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.
Driving up the coast to find
A version of the truth
Left the backdoor swinging like
A dirty little sleuth
The truth is I have never
Felt half this alive
Now it’s time to dance upon
The grave called 45
Jacked up on some Kerouac
And surely bullet proof
The girl who taught me what to
Do was missing her front tooth
Gentle as a storm inside your mental health
I want to find the answer but
I just can’t find myself
I said so long to the way I played
The way I played inside of yesterday
Hey, let’s run around
The great escape from out of my hometown
Later I would look for love
Inside a woman’s dorm
A couch to keep me humble and
Her breath to keep me warm
Ophelia was the girl that I was feeling for
Come to realize it was me who was the whore
A captain lost himself inside a
40 year old skull
The drink of choice was knowledge
And we always wanted more
Drunken sailors seeking their Geronimo
Instead they found the things that they
Really didn’t want to know
I said so long to the way I played
The way I played inside of yesterday
Hey, let’s run around
The great escape from out of my hometown
Country roads would never let me stay
The way I played inside of yesterday
A devil’s growl and cat’s meow
Were blended into one
Termites called suburbanites were eating
All the fun
A juggernaut of comedy and blasphemy
I want to stop the madness but
I think it has to be
I said so long to the way I played
The way I played inside of yesterday
Hey, let’s run around
The great escape from out of my hometown
Country roads would never let me stay
The way I played inside of yesterday
Hey, let’s run around
The great escape from out of my hometown
A version of the truth
Left the backdoor swinging like
A dirty little sleuth
The truth is I have never
Felt half this alive
Now it’s time to dance upon
The grave called 45
Jacked up on some Kerouac
And surely bullet proof
The girl who taught me what to
Do was missing her front tooth
Gentle as a storm inside your mental health
I want to find the answer but
I just can’t find myself
I said so long to the way I played
The way I played inside of yesterday
Hey, let’s run around
The great escape from out of my hometown
Later I would look for love
Inside a woman’s dorm
A couch to keep me humble and
Her breath to keep me warm
Ophelia was the girl that I was feeling for
Come to realize it was me who was the whore
A captain lost himself inside a
40 year old skull
The drink of choice was knowledge
And we always wanted more
Drunken sailors seeking their Geronimo
Instead they found the things that they
Really didn’t want to know
I said so long to the way I played
The way I played inside of yesterday
Hey, let’s run around
The great escape from out of my hometown
Country roads would never let me stay
The way I played inside of yesterday
A devil’s growl and cat’s meow
Were blended into one
Termites called suburbanites were eating
All the fun
A juggernaut of comedy and blasphemy
I want to stop the madness but
I think it has to be
I said so long to the way I played
The way I played inside of yesterday
Hey, let’s run around
The great escape from out of my hometown
Country roads would never let me stay
The way I played inside of yesterday
Hey, let’s run around
The great escape from out of my hometown
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