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.
Through my heart
Through my heart
Through my heart
Through my heart
As I watched those buildings fall
Saw the writing on the wall
In the underground the prophets spoke of triggers for a war
They’d been leaking out a plan
A new world order, understand?
And I stood there feeling like someone had planned it years before
Years before
Years before
Eerie theory, fact or theory
I see the game they're playing way down town, open ground
Feeling like it's going to bring you down
Eerie theory, fact or theory
I see the game they're playing way down town, open ground
Feeling like it's going to bring us down
Through my heart
Through my heart
Through my heart
Through my heart
Lusitania had to go
Stage was set to start the show
And I heard the sound of Alice chasing rabbits down a hole
Gulf of Tonkin, Vietnam
Yes Franklin knew about Japan
And they're laughing as they use us all to build they’re Babylon
Eerie theory, fact or theory
I see the game they're playing way downtown, open ground
Feeling like it's going to bring you down
Eerie theory, fact or theory
I see the game they're playing way downtown, open ground
Feeling like it's going to bring you down
They use us, they use us all
Laughing as we fall
Laughing as we fall
Laughing as we fall
Laughing as
Killing our heroes
My home town's breaking down
But I'm holding out
All that's certain - I am still alive
My home town's breaking down
But I'm holding out
All that's certain - I am still alive
My home town's breaking down
But I'm holding out
All that's certain - I am still alive
People!
Stand out!
Stand out!
Alright!
Eeyay!
What's left when we look around?
What’s left when we’re looking,
the pot and the cook, the people, the violence, the more that you look around
(Do not follow if you can, When they lead us to violence)
What's left when we look around?
I stood back and observed the crowd
I saw voodoo and violence down to a science
Gurus and mind control
What's left when we look around?
I stood back and observed the crowd
I saw voodoo and violence down to a science
Gurus and mind control
My home town's breaking down
But I'm holding out
All that's certain - I am still alive
My home town's breaking down
But I'm holding out
All that's certain - I am still alive
(Babylon,
the movies on,
oh what a con,
King Solomon,
And Babylon is here again,
the movies on,
this neocon tapestry,
The sun and moon,
A pentagram monastery)
At the end of the day I know,
That we work all our lives to pay for a cage they own
It ain't no coincidence that the whole world is caught in an endless debt
At the end of the day I know
That we work all our lives to pay for a cage they own
The violence,
Illusion they're using to rule us, building their Babylon
Through my heart
Through my heart
Through my heart
As I watched those buildings fall
Saw the writing on the wall
In the underground the prophets spoke of triggers for a war
They’d been leaking out a plan
A new world order, understand?
And I stood there feeling like someone had planned it years before
Years before
Years before
Eerie theory, fact or theory
I see the game they're playing way down town, open ground
Feeling like it's going to bring you down
Eerie theory, fact or theory
I see the game they're playing way down town, open ground
Feeling like it's going to bring us down
Through my heart
Through my heart
Through my heart
Through my heart
Lusitania had to go
Stage was set to start the show
And I heard the sound of Alice chasing rabbits down a hole
Gulf of Tonkin, Vietnam
Yes Franklin knew about Japan
And they're laughing as they use us all to build they’re Babylon
Eerie theory, fact or theory
I see the game they're playing way downtown, open ground
Feeling like it's going to bring you down
Eerie theory, fact or theory
I see the game they're playing way downtown, open ground
Feeling like it's going to bring you down
They use us, they use us all
Laughing as we fall
Laughing as we fall
Laughing as we fall
Laughing as
Killing our heroes
My home town's breaking down
But I'm holding out
All that's certain - I am still alive
My home town's breaking down
But I'm holding out
All that's certain - I am still alive
My home town's breaking down
But I'm holding out
All that's certain - I am still alive
People!
Stand out!
Stand out!
Alright!
Eeyay!
What's left when we look around?
What’s left when we’re looking,
the pot and the cook, the people, the violence, the more that you look around
(Do not follow if you can, When they lead us to violence)
What's left when we look around?
I stood back and observed the crowd
I saw voodoo and violence down to a science
Gurus and mind control
What's left when we look around?
I stood back and observed the crowd
I saw voodoo and violence down to a science
Gurus and mind control
My home town's breaking down
But I'm holding out
All that's certain - I am still alive
My home town's breaking down
But I'm holding out
All that's certain - I am still alive
(Babylon,
the movies on,
oh what a con,
King Solomon,
And Babylon is here again,
the movies on,
this neocon tapestry,
The sun and moon,
A pentagram monastery)
At the end of the day I know,
That we work all our lives to pay for a cage they own
It ain't no coincidence that the whole world is caught in an endless debt
At the end of the day I know
That we work all our lives to pay for a cage they own
The violence,
Illusion they're using to rule us, building their Babylon
Lyrics submitted by godscoward, edited by nyebear, SteeleDream
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