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.
Mention a name, we know (we know)
Appear tame, it shows (it shows)
Please don't feign, the ropes (the ropes)
Always the same, I know (I know)
(I'm cheerleading myself, I shouldn't really matter)
(I'm cheerleading myself, I shouldn't really matter)
(I'm cheerleading myself, I shouldn't really matter)
Go on, let it go, it doesn't mean a thing
(I'm cheerleading myself, I shouldn't really matter)
Chance is on nothing changing
There's no time, to go (to go)
Through the designs, we know (we know)
Never mind, although (although)
Maybe this time, we'll grow (we'll grow)
(I'm cheerleading myself, I shouldn't really matter)
(I'm cheerleading myself, I shouldn't really matter)
(I'm cheerleading myself, I shouldn't really matter)
Go on, let it go, it doesn't mean a thing
(I'm cheerleading myself, I shouldn't really matter)
Chance is on nothing changing
(I'm cheerleading myself, I shouldn't really matter)
Go on, let it go, it doesn't mean a thing
(I'm cheerleading myself, I shouldn't really matter)
Chance is on nothing changing
Appear tame, it shows (it shows)
Please don't feign, the ropes (the ropes)
Always the same, I know (I know)
(I'm cheerleading myself, I shouldn't really matter)
(I'm cheerleading myself, I shouldn't really matter)
(I'm cheerleading myself, I shouldn't really matter)
Go on, let it go, it doesn't mean a thing
(I'm cheerleading myself, I shouldn't really matter)
Chance is on nothing changing
There's no time, to go (to go)
Through the designs, we know (we know)
Never mind, although (although)
Maybe this time, we'll grow (we'll grow)
(I'm cheerleading myself, I shouldn't really matter)
(I'm cheerleading myself, I shouldn't really matter)
(I'm cheerleading myself, I shouldn't really matter)
Go on, let it go, it doesn't mean a thing
(I'm cheerleading myself, I shouldn't really matter)
Chance is on nothing changing
(I'm cheerleading myself, I shouldn't really matter)
Go on, let it go, it doesn't mean a thing
(I'm cheerleading myself, I shouldn't really matter)
Chance is on nothing changing
Lyrics submitted by rainandrev, edited by TheGoodBad, museum, v8pluver, goddamnboxes
Cheerleader Lyrics as written by Edward Droste Christopher Bear
Lyrics © SC PUBLISHING DBA SECRETLY CANADIAN PUB., Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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I know the correct lyrics are up now, but I'm curious if anyone besides me heard it this way:
I should've known myself/I should've made it better.
That's what I had been hearing. :/
Me too.
I think you're hearing what you want to hear in the song. I do that a lot. I listen to a song for a while then look up lyrics to see if I was right and I usually learn a lot about myself in turn. Music has a way of relating to us even when the lyrics seem unlikely to.
ithinkiam, i know exactly what you mean. another thing i do, besides sometimes hearing lyrics the way i want to, is hear a certain tone or the way they are singing something, which often affects my interpretation of how something is meant. also, sometimes what a song means to me can remain pretty much the same for an extended period of time, but, more often than not, it changes, even if only partially or subtly, quite frequently (just as our favorite songs on an album change, as we relate to different ones in different ways at different times). part of what made me think about this is the fact that i'm in the midst of reading my third world religions text book, and with each one i end up viewing hinduism/buddhism so much differently, as if it's new to me again. i always think it's such a mind fuck... but then i thought about it differently, and it occurred to me that maybe it's not that the content is all that different from book to book, but that i am different during each period of time, and thus so is the way i process the reading material. somehow... this relates to the music. and, one additional thing-- something i've just recently been giving more thought to is the way that i might have a certain interpretation and then happen to see other interpretations on it, and it makes me see how it could be perceived in these ways that didn't even occur to me, and how, regardless of what the writer was expressing, i formed these notions in my mind all on my own, and now this meaning is all my own. it does make me learn things about myself, and i think it's quite fascinating really. and... it's after 5:30am and i'm still up, utterly delirious, rather nonsensical, and annoyingly tangential. i apologize.