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.
All I need is some sunshine
All I need
All I need is some sunshine
All I need
The siren called beyond the treeline
With another one for the caves
And in the tarn beyond those birches
Is a spirit that I crave
And from the island people watched you
You set that viking ship ablaze
We reached the moon falls icy cauldron
And found the spirit that I crave
All I need is some sunshine
All I need
All I need is some sunshine
All I need
You've fallen barefoot past the treeline
Peeping boned-eyed, birches sway
And a thousand whitefish floating belly up
In the spirit that I crave
And we threw ourselves right into it
Where lay the bodies had been claimed
We dove a third, a fourth, a fifth
Banned to the spirit that I crave
All I need is some sunshine
All I need
All I need is some sunshine
All I need
I found empathy from madness
Deliverance from malaise
My heart is filled with gladness
And you're the only spirit that I crave
All I need is some sunshine
All I need
All I need is some sunshine
All I need
Black Water (pull me down)
Black Water (pull me down)
Black Water (pull me down)
Black Water (pull me down)
Black Water (pull me down)
Black Water (pull me down)
Black Water (pull me down)
Black Water (pull me down)
Black Water (pull me down)
Black Water (pull me down)
Black Water (pull me down)
Black Water (pull me down)
Black Water (pull me down)
Black Water (pull me down)
Black Water (pull me down)
Black Water (pull me down)
Black Water (pull me down)
Black Water (pull me down)
All I need
All I need is some sunshine
All I need
The siren called beyond the treeline
With another one for the caves
And in the tarn beyond those birches
Is a spirit that I crave
And from the island people watched you
You set that viking ship ablaze
We reached the moon falls icy cauldron
And found the spirit that I crave
All I need is some sunshine
All I need
All I need is some sunshine
All I need
You've fallen barefoot past the treeline
Peeping boned-eyed, birches sway
And a thousand whitefish floating belly up
In the spirit that I crave
And we threw ourselves right into it
Where lay the bodies had been claimed
We dove a third, a fourth, a fifth
Banned to the spirit that I crave
All I need is some sunshine
All I need
All I need is some sunshine
All I need
I found empathy from madness
Deliverance from malaise
My heart is filled with gladness
And you're the only spirit that I crave
All I need is some sunshine
All I need
All I need is some sunshine
All I need
Black Water (pull me down)
Black Water (pull me down)
Black Water (pull me down)
Black Water (pull me down)
Black Water (pull me down)
Black Water (pull me down)
Black Water (pull me down)
Black Water (pull me down)
Black Water (pull me down)
Black Water (pull me down)
Black Water (pull me down)
Black Water (pull me down)
Black Water (pull me down)
Black Water (pull me down)
Black Water (pull me down)
Black Water (pull me down)
Black Water (pull me down)
Black Water (pull me down)
Lyrics submitted by ctspectator, edited by vistarmone, notzachwalker, phaedra1
Black Water Lyrics as written by Taylor Kirk
Lyrics © ARTS & CRAFTS MUSIC INC
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@lucyfur Great comment. :)