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.
Eve's stem defiled
Life led astray
The paradise of the damned has been misled
Eve's stem defiled
Life led astray
Her Eden desecrated has been misled
Squirming like a beast
Man is the birthplace of disease
A parturient need for hemoglobin
One with the craving
Intrauterine
Man is the birthplace of disease
One with the killing
The blood released
Blessed with decay and left to rot
Like a cancer devours bowels and gut
Infertile whores drowned in filth
Left with nothing to adore
A parturient need for seminal release
One with the craving
Intrauterine
Man is the birthplace of disease
One with the killing
The blood released
A slam of the fist brought eden to her knees
One with the killing
Childhood has ceased
Fetal dead matter
Expulsed left to rot
Inanimate cadaver has been reanimated to a demigod
Raping the dead without emotion
Raping the dead casket implosion
Raping the dead without restraint
Raping the dead necrotic epitaph
Fetal dead matter
Repulsed and left to rot
Inanimate splatter
Revided to the plot
Raping the dead without emotion
Raping the dead casket implosion
Raping the dead without restraint
Raping the dead necrotic epitaph
All acknowledge the graveyard sloth
When your bones are bleached it's time to meet my rod
Delicately misplaced into grandma's tomb
Post-mortal pleasures she lustfully endures
I'm your maker
The body bag sprayer
When rigor mortis is reached
Testosterone is at its top
I'm a necrotic succubi
The plague of men
When all of you are dead
You shall be my lustful grub
The gangrenous epitaph
Life led astray
The paradise of the damned has been misled
Eve's stem defiled
Life led astray
Her Eden desecrated has been misled
Squirming like a beast
Man is the birthplace of disease
A parturient need for hemoglobin
One with the craving
Intrauterine
Man is the birthplace of disease
One with the killing
The blood released
Blessed with decay and left to rot
Like a cancer devours bowels and gut
Infertile whores drowned in filth
Left with nothing to adore
A parturient need for seminal release
One with the craving
Intrauterine
Man is the birthplace of disease
One with the killing
The blood released
A slam of the fist brought eden to her knees
One with the killing
Childhood has ceased
Fetal dead matter
Expulsed left to rot
Inanimate cadaver has been reanimated to a demigod
Raping the dead without emotion
Raping the dead casket implosion
Raping the dead without restraint
Raping the dead necrotic epitaph
Fetal dead matter
Repulsed and left to rot
Inanimate splatter
Revided to the plot
Raping the dead without emotion
Raping the dead casket implosion
Raping the dead without restraint
Raping the dead necrotic epitaph
All acknowledge the graveyard sloth
When your bones are bleached it's time to meet my rod
Delicately misplaced into grandma's tomb
Post-mortal pleasures she lustfully endures
I'm your maker
The body bag sprayer
When rigor mortis is reached
Testosterone is at its top
I'm a necrotic succubi
The plague of men
When all of you are dead
You shall be my lustful grub
The gangrenous epitaph
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