taken my hearing,
taken my arms, taken my legs,
taken my soul, left me with life in hell!
Lyrics submitted by king nothing2
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