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.
Waiting in the shadows for a license to command
What a beautiful waste of time
Is there something underneath
Is there something to abstract
That I should try to find
Can I believe for a second that they'll let me alone
Once they know what I have seen
Abandoned on the edge of another existance
Hoping that it's all a dream
And when we fall
We'll fall like rain
Never doubting silent trust
To alleviate the pain
But when we fall
We'll fall like rain
Damaged logic forcing me
To find it once again
Try for something that I know is right
Come alive and find atonement
Severed ego I've stolen
Doubt virtual light decides for no one
Trace fractures convincing me to hurt you
In the current there's nothing I don't want to do
Transform and suffer beside me
Cold deference burning up inside me
And when we fall
We'll fall like rain
Never doubting silent trust
Sacrificed in vain
And when we fall
We'll fall like rain
Dreamlogic promise me
You'll find it once again
What I don't know
Something I was once shown
Obsession lies in the firmament
Cognition clarifies the moment
Fault process to terrorize mind over one
Exposing the soul to another
An exercise in blind faith recondition
Fire on the borderland brings a premonition
That civility is a luxury
And fatality's a fucking certainty but
Ability's ignored
I cancel what it's for
I walk into the storm and I try for it once more
With a little more time
Just a little more time
Words
To surrender to the night
What a beautiful waste of time
Is there something underneath
Is there something to abstract
That I should try to find
Can I believe for a second that they'll let me alone
Once they know what I have seen
Abandoned on the edge of another existance
Hoping that it's all a dream
And when we fall
We'll fall like rain
Never doubting silent trust
To alleviate the pain
But when we fall
We'll fall like rain
Damaged logic forcing me
To find it once again
Try for something that I know is right
Come alive and find atonement
Severed ego I've stolen
Doubt virtual light decides for no one
Trace fractures convincing me to hurt you
In the current there's nothing I don't want to do
Transform and suffer beside me
Cold deference burning up inside me
And when we fall
We'll fall like rain
Never doubting silent trust
Sacrificed in vain
And when we fall
We'll fall like rain
Dreamlogic promise me
You'll find it once again
What I don't know
Something I was once shown
Obsession lies in the firmament
Cognition clarifies the moment
Fault process to terrorize mind over one
Exposing the soul to another
An exercise in blind faith recondition
Fire on the borderland brings a premonition
That civility is a luxury
And fatality's a fucking certainty but
Ability's ignored
I cancel what it's for
I walk into the storm and I try for it once more
With a little more time
Just a little more time
Words
To surrender to the night
Lyrics submitted by darkereflection
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