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 drove alone to Buffalo
And scratched a heart around your name
At every rest stop vending machine I passed along the way
(I’d taken speed for days)
I took pictures from the car window
These colored blurs of time
And left them for you by the pay phones
Because I can’t call or write
It’s just been too much time
The road was without winter glow
Just dreary landscape
And the whimper of the radio
And a rubberbanded picture of your face
Around an old mixtape you’d made
I still think I’m going home
I packed my things in crooked lines,
And took a pill nicknamed hope
To change this mood of mine
This awful mood of mine
But I can’t change this mood of mine
Like a mocking dog and pony show
In the backrooms of my mind
Like a swim in the undertow
I can’t see it but I sure feel it alright
I miss you every night.
And scratched a heart around your name
At every rest stop vending machine I passed along the way
(I’d taken speed for days)
I took pictures from the car window
These colored blurs of time
And left them for you by the pay phones
Because I can’t call or write
It’s just been too much time
The road was without winter glow
Just dreary landscape
And the whimper of the radio
And a rubberbanded picture of your face
Around an old mixtape you’d made
I still think I’m going home
I packed my things in crooked lines,
And took a pill nicknamed hope
To change this mood of mine
This awful mood of mine
But I can’t change this mood of mine
Like a mocking dog and pony show
In the backrooms of my mind
Like a swim in the undertow
I can’t see it but I sure feel it alright
I miss you every night.
Lyrics submitted by myslumberingheart
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