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.
I stared you down so hard
I burnt your shadow to the wall.
And through the haze you served a slow pull from grace at a drunken pace.
I've nothing to sell you, nothing to trade,
What would you have me give? What would you let me take?
Let fall past your lips, a siren's kiss to temper the crash of dawn.
Sister sing along, "Twilight be sweet."
Come tomorrow of this place we cannot speak.
And come tomorrow these sins we share, we two shall keep
Oh twilight, twilight be sweet.
Twilight, twilight be sweet.
Twilight, twilight be sweet.
Pull the blinds, put my back to the door.
Say not a word, sister, split down on me.
Kill the lights, drag me to the floor.
Say not a word, sister, split down on me.
(x5)
I burnt your shadow to the wall.
And through the haze you served a slow pull from grace at a drunken pace.
I've nothing to sell you, nothing to trade,
What would you have me give? What would you let me take?
Let fall past your lips, a siren's kiss to temper the crash of dawn.
Sister sing along, "Twilight be sweet."
Come tomorrow of this place we cannot speak.
And come tomorrow these sins we share, we two shall keep
Oh twilight, twilight be sweet.
Twilight, twilight be sweet.
Twilight, twilight be sweet.
Pull the blinds, put my back to the door.
Say not a word, sister, split down on me.
Kill the lights, drag me to the floor.
Say not a word, sister, split down on me.
(x5)
Lyrics submitted by tricktricky
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