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.
We all need to feel safe
Then that's taken away
Sometimes I want to return
Return to before
The trouble began
That time of no fear
By showing you I'm
Sensitive
You do risk
Being crucified
Crucified by
Those you are unlike
My feelings are hurt so easily
That is the price that I I pay
The price that I do pay
To appreciate
The beauty they're killing
The beauty they're busy killing
If the sun going down
Can make me cry
Why should I
Why should I
Why should I not
Like the way I am?
My feelings are hurt so easily
That is the price that I I pay
The price that I do pay
To appreciate
The beauty they're killing
The beauty they're busy killing
Killing
Killing
Killing
Then that's taken away
Sometimes I want to return
Return to before
The trouble began
That time of no fear
By showing you I'm
Sensitive
You do risk
Being crucified
Crucified by
Those you are unlike
My feelings are hurt so easily
That is the price that I I pay
The price that I do pay
To appreciate
The beauty they're killing
The beauty they're busy killing
If the sun going down
Can make me cry
Why should I
Why should I
Why should I not
Like the way I am?
My feelings are hurt so easily
That is the price that I I pay
The price that I do pay
To appreciate
The beauty they're killing
The beauty they're busy killing
Killing
Killing
Killing
Lyrics submitted by r0cketbabyd0ll
Sensitive Lyrics as written by Joseph Camburn Johnson Alan Steven Leach
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group
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"By showing you I'm sensitive you do risk being crucified crucified by those you are unlike" Rather than being about literally being sensitive. I think it's more about the world being divided essentially into 2 kinds of people. People who think about their life, feel the pain and the beauty of it with a primacy and passion. And people who just go along with their life, without questioning it, and are how they are. It tends to be the case, especially in adolescents, that the more "sensitive" people are ridiculed and "crucified" by the nastier of the others. He is saying that if he is more open with his friend about his way of thinking, they will be mocked by the thoughtless, offensive beings he fears.
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it's about being open about being a sensitive person; being able to freely admit crying at sunsets etc even though you're likely to get 'crucified' by those you don't like
I love this song. It's witty and emotional like all the best songs released on Sarah Records.
This is the song I want to have played when she and I are finally allowed to be together forever. After we defy the world and do it our way. When nobody can prevent us any longer, when it's just the two of us.
Still love you Angel more than everything else in the world put together.
Forever.
Even though the lyrics are correct here as posted...
By showing you I'm Sensitive You do risk Being crucified Crucified by Those you are unlike
....I'm sure that part is meant to say:
By showing you I'm Sensitive I do risk Being crucified Crucified by Those I am unlike
Anyway, I used to think this was a relatively simple song about just being different and literally more sensitive than most people, but ever since I discovered how sinister this world actually is compared to how it was before dark forces took control, I now believe it transcends ages and "that time of no fear before the trouble began" covers a past life or past lives when humanity lived in peace and harmony, so unlike how things are now.
And it always really got to me the way he says "the price that I do pay to appreciate the beauty they're killing, the beauty they're busy killing..." but it's now taken on so much more meaning after realizing just how much this dark world really is all about killing off anything and everything that's good and innocent, and instead encouraging and bringing out the worst tendencies and ugliness in people and things.