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.
First day, I was lost at sea
I had nothing to eat
But I thought home was near
I found myself in an
Unfamiliar place
My first night
On an unfamiliar tide
Second day I woke up
Had almost forgotten
I had never thought to
Try on different colored robes
And I was face down in the in the sand
And I was lucky to be alive
Lucky to have survived
And on the third day
I was weak so I
Collapsed on the beach
And I died of hunger
And when they found me
They saw how much that
I had changed, I had changed
I had
I have changed, I have
I have changed, I have
I have changed, I have
I have changed, I have
I had nothing to eat
But I thought home was near
I found myself in an
Unfamiliar place
My first night
On an unfamiliar tide
Second day I woke up
Had almost forgotten
I had never thought to
Try on different colored robes
And I was face down in the in the sand
And I was lucky to be alive
Lucky to have survived
And on the third day
I was weak so I
Collapsed on the beach
And I died of hunger
And when they found me
They saw how much that
I had changed, I had changed
I had
I have changed, I have
I have changed, I have
I have changed, I have
I have changed, I have
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Indeed this song is so gorgeous I had to signup just to comment. I'd love to know what it meant to Dekker.
man, i think wronggirl's probably right, but i listen to this song and i just think of myself, shouting silently at the world, ya know? i've chnaged! i'm different! and then, other times, i think it's just me saying it to myself, telling myself that i'm different than i used to be, i'm not the same person. but regardless of that, everytime i listen to this song, i have an incredible feeling of melancholy, i get a case of the soudades. it's almost like a lament at times long past, things that are no more. i've changed, i wish i could go back to who i was, what i was. hmm, this is hard to cast my feelings on this song into form...
oh, and notidaho, i also signed up for songmeanings just because of my desire to say something about this song, too.
Am I allowed to feel surprised that there are no comments to this song yet? Simply effin' gorgeous; I tend to go into a sort of trance everytime it comes on the stereo or ol' headphones.
Delicately tragic...I'll just say that and skip the literal interpretation, whatever it may be.
I relate to this song so much. Absolutely amazing, and apparently underrated.
i have changed, i have. my god.
this is one of those songs you don't explain.