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.
Rain fell that day when the sky went black on everyone
These things we're told not to talk about, not to
Anyone
When You fell you took the fall for everything that I
Had ever done
So help me never forget just how beautiful the sky
Could be
You have lifted me just like the taste of falling rain
And my world has never felt, it has never felt the same
Yesterday I was six feet under ground and now I'm on my
Knees
And I can't explain, I can't explain any of this
It's coming down I close my eyes to feel the rain like
It could wash away a thousand years of heartbreak
So just a little, let the rain fall down
Oh oh oh oh
Wash away these wounds that cut me down
Oh oh oh oh
You have lifted me just like the taste of falling rain
And my world has never felt, it has never felt the same
Yesterday I was six feet under ground and now I'm on my
Knees
And I can't explain, I can't explain any of this
Today we'll start again the second we open up our eyes
You have lifted me just like the taste of falling rain
And my world has never felt, it has never felt the same
You have lifted me just like the taste of falling rain
And my world has never felt, it has never felt the same
Yesterday I was six feet under ground and now I'm on my
Knees
And I can't explain, I can't explain any of this
Yesterday I was six feet under ground and now I'm on my
Knees
And I can't explain, I can't explain any of this
These things we're told not to talk about, not to
Anyone
When You fell you took the fall for everything that I
Had ever done
So help me never forget just how beautiful the sky
Could be
You have lifted me just like the taste of falling rain
And my world has never felt, it has never felt the same
Yesterday I was six feet under ground and now I'm on my
Knees
And I can't explain, I can't explain any of this
It's coming down I close my eyes to feel the rain like
It could wash away a thousand years of heartbreak
So just a little, let the rain fall down
Oh oh oh oh
Wash away these wounds that cut me down
Oh oh oh oh
You have lifted me just like the taste of falling rain
And my world has never felt, it has never felt the same
Yesterday I was six feet under ground and now I'm on my
Knees
And I can't explain, I can't explain any of this
Today we'll start again the second we open up our eyes
You have lifted me just like the taste of falling rain
And my world has never felt, it has never felt the same
You have lifted me just like the taste of falling rain
And my world has never felt, it has never felt the same
Yesterday I was six feet under ground and now I'm on my
Knees
And I can't explain, I can't explain any of this
Yesterday I was six feet under ground and now I'm on my
Knees
And I can't explain, I can't explain any of this
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Can't Explain Lyrics as written by Hugo Peretti George Weiss
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Rain fell that day when the sky went black on everyone These things we're told not to talk about, not to anyone When You fell you took the fall for everything that I had ever done So help me never forget just how beautiful the sky could be
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