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.
Kool A.D:
Innocent eyes like that of a turtle
Purple nurple, titty twister, wet willie
My fuzzy verbal math is silly but cute
A fat gerbil, eleven-foot-eight dot com
Hot mom, Dodge Caravan, monster truck wheels
Who cares man?
New chairman Mao
But dumb gun shy, dumb guy
Run blind towns with one eye
Buy any child, popstar malfunctions
All-black Maybachs turn to pumpkins in 20-12
Orwelly-well in a belly shirt
R. Kelly, Kirk hand me shreddy bananas
Damn, blood
Heems:
Damn blood
I'm laid back to the max like why gild a lily
Rock shows from Philly to the billy-billy
For silly kids who burn phillies
Swishers, dutchies, to Indian masters
Put the ghetto blaster on top of Mount Chaster
Vijay, hiya
DR, it's free jazzmataz
Cream on your ass like a minority dad
Minorities mad, who you foolin b?
White people's skin is their jewellery
Kool A.D.
Hah! Good Hi-mami!
Manouevering is nothing new to me
Manouevering's nothing new to me, Cuban b
Coke and a baloney
You people so Ponyboy
My chill man Randy
Scandalous savages more noble
Porno, global cornerstore
'Pedia light, mosquito bite
Peter springing in politics is no fun for young guns
Young ones want fun
Give it to em, take it from em, make em want it
Wake n' bake
One take Jake's takin bacon from em
Heems:
I'll take one of your chicks
Straight from under your armpit
The brown Brad Pitt, Mark Ruffalo
Something like the Duff Man, tough man
Duff your mans like W's man
Yoga fire, copyright infringement
Kids is getting it in
Babies having babies
Navy coloured aves
Maybe you could pay me
Cyber-bully lame bands
Til they murk themselves
Work themselves up over nothing
Bumpin something
Cooler than we're bumpin your tape-player
Play em great, stay away
Rare flare mayor, good luck
Hooligans packin toolies, acting unruly
Fiji Water, Greek disease, please
All I need is cess and a cool breeze
Maybe some palm trees
Leaves to eat
And a roof over my dome, a home
Kool A.D.:
Alone, Macaulay Culkin, stardogs
Don't even go there again, girlfriend
There's your man
Spray-tanning Dakota Fanning at the Getty Gas Station
Plenty cash-making
Chucky Cheese, mouse-trap, starpower
Nap 20 minutes like Da Vinci did
Lewinski lips on the frisbee
Quick, look, it's the Dixie Chicks
RIS-D, bricks, dizzy, get with me
If you want it
And if you don't want it, then don't!
Heems:
I won't!
Brother code, scope foes
Ace Ventura, seventh grade humor-tumor
Family Guy quoted for laughs, you payed out
See something, spray something
Get sprayed out
No way out
My senorita, que lo que?
Like no way Jose, dime lo hombre
Que fue?
This is your brain on drugs, fryin
The white man like Simba, Mufasa, lion
If I'm lying I'm dying
Trying, buying time
More the Rafiki type
Freaky-deaky type
Poo-poo pee-pee type,
Tonight get light
Get right, right in the head
Kool A.D.:
New Jamba Juice is my house
New my house is your house
My new mouth is your blouse
My GMail spoken-word poetry to a cloud
That Dick Cheney made with his brainpiece
Diplo's drunk ass approved it
We're bringing back all that smart shit
That's actually stupid
I'm actually pooping in my hand
And throwing it at Superman
Spiderman versus X-Men
Who's gonna win?
Tannins, Obama
Structural, still, what's it all mean?
Bear Vazquez, paws/pause
I wear Vazquez on my head sometimes
Don't ask me where
Ask me if you can buy some and how much it is
It's just to put me on a bucket list
If you don't like this song go suck a dick!
This is the best song ever!
Better than Juicy, better than Fur Elise!
Better than any song made by Jay-Z!
Better than Two Weeks by Grizzly Bear!
(That's a pretty good song, right?
You like that one?)
Uh, it's better than...
The intro song to Peewee Herman...
It's better than.... uh....
alright!
