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.
The telegraph gave us hope
Before was the silence and the panic it brought
The sky was the blankest sheet
We drew lines upon it
So our thoughts could meet
Through cables black and cold
We carry our intentions to bridge
And bring home
Would it all be so clear
If the lines were erased
And the silence restored?
Boys of today write lines on walls
In the streets at night
In suburbs of cities with no name
Is this destruction or just quiet protest
Against loneliness
The cargo lies in our laps
They're weight is so heavy
And this is all we know
Our message will need a ship
To travel across oceans
That can't otherwise be crossed
It undulates on the waves
And cautions the water so we can be safe
It undulates on the waves
Then cautions the water so we can be safe
Before was the silence and the panic it brought
The sky was the blankest sheet
We drew lines upon it
So our thoughts could meet
Through cables black and cold
We carry our intentions to bridge
And bring home
Would it all be so clear
If the lines were erased
And the silence restored?
Boys of today write lines on walls
In the streets at night
In suburbs of cities with no name
Is this destruction or just quiet protest
Against loneliness
The cargo lies in our laps
They're weight is so heavy
And this is all we know
Our message will need a ship
To travel across oceans
That can't otherwise be crossed
It undulates on the waves
And cautions the water so we can be safe
It undulates on the waves
Then cautions the water so we can be safe
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Think back on how life was before the first Trans-Atlantic telegraph cable connected the UK and the US in 1858. Messages & news took days and weeks to arrive.
We were islands of humanity connected only by oceangoing vessels of men. "The telegraph gave us hope....."
"Boys of today write lines...." Graffiti and the general decline in the quality of a society...arguably more degraded than the rather educated and morally minded populace of the mid 1800s. This despite being connected with instantaneous mass communication between continents.
"The cargo lies in our laps..." "Our MESSAGE will need a ship...." They have an important message to communicate but it's lost in the waves of meaningless communication of today's society (gossip, lame news etc). They need a SHIP damn it! To cross those "oceans" that can't otherwise be crossed...get their message communicated and HEARD through the waves. Their commentary on the amount of BS that is out there running around the internet and how hard it is to be heard and understood.
Think of how the telegraph and the technological advancements following it gave us an instantaneous news cycle of thing that we really don't care about and have no control over.
"We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.... We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad flapping American ear will be that Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough." - Thoreau, Walden
This is a fascinating and brilliant song.