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.
Come on down, the furthest reaches of your nowhere town
They suck you in, the black hole kids wont let you free again
Don't you try to shoot up the sky
Tonight well stay alive
When it's gone, you sit and stare
Until the golden dawn
Cant you see his arms are a hell and you wont ever leave?
They suck you in, the black hole kids wont let you free again
Don't you try to shoot up the sky
Tonight well stay alive
When it's gone, you sit and stare
Until the golden dawn
Cant you see his arms are a hell and you wont ever leave?
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The Black Hole Kids I think is a reference to the Adolescents song. The definition I saw said that the black hole is a one bedroom apartment in California where homeless kids into punk music live.
The Vivian Girls song Death also refers to staying alive and came out the previous year.
I have wondered if the Golden Dawn line is a reference to the occult group at the beginning of the last century that had as members Aleister Crowley and W.B. Yeats.
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