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.
Saturday
I could feel the crowd's dismay
They've acquired quite a fire
To burn the profane on a funeral pyre
Voices shrill
Cutting silence like they mean to kill
Some pep rally where we scream His name
Like God was losing in a football game
I don't want to waste His name this time
I will never cast him to the swine
Grasping at some feeling you once knew
Is nothing sacred ever safe with you?
Silver tongues
All the spirit of an iron lung
Selling highs as if we needed one
Flash the lights so not to be outdone
Counterfeit
Wanting joy so much we take a hit
Like a tapeworm deep in hunger digs
Waste the sacred
Just to feed these pigs
If this is real, then you must find it
Between the space of grace and grim
It's nothing you can manufacture
Your walls cannot contain Him
I could feel the crowd's dismay
They've acquired quite a fire
To burn the profane on a funeral pyre
Voices shrill
Cutting silence like they mean to kill
Some pep rally where we scream His name
Like God was losing in a football game
I don't want to waste His name this time
I will never cast him to the swine
Grasping at some feeling you once knew
Is nothing sacred ever safe with you?
Silver tongues
All the spirit of an iron lung
Selling highs as if we needed one
Flash the lights so not to be outdone
Counterfeit
Wanting joy so much we take a hit
Like a tapeworm deep in hunger digs
Waste the sacred
Just to feed these pigs
If this is real, then you must find it
Between the space of grace and grim
It's nothing you can manufacture
Your walls cannot contain Him
Lyrics submitted by musicandnintendo
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All right, I busted out my dictionary and here's what I found. I think the pigs in this song refer to the unGodly people in this world, the people who are take God out of everything in this world. In the song It says "I don't want to waste His name this time I will never cast him to the swine", it means that he has given in at one time or another to these people and he regrets it. And the second part is like what I said before, people lose faith in God and they try to manufacture this God in there mind and they don't really know Him, because they lose their want to know Him.