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.
OH YEAH!!!
the blighting masses
of creatures lusting for the taste of flesh
seep slowly
in your chamber of rotting limbs
die quickly
fiendish cannibals deceased live again
this is the act of ones who had possessed normal lives
may these bullets end our lives
before rising from these wounds
our veins collapse under the grey skin
rebuke us and aim for our fucking heads
twitching bastard torsos crawl up
your legs the contorted dead parade
organs on the streets the scene is grim
a feast bathed in red damned and diseased
the bite has numbed my eyes roll to white I desire nothing but blood and bowels you should have fired that shot when you had the chance teeth are moving through the layers
step through hand ripped disembowled butchered bodies
this empire belongs to the fucking dead palaces built from gore YEAH
this empire belongs to the fucking dead palaces built from gore OH
this empire belongs to the fucking dead palaces built from gore YEAH
this empire belongs to the fucking dead palaces built from gore OH!!!
the blighting masses
of creatures lusting for the taste of flesh
seep slowly
in your chamber of rotting limbs
die quickly
fiendish cannibals deceased live again
this is the act of ones who had possessed normal lives
may these bullets end our lives
before rising from these wounds
our veins collapse under the grey skin
rebuke us and aim for our fucking heads
twitching bastard torsos crawl up
your legs the contorted dead parade
organs on the streets the scene is grim
a feast bathed in red damned and diseased
the bite has numbed my eyes roll to white I desire nothing but blood and bowels you should have fired that shot when you had the chance teeth are moving through the layers
step through hand ripped disembowled butchered bodies
this empire belongs to the fucking dead palaces built from gore YEAH
this empire belongs to the fucking dead palaces built from gore OH
this empire belongs to the fucking dead palaces built from gore YEAH
this empire belongs to the fucking dead palaces built from gore OH!!!
Lyrics submitted by iLL Ronald
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Zombies?
He's describing an outbreak of zombies I'm assuming..
"The contorted dead parade" "The blighting masses of creatures lusting for the taste of flesh"
Pretty obvious...
Love the last breakdown :]
this song is definately about a zombie outbreak. "the bite has numbed my eyes roll to white I desire nothing but blood and bowels" (The victem has been bitten) "step through hand ripped disembowled butchered bodies "(bodies ripped open by zombies)
I think it is about zombies aswell..
But it also be that he is losing his mind, and becomes a cannibal, and wonders why the hell he didn't do that in the first place?