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.
You threw me away
Just like all the others
It's been seven days and not a single word
You threw me away
(After you it's all the same, all the same)
Just like all the others
(After you it's all the same, all the same)
It's been seven days
(After you it's all the same, all the same)
And not a single word
(After you it's all the same, all the same)
Make everything happen exactly like I know
Just like the ones before, just like the ones before
I hope you know what you are doing to yourself, to yourself
I hope you know what you are doing
After you it's all the same, all the same
After you it's all the same, all the same
After you it's all the same, all the same
After you it's all the same, all the same
(I'll take comfort, you'll take security)
(I'll take comfort, you'll take security)
You threw me away just like all the others
It's been seven days and not a single word
Who chooses to keep all these bohemian thoughts alive
It's just the same, the same as yesterday
Don't wake me up if you have nothing to say
Who chooses to keep all these bohemian thoughts alive
Make everything happen exactly like I know
Just like the ones before
Just like the ones before
I hope you know what you are doing to yourself, to yourself
I hope you know what you are doing
What are you but a yellow-purple zebra
Contacts so I can see clearer
Write these words down soon I'm a magnet
Calls stretch it and retract it
Please ask me again cause I didn't hear it
You just settled in? cause you can't be here yet
All partied out on the strangest families
Tell you that cause in the end though we're only neighbors
Excuse me pardon the eruption
I walk up, press all the buttons
I'll talk out, stress all the functions
I always gotta be starting something
So powder to the people
Cause the fight for rights is equal
Powder to the people
Cause the fight for rights is equal
After you it's all the same, all the same
After you it's all the same, all the same
After you it's all the same, all the same
After you it's all the same, all the same
After you it's all the same, all the same
After you it's all the same, all the same
You threw me away just like all the others
It's been seven days and not a single word
Who chooses to keep all these bohemian thoughts alive
It's just the same, the same as yesterday
Don't wake me up if you have nothing to say
Who chooses to keep all these bohemian thoughts alive
(Contacting who we are)
(Driving on the space boat)
(Clear prints on my wounds)
(So much to be home)
(Greatest country, where you been?)
(Diplomat oppligen)
(See it, believe it)
(Celebrity illusion)
Just like all the others
It's been seven days and not a single word
You threw me away
(After you it's all the same, all the same)
Just like all the others
(After you it's all the same, all the same)
It's been seven days
(After you it's all the same, all the same)
And not a single word
(After you it's all the same, all the same)
Make everything happen exactly like I know
Just like the ones before, just like the ones before
I hope you know what you are doing to yourself, to yourself
I hope you know what you are doing
After you it's all the same, all the same
After you it's all the same, all the same
After you it's all the same, all the same
After you it's all the same, all the same
(I'll take comfort, you'll take security)
(I'll take comfort, you'll take security)
You threw me away just like all the others
It's been seven days and not a single word
Who chooses to keep all these bohemian thoughts alive
It's just the same, the same as yesterday
Don't wake me up if you have nothing to say
Who chooses to keep all these bohemian thoughts alive
Make everything happen exactly like I know
Just like the ones before
Just like the ones before
I hope you know what you are doing to yourself, to yourself
I hope you know what you are doing
What are you but a yellow-purple zebra
Contacts so I can see clearer
Write these words down soon I'm a magnet
Calls stretch it and retract it
Please ask me again cause I didn't hear it
You just settled in? cause you can't be here yet
All partied out on the strangest families
Tell you that cause in the end though we're only neighbors
Excuse me pardon the eruption
I walk up, press all the buttons
I'll talk out, stress all the functions
I always gotta be starting something
So powder to the people
Cause the fight for rights is equal
Powder to the people
Cause the fight for rights is equal
After you it's all the same, all the same
After you it's all the same, all the same
After you it's all the same, all the same
After you it's all the same, all the same
After you it's all the same, all the same
After you it's all the same, all the same
You threw me away just like all the others
It's been seven days and not a single word
Who chooses to keep all these bohemian thoughts alive
It's just the same, the same as yesterday
Don't wake me up if you have nothing to say
Who chooses to keep all these bohemian thoughts alive
(Contacting who we are)
(Driving on the space boat)
(Clear prints on my wounds)
(So much to be home)
(Greatest country, where you been?)
(Diplomat oppligen)
(See it, believe it)
(Celebrity illusion)
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