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.
Yeah
I'm nothing and all things
I drift between dimensions
I'm lifeless, immortal
Collapsed duality
My language is wordless
A silent scream to your ears
Enigma in plain sight
Time/space anomaly
Quantumleaper
Found unfound
Voice of reason
Lost its tongue
If you rise I'll fall, unknown where once I was known
Choose where I can't go and I am there
If you rise I'll fall, unknown where once I was known
Even when I'm gone, you know I'm here
I'm right here and nowhere
Upon me rests creation
I am wave and lepton
The eerie paradox
Wrong focus, wrong methods
This way you'll never get me
Exclude flesh, include mind
And drift along with me
Quantumleaper
Found unfound
Voice of reason
Lost its tongue
If you rise I'll fall, unknown where once I was known
Choose where I can't go and I am there
If you rise I'll fall, unknown where once I was known
Even when I'm gone, you know I'm here
You observe me in a grain of sand
Infinity beheld
Universe in the palm of your hand
Infinity unveiled
View this progress as an omen
When mind allows, feel it pull you further down
Quantumleaper
Found unfound
Voice of reason
Lost its tongue
If you rise I'll fall, unknown where once I was known
Choose where I can't go and I am there
If you rise I'll fall, unknown where once I was known
Even when I'm gone, you know I'm here
I'm nothing and all things
I drift between dimensions
I'm lifeless, immortal
Collapsed duality
My language is wordless
A silent scream to your ears
Enigma in plain sight
Time/space anomaly
Quantumleaper
Found unfound
Voice of reason
Lost its tongue
If you rise I'll fall, unknown where once I was known
Choose where I can't go and I am there
If you rise I'll fall, unknown where once I was known
Even when I'm gone, you know I'm here
I'm right here and nowhere
Upon me rests creation
I am wave and lepton
The eerie paradox
Wrong focus, wrong methods
This way you'll never get me
Exclude flesh, include mind
And drift along with me
Quantumleaper
Found unfound
Voice of reason
Lost its tongue
If you rise I'll fall, unknown where once I was known
Choose where I can't go and I am there
If you rise I'll fall, unknown where once I was known
Even when I'm gone, you know I'm here
You observe me in a grain of sand
Infinity beheld
Universe in the palm of your hand
Infinity unveiled
View this progress as an omen
When mind allows, feel it pull you further down
Quantumleaper
Found unfound
Voice of reason
Lost its tongue
If you rise I'll fall, unknown where once I was known
Choose where I can't go and I am there
If you rise I'll fall, unknown where once I was known
Even when I'm gone, you know I'm here
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There is probably more, but thats the basics of it I think.
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Exactly, thoughts of an angry electron lol
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