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.
Grave insomnia has now obtained my strung out mind. Robbed
of the one place that gives me solitude from them. I must now
face the perfected madness that will eat me as I'm slowly turning
into what I dread.
Deprived of sight, my introverted eyes guides my awake steps into
sinfulness. Profane is the soul purpose here, I know it and still I
let my inner steer me.
I am becoming the infestation, now it's clear what I intend to do
As I reach the house of god I'll take and keep my price forever.
Render my prey as I descend, render my prey.
Web of cords stretched from heel to throat. With Iron ropes I
strap him down and hard. The blood in my plams shimmers with
the rust. Caught in a lonesome sermon he never saw me come.
Dragged out from his abode, a robe of the fallen now bestowed.
Useless struggling for it's not my mind that drives my actions
It is clearly a non human authority.
Solo: O'Brien
Candles of a thousand not lit by hands of man. In my blinded
darkness, lights my depraved path.
Where's my solace, this deed gave me no fractions of inner peace
Although I know I have him alive, a purpose I dear not quest for
nor implement.
Through serpent eyes I watch my hands do carnal damage
as they hung him up, swinging from the ceiling upside down.
Render my prey as I descend, render my prey
Web of cords stretched from heel to throat. With Iron ropes I
strap him down and hard. The blood in my plams shimmers with
the rust. Caught in a lonesome sermon he never saw me come
of the one place that gives me solitude from them. I must now
face the perfected madness that will eat me as I'm slowly turning
into what I dread.
Deprived of sight, my introverted eyes guides my awake steps into
sinfulness. Profane is the soul purpose here, I know it and still I
let my inner steer me.
I am becoming the infestation, now it's clear what I intend to do
As I reach the house of god I'll take and keep my price forever.
Render my prey as I descend, render my prey.
Web of cords stretched from heel to throat. With Iron ropes I
strap him down and hard. The blood in my plams shimmers with
the rust. Caught in a lonesome sermon he never saw me come.
Dragged out from his abode, a robe of the fallen now bestowed.
Useless struggling for it's not my mind that drives my actions
It is clearly a non human authority.
Solo: O'Brien
Candles of a thousand not lit by hands of man. In my blinded
darkness, lights my depraved path.
Where's my solace, this deed gave me no fractions of inner peace
Although I know I have him alive, a purpose I dear not quest for
nor implement.
Through serpent eyes I watch my hands do carnal damage
as they hung him up, swinging from the ceiling upside down.
Render my prey as I descend, render my prey
Web of cords stretched from heel to throat. With Iron ropes I
strap him down and hard. The blood in my plams shimmers with
the rust. Caught in a lonesome sermon he never saw me come
Lyrics submitted by DreamingInTheÆther
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