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.
Imagine the silence racing the timeless.
Holding defenses.
Guiding the blind to exit the lights.
You're following this but
We have the push, it comes from the ocean.
To follow the darkness.
Suffer the most and surface the motion.
Now do you understand?
We are sailing past your lies.
Moving right across your eyes.
We are sailing past these lies.
This is the true direction. This is where we set sail.
The secret's coming out. No use in your resistance.
This is the way back home.
We are the lost then found.
We are the ones called jaded and young
But we have direction.
Shadows have come and in them we run.
A quiet infection.
It started with this place of the fearless.
Taking the dark and
We know the blood that
Spills like a flood.
Now do you understand?
Imagine the silence racing the timeless.
We are the ones called...
Holding defences.
Guiding the blind to exit the lights.
Your shadows have come.
Following this but...
We have the push, it comes from the ocean.
Started with this
To follow the darkness.
Suffer the most and surface the motion.
Now do you understand?
We are sailing past your lies.
Moving right across your eyes.
(Hebrews 12:1-3)
Holding defenses.
Guiding the blind to exit the lights.
You're following this but
We have the push, it comes from the ocean.
To follow the darkness.
Suffer the most and surface the motion.
Now do you understand?
We are sailing past your lies.
Moving right across your eyes.
We are sailing past these lies.
This is the true direction. This is where we set sail.
The secret's coming out. No use in your resistance.
This is the way back home.
We are the lost then found.
We are the ones called jaded and young
But we have direction.
Shadows have come and in them we run.
A quiet infection.
It started with this place of the fearless.
Taking the dark and
We know the blood that
Spills like a flood.
Now do you understand?
Imagine the silence racing the timeless.
We are the ones called...
Holding defences.
Guiding the blind to exit the lights.
Your shadows have come.
Following this but...
We have the push, it comes from the ocean.
Started with this
To follow the darkness.
Suffer the most and surface the motion.
Now do you understand?
We are sailing past your lies.
Moving right across your eyes.
(Hebrews 12:1-3)
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This is the True Direction, this is where we set sail...
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We are sailing past your lies: we are living on the truth of God in the Holy Bible, and cruising right past all of the bads things and lies the devil puts in us....but with the word of God, we sail right past all these temptations, because with the Word of God, we have Jesus....
We are the ones called... Holding defences. Guiding the blind to exit the lights.:
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anyways i hope i answered your, and many other peoples questions...
~ God Bless ~