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.
When I fall, I'll aim my feet at you
Aim my knees, floating through breeze
Too dumb to follow a moving target
Still, damn my needs, too meek to follow them
Have already touched it
It builds the bone
Although I'll never need it
It fills in the hole I know
Darkness falls and I'm cruising creek again
With a hollow head, a hollow head to boot
A pre-Madonna, a pre-Madon' moment
Too shy to swallow, yet young enough to get
All will come to it
They say it builds the bone
If I ever stop needing it
May I be thrown into the throes of toil
Let my fall, let my fall on you
Tame my feet, I'll rope my knees round you
It ain't my fault, no, it ain't my fault, oh, no
You broke the whole, you broke the whole, oh, you
All is nothing
It creates a sore
It takes my all to love it
And it relates to the end as we know
Aim my knees, floating through breeze
Too dumb to follow a moving target
Still, damn my needs, too meek to follow them
Have already touched it
It builds the bone
Although I'll never need it
It fills in the hole I know
Darkness falls and I'm cruising creek again
With a hollow head, a hollow head to boot
A pre-Madonna, a pre-Madon' moment
Too shy to swallow, yet young enough to get
All will come to it
They say it builds the bone
If I ever stop needing it
May I be thrown into the throes of toil
Let my fall, let my fall on you
Tame my feet, I'll rope my knees round you
It ain't my fault, no, it ain't my fault, oh, no
You broke the whole, you broke the whole, oh, you
All is nothing
It creates a sore
It takes my all to love it
And it relates to the end as we know
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