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.
Trust the black inside and suffocate the light in me
Throw the stones that kills the truth
Deception must be absolute
Rape the mind that will not die
Its sharpest throes must multiply
Dementia unresisted
Psycosis of the mind
Generation X termination
The blind leading the blind
Towards the end of the earth
Sweat cyanide seduction
Grown numb from the poison
That guides mankind beyond all
hopes of rebirth
Tear further into violence
And send forth the blade that
slaughter each cell
Stillbirth redemption
Sterility dances to the rapturous
sound of the knell
Let fevers rage and ravage
The deluded minds of all
Surrender to atrocity
And yeild by our fall
Stigmata children
Malady spawn
Downward resolution
The coming of dawn
Sacrilege sanctity
Pestilent seat
Dominion emerging
A world at their feet
Infidel armies
Viral release
Consensual redeemers
Penitence of disease
Weavers of famine
Starvation made whole
Their sepulchres spreading
Fulfilling their role
Sickness overcomes us
Past plagues ressurect
Generation X termination
The blind leading the blind
Towards the end of the earth
Sweat cyanide seduction
Grown numb from the poison
That guides mankind beyond all
hopes of rebirth
Let firestorms rend their emerald cloakes
Over a world that judgement provokes
Assailing retribution
The end of the line
Prosperity goes under hatred divine
Like bloody waves on shores alight
A devil soils with black What's white
And as he treads to sow his sead
He rides the earth of its
scavanger breed
The seas in rising tidal flow
Its liquid curse on us bestow
A killing force within us hide
Breeding wrath
World suicide
Generation X termination
The blind leading the blind
Towards the end of the earth
Sweat cyanide seduction
Grown numb from the poison
That guides mankind beyond all
hopes of rebirth
Tear further into violence
And send forth the blade that
slaughter each cell
Stillbirth redemption
Sterility dances to the rapturous
sound of the knell
Lyrics submitted by Legion1349
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