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.
They're all gone, she'll rot
Wishing as she swam
that her own moon would be her only friend
But he too is swimming away
an inch more every year and...
Almost forgot, about the other spheres here
It took a few hundred light years
for the bad air to clear
up out of here
Soon now her star will swell
Bloat up, turn bright red
At least that's what we said,
might happen to it
They're all gone, she'll begin
as just elements again
Tumbling in the solar winds
In and out they'll spin
in a different direction
Somewhere else a similar situation
Some random formation,
occuring in the same equation
Building new destruction
"They're all gone", she said
with soar achy fault lines
Still following guidelines
A stones approach
Pushed to swirl in some other new stars light
Soon now too that star will swell,
releasing brand new moons,
Dark matter and toxic fumes
It's just a dusty interstellar saloon
Soon now too that star will swell,
spread out and then shrink up
Some white dwarf will hold your cup half full
Because elsewhere new volcanos erupt
They're all gone, but she'll still be seen
somewhere else melting
Some other eyes absorbing
A new light inside of some new star-ling
Soon now too that light will die,
Soon now too that light will die
but its energy never does
It burns in some other new blood (x3)
Wishing as she swam
that her own moon would be her only friend
But he too is swimming away
an inch more every year and...
Almost forgot, about the other spheres here
It took a few hundred light years
for the bad air to clear
up out of here
Soon now her star will swell
Bloat up, turn bright red
At least that's what we said,
might happen to it
They're all gone, she'll begin
as just elements again
Tumbling in the solar winds
In and out they'll spin
in a different direction
Somewhere else a similar situation
Some random formation,
occuring in the same equation
Building new destruction
"They're all gone", she said
with soar achy fault lines
Still following guidelines
A stones approach
Pushed to swirl in some other new stars light
Soon now too that star will swell,
releasing brand new moons,
Dark matter and toxic fumes
It's just a dusty interstellar saloon
Soon now too that star will swell,
spread out and then shrink up
Some white dwarf will hold your cup half full
Because elsewhere new volcanos erupt
They're all gone, but she'll still be seen
somewhere else melting
Some other eyes absorbing
A new light inside of some new star-ling
Soon now too that light will die,
Soon now too that light will die
but its energy never does
It burns in some other new blood (x3)
Lyrics submitted by CoconutSkins
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But I also have this annoying tendency to relate every song to myself, lol, so in another sense this is just about a person rediscovering herself. Just like how experiences and phases of life, like phases of the moon, turn and combine and outlast any one person. And it's all the same beginning, birth, and outcome, death. It's like we're all made up of the same stuff as Earth.