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.
We face our extinction day after day
Oblivious to what we'll become
Persist to exist in our pathetic ways
Nothing to show when it's done
We take what they give
Complacency the masses content to consume
The idiots outbreeding twenty to one
Ensuring our future is doomed
We had it all and we pissed it away
Ignoring the signs in our face
Fucking and fighting and drinking all day
Intelligence left in disgrace
Deadlock , idiocracy, deadlock
Deadlock, hypocrisy, deadlock
Standing in line for the latest release
An upgrade to shit we don't need
A fistful of cash and a smile on your face
A wallet just dying to bleed
Take all your money and throw it away
Flush all your work down the drain
Lambs to the slaughter with nothing to say
You see now your life was in vain
Deadlock, idiocracy, deadlock
Deadlock, hypocrisy, deadlock
The hits start coming and they don't stop coming
One slip further and you won't stop running
Best get comfy in the hole we're digging
The graveyard's running out of room
(x2)
We face our extinction day after day
The masses content to consume
The fat on the land is all wasting away
The future of life here is doomed
We had it all and we pissed it away
Ignored all the signs in our face
Lambs to the slaughter with nothing to say
Condemning the fate of our race
Deadlock, idiocracy, deadlock
Deadlock, hypocrisy, deadlock
(x2)
Oblivious to what we'll become
Persist to exist in our pathetic ways
Nothing to show when it's done
We take what they give
Complacency the masses content to consume
The idiots outbreeding twenty to one
Ensuring our future is doomed
We had it all and we pissed it away
Ignoring the signs in our face
Fucking and fighting and drinking all day
Intelligence left in disgrace
Deadlock , idiocracy, deadlock
Deadlock, hypocrisy, deadlock
Standing in line for the latest release
An upgrade to shit we don't need
A fistful of cash and a smile on your face
A wallet just dying to bleed
Take all your money and throw it away
Flush all your work down the drain
Lambs to the slaughter with nothing to say
You see now your life was in vain
Deadlock, idiocracy, deadlock
Deadlock, hypocrisy, deadlock
The hits start coming and they don't stop coming
One slip further and you won't stop running
Best get comfy in the hole we're digging
The graveyard's running out of room
(x2)
We face our extinction day after day
The masses content to consume
The fat on the land is all wasting away
The future of life here is doomed
We had it all and we pissed it away
Ignored all the signs in our face
Lambs to the slaughter with nothing to say
Condemning the fate of our race
Deadlock, idiocracy, deadlock
Deadlock, hypocrisy, deadlock
(x2)
Lyrics submitted by EpicNight13
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