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.
All felt is hope to spilling over
Needs are a passing memory fear not worthy
Belief, a martyr's burden
Heaved upon capable shoulders
Dissuade your charge
Arrive in commonplace with the elect
The furthest plateau
Inside the souls of saints
The old dog has to learn a new trick and more
Or the next trick will be on him
I've drank the oceans dry, I've stopped the time
Embraced the riddle of regret
(Again and again)
Desire, haunt me long
The light of three suns and one star
Watch over me
A square will never fit a circle
No hope, no joke, both bookends burned
I've drown in oceans mine, I woke the dead
And still the dry bones live again
(And again with me)
Desire, haunt me long
The light of three suns and one star
No higher, keeps us strong
The light of three suns and one star
Watching over me
In me, watching closely over me
In we, moving within you and me
In deep, our own ideology
Oh yeah, yeah
In me
In me
In me
In me, staring through and through to me
X-ray, hanged for all to see
Naked, frenzied and we're free
Our own ideology
Desire, haunt me long
The light of three suns and one star
No higher, keeps us strong
The light of three suns and one star
Watch me
Three suns and one star
(Watch over me)
Three suns and one star
(Watch over me)
Three suns and one star
(Watch over me)
Three suns and one star
Oh yeah
Three suns, one star
Three suns, one star
Three suns, one star
Needs are a passing memory fear not worthy
Belief, a martyr's burden
Heaved upon capable shoulders
Dissuade your charge
Arrive in commonplace with the elect
The furthest plateau
Inside the souls of saints
The old dog has to learn a new trick and more
Or the next trick will be on him
I've drank the oceans dry, I've stopped the time
Embraced the riddle of regret
(Again and again)
Desire, haunt me long
The light of three suns and one star
Watch over me
A square will never fit a circle
No hope, no joke, both bookends burned
I've drown in oceans mine, I woke the dead
And still the dry bones live again
(And again with me)
Desire, haunt me long
The light of three suns and one star
No higher, keeps us strong
The light of three suns and one star
Watching over me
In me, watching closely over me
In we, moving within you and me
In deep, our own ideology
Oh yeah, yeah
In me
In me
In me
In me, staring through and through to me
X-ray, hanged for all to see
Naked, frenzied and we're free
Our own ideology
Desire, haunt me long
The light of three suns and one star
No higher, keeps us strong
The light of three suns and one star
Watch me
Three suns and one star
(Watch over me)
Three suns and one star
(Watch over me)
Three suns and one star
(Watch over me)
Three suns and one star
Oh yeah
Three suns, one star
Three suns, one star
Three suns, one star
Lyrics submitted by BobbyjointRitual
Three Suns and One Star Lyrics as written by Kirk Windstein Jimmy Bower
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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