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.
We can insist on havoc
Bring me the tools
Pleasure our insides
You said, leave me for dead
How can you love
Program the head?
We get so fed up with it
Nuts and bolts for granted
Run, I can do it
As your bodies fall apart
Robotic love
I'm programmed to rust
AIDS robot
Is grinding iron bolts
Robot hunks have one agenda
They wanna play with my placenta
Are we now deserving
When our cyborg parts are burning?
I know we're just diseased appliances
Where will you live?
What will you die for?
Sex is killing me
Baby, I know
Wrong time, wrong place, wrong fucking race
Just because we don't feel flesh
Doesn't mean we don't fear death
Bring me the tools
Pleasure our insides
You said, leave me for dead
How can you love
Program the head?
We get so fed up with it
Nuts and bolts for granted
Run, I can do it
As your bodies fall apart
Robotic love
I'm programmed to rust
AIDS robot
Is grinding iron bolts
Robot hunks have one agenda
They wanna play with my placenta
Are we now deserving
When our cyborg parts are burning?
I know we're just diseased appliances
Where will you live?
What will you die for?
Sex is killing me
Baby, I know
Wrong time, wrong place, wrong fucking race
Just because we don't feel flesh
Doesn't mean we don't fear death
Lyrics submitted by StuffLikeHearts, edited by basementbobcat, richlesbian, spraypaintedki
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