Innocent eyes like that of a turtle
Purple nurple, titty twister, wet willie
My fuzzy verbal math is silly but cute
A fat gerbil, eleven-foot-eight dot com
Hot mom, Dodge Caravan, monster truck wheels
Who cares man?
New chairman Mao
But dumb gun shy, dumb guy
Run blind towns with one eye
Buy any child, popstar malfunctions
All-black Maybachs turn to pumpkins in 20-12
Orwelly-well in a belly shirt
R. Kelly, Kirk hand me shreddy bananas
Damn, blood
Heems:
Damn blood
I'm laid back to the max like why gild a lily
Rock shows from Philly to the billy-billy
For silly kids who burn phillies
Swishers, dutchies, to Indian masters
Put the ghetto blaster on top of Mount Chaster
Vijay, hiya
DR, it's free jazzmataz
Cream on your ass like a minority dad
Minorities mad, who you foolin b?
White people's skin is their jewellery
Kool A.D.
Hah! Good Hi-mami!
Manouevering is nothing new to me
Manouevering's nothing new to me, Cuban b
Coke and a baloney
You people so Ponyboy
My chill man Randy
Scandalous savages more noble
Porno, global cornerstore
'Pedia light, mosquito bite
Peter springing in politics is no fun for young guns
Young ones want fun
Give it to em, take it from em, make em want it
Wake n' bake
One take Jake's takin bacon from em
Heems:
I'll take one of your chicks
Straight from under your armpit
The brown Brad Pitt, Mark Ruffalo
Something like the Duff Man, tough man
Duff your mans like W's man
Yoga fire, copyright infringement
Kids is getting it in
Babies having babies
Navy coloured aves
Maybe you could pay me
Cyber-bully lame bands
Til they murk themselves
Work themselves up over nothing
Bumpin something
Cooler than we're bumpin your tape-player
Play em great, stay away
Rare flare mayor, good luck
Hooligans packin toolies, acting unruly
Fiji Water, Greek disease, please
All I need is cess and a cool breeze
Maybe some palm trees
Leaves to eat
And a roof over my dome, a home
Kool A.D.:
Alone, Macaulay Culkin, stardogs
Don't even go there again, girlfriend
There's your man
Spray-tanning Dakota Fanning at the Getty Gas Station
Plenty cash-making
Chucky Cheese, mouse-trap, starpower
Nap 20 minutes like Da Vinci did
Lewinski lips on the frisbee
Quick, look, it's the Dixie Chicks
RIS-D, bricks, dizzy, get with me
If you want it
And if you don't want it, then don't!
Heems:
I won't!
Brother code, scope foes
Ace Ventura, seventh grade humor-tumor
Family Guy quoted for laughs, you payed out
See something, spray something
Get sprayed out
No way out
My senorita, que lo que?
Like no way Jose, dime lo hombre
Que fue?
This is your brain on drugs, fryin
The white man like Simba, Mufasa, lion
If I'm lying I'm dying
Trying, buying time
More the Rafiki type
Freaky-deaky type
Poo-poo pee-pee type,
Tonight get light
Get right, right in the head
Kool A.D.:
New Jamba Juice is my house
New my house is your house
My new mouth is your blouse
My GMail spoken-word poetry to a cloud
That Dick Cheney made with his brainpiece
Diplo's drunk ass approved it
We're bringing back all that smart shit
That's actually stupid
I'm actually pooping in my hand
And throwing it at Superman
Spiderman versus X-Men
Who's gonna win?
Tannins, Obama
Structural, still, what's it all mean?
Bear Vazquez, paws/pause
I wear Vazquez on my head sometimes
Don't ask me where
Ask me if you can buy some and how much it is
It's just to put me on a bucket list
If you don't like this song go suck a dick!
This is the best song ever!
Better than Juicy, better than Fur Elise!
Better than any song made by Jay-Z!
Better than Two Weeks by Grizzly Bear!
(That's a pretty good song, right?
You like that one?)
Uh, it's better than...
The intro song to Peewee Herman...
It's better than.... uh....
alright!
Lyrics submitted by PinkSalmon
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