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.
Skin and bone
Skin and bone
Skin and bone
Check yah
skin and bone
Skin and
Skin and bone
Skin and bone
Obviously weak
The flesh could be
The payee center
Bones could be the fee
Skin and bone
Curses cursive
Documents that be
Skin and bone
Hollow humble
Harvesting the meek
I know skin graph
Get your skin back
Like a transplant
Skin black
See the sin that
Broke a dead man
Smidgen
Or a bed bug
With a black hat
Weak bones
Under these stones
Where's the mat at
Welcome home
Check your skin tone
At the entrance
Melonin
Don't go selling in
For a thumb tack
White bones love to be strong
Til their skin shows
Peeling back the curtain
For the moral, I think
And weather they swim
Or they drowned
We still watch as they sink
(We still watch as they are)
Skin and bone
Skin and bone
Obviously weak
The flesh could be
The payee center
Bones could be the fee
Skin and bone
Curses cursive
Documents that be
Skin and bone
Hollow humble
Harvesting the meek
Are you harvesting the meek
Skin and bone
Skin and bone
Skin and bone is hollow
But its where the heart lives
Sword or shield
Swore to kill
All your pigment is
Belly of the beast
The bottom barrel of a bitch
I know I might take my life
Because I'm one hell of a mix
Skin and bone
Bring me home
Show me underneath
Hollow man
Hollowing
Under a white shieth
Born to kill
Born to steal
But the roles reversed
Gaslight like its sunlight
Like its uptight
But its cursed
Hope the sunlight might just
Purify the earth
And leave us burnt
And blackened as the dirt
For what its worth
We've been here first
They're stealing everyone
Every heart
And every mind
And every golden child
That's young oh
I can't just watch them work
Pig belong in blanket
In a herse
I'll make sure all are murked
Them dealings all for hurt
An awful love
An awful trust
They use our own against us
Skin and bone
Skin and bone
Obviously weak
The flesh could be
The payee center
Bones could be the fee
Skin and bone
Curses cursive
Documents that be
Skin and bone
Hollow humble
Harvesting the meek
Harvesting the meek
Humble harvesting the meek
(Harvesting the meek)
Skin and bone
Skin and bone
Check yah
skin and bone
Skin and
Skin and bone
Skin and bone
Obviously weak
The flesh could be
The payee center
Bones could be the fee
Skin and bone
Curses cursive
Documents that be
Skin and bone
Hollow humble
Harvesting the meek
I know skin graph
Get your skin back
Like a transplant
Skin black
See the sin that
Broke a dead man
Smidgen
Or a bed bug
With a black hat
Weak bones
Under these stones
Where's the mat at
Welcome home
Check your skin tone
At the entrance
Melonin
Don't go selling in
For a thumb tack
White bones love to be strong
Til their skin shows
Peeling back the curtain
For the moral, I think
And weather they swim
Or they drowned
We still watch as they sink
(We still watch as they are)
Skin and bone
Skin and bone
Obviously weak
The flesh could be
The payee center
Bones could be the fee
Skin and bone
Curses cursive
Documents that be
Skin and bone
Hollow humble
Harvesting the meek
Are you harvesting the meek
Skin and bone
Skin and bone
Skin and bone is hollow
But its where the heart lives
Sword or shield
Swore to kill
All your pigment is
Belly of the beast
The bottom barrel of a bitch
I know I might take my life
Because I'm one hell of a mix
Skin and bone
Bring me home
Show me underneath
Hollow man
Hollowing
Under a white shieth
Born to kill
Born to steal
But the roles reversed
Gaslight like its sunlight
Like its uptight
But its cursed
Hope the sunlight might just
Purify the earth
And leave us burnt
And blackened as the dirt
For what its worth
We've been here first
They're stealing everyone
Every heart
And every mind
And every golden child
That's young oh
I can't just watch them work
Pig belong in blanket
In a herse
I'll make sure all are murked
Them dealings all for hurt
An awful love
An awful trust
They use our own against us
Skin and bone
Skin and bone
Obviously weak
The flesh could be
The payee center
Bones could be the fee
Skin and bone
Curses cursive
Documents that be
Skin and bone
Hollow humble
Harvesting the meek
Harvesting the meek
Humble harvesting the meek
(Harvesting the meek)
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