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.
Full of the thirst of the ugly energy of cowardice
Hopeful and the hopeless hope down in the laughing stock
The hunger of loneliness has fed better men than me
We're going to make a difference to everything
That moves has gone all wrong lately
I am thirsty European
I sit at bay in silence
Gathering their gathering
Down in the laughing stock
This could be the wandering to stop the wandering
We're going to make a difference to everything
That moves has gone all wrong lately
Degenerate monsters were always going to trash the slander
Bang the stones in praise of the popular schools
Who can't remember their names
They got lost in the lies
Degenerate monsters were always going to trash the slander
Bang the stones in praise of the popular schools
Who can't remember their names
They got lost in the lies
They won't just die for anyone forever
Couldn't it be right to always be right
Here and by besides
Thirsty European...
Pass it 'round
Throw up your money
For the angel clipper
With the brainwash cheeks
That lost their rosy
These past weeks
Living through hell...
Carry me to Christmas
With bells on my toes
Through Dublin streets
On my musical feet
Got no regrets
Got no thanks to give
But mother I've been living through hell again
Hopeful and the hopeless hope down in the laughing stock
The hunger of loneliness has fed better men than me
We're going to make a difference to everything
That moves has gone all wrong lately
I am thirsty European
I sit at bay in silence
Gathering their gathering
Down in the laughing stock
This could be the wandering to stop the wandering
We're going to make a difference to everything
That moves has gone all wrong lately
Degenerate monsters were always going to trash the slander
Bang the stones in praise of the popular schools
Who can't remember their names
They got lost in the lies
Degenerate monsters were always going to trash the slander
Bang the stones in praise of the popular schools
Who can't remember their names
They got lost in the lies
They won't just die for anyone forever
Couldn't it be right to always be right
Here and by besides
Thirsty European...
Pass it 'round
Throw up your money
For the angel clipper
With the brainwash cheeks
That lost their rosy
These past weeks
Living through hell...
Carry me to Christmas
With bells on my toes
Through Dublin streets
On my musical feet
Got no regrets
Got no thanks to give
But mother I've been living through hell again
Lyrics submitted by iceblink-luck
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