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.
Bronze by gold heard the hoofirons
Steelyringing imperthnthn thnthnthn
Chips, picking chips off rocky thumbnail, chips
Horrid, and gold flushed more
A husky fifenote blew, blew
Blue bloom is on the gold pinnacled hair
A jumping rose on satiny breasts of satin
Rose of Castille
Trilling, trilling, I Dolores
Peep, who's in the, peepofgold?
Tink cried to bronze in pity
And a call, pure, long and throbbing
Longindying call
Decoy, soft word, but look, the bright stars fade
O rose, notes chirruping
Answer, Castille, the morn is breaking
Jingle jingle jaunted jingling
Coin rang, clock clacked
Avowal, Sonnez, I could rebound of garter, not leave thee
Sweetheart, goodbye
Avowal, warm
When love absorbs
War, war, the tympanum
A sail, a veil awave upon the waves
Horn, Hawhorn
When first he saw, alas
Full tup, full throb
Warbling, ah, lure, alluring
Martha, come
Clapclop, clipclap, clappyclap
Goodgod henev erheard inall
A moonlight nightcall, far, far
I feel so sad, P.S., so lonely blooming
Listen
The spiked and winding cold seahorn
Have you the?
Each, and for other, plash and silent roar
Pearls, when she, Liszt's rhapsodies, hiss
Steelyringing imperthnthn thnthnthn
Chips, picking chips off rocky thumbnail, chips
Horrid, and gold flushed more
A husky fifenote blew, blew
Blue bloom is on the gold pinnacled hair
A jumping rose on satiny breasts of satin
Rose of Castille
Trilling, trilling, I Dolores
Peep, who's in the, peepofgold?
Tink cried to bronze in pity
And a call, pure, long and throbbing
Longindying call
Decoy, soft word, but look, the bright stars fade
O rose, notes chirruping
Answer, Castille, the morn is breaking
Jingle jingle jaunted jingling
Coin rang, clock clacked
Avowal, Sonnez, I could rebound of garter, not leave thee
Sweetheart, goodbye
Avowal, warm
When love absorbs
War, war, the tympanum
A sail, a veil awave upon the waves
Horn, Hawhorn
When first he saw, alas
Full tup, full throb
Warbling, ah, lure, alluring
Martha, come
Clapclop, clipclap, clappyclap
Goodgod henev erheard inall
A moonlight nightcall, far, far
I feel so sad, P.S., so lonely blooming
Listen
The spiked and winding cold seahorn
Have you the?
Each, and for other, plash and silent roar
Pearls, when she, Liszt's rhapsodies, hiss
Lyrics submitted by Downtownla12, edited by Kailek
Air War Lyrics as written by Ethan Kath Alice Glass
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In the Sirens episode of James Joyce's "Ulysses," Leopold Bloom gets morose and drunk listening to the lyrics of a song about a cheating wife, while he imagines his own wife is getting seduced by a lover.
Except the song is not about a cheating wife, but a sleepwalking wife, mistaken for a cheat.
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