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.
I want to watch it all fall until it's dark,
You both look exactly the same at night
I'd arrange the bed like crosses, watched them fall into the floor
Made me stop and forget what we were fighting for
It's like everything that I ever have imagined's coming true today
There is a cost, my friends
Of living out some other dream to find the consequence
It comes and goes in seasons around here, I thought again
There's nothing left around to yield this sorry ignorance
If I do echo I hope you never see
There is no one there that's waiting after me
And I hope if there is one thing I let go it is the way that we cope
Now I hope if there is one thing that we know
From the way that you and I will wander on
And we won't become a lifeless lope that wanders round and hopes for sorrow
And I know!
I know!
I know! Know!
I know!
You both look exactly the same at night
I'd arrange the bed like crosses, watched them fall into the floor
Made me stop and forget what we were fighting for
It's like everything that I ever have imagined's coming true today
There is a cost, my friends
Of living out some other dream to find the consequence
It comes and goes in seasons around here, I thought again
There's nothing left around to yield this sorry ignorance
If I do echo I hope you never see
There is no one there that's waiting after me
And I hope if there is one thing I let go it is the way that we cope
Now I hope if there is one thing that we know
From the way that you and I will wander on
And we won't become a lifeless lope that wanders round and hopes for sorrow
And I know!
I know!
I know! Know!
I know!
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Regarding the "cope" line, I take it mean something more about using faith as ignorance. In the previous line ("If I do let go, I hope you never see / there is no one there that's waiting after me"), he expresses the hope that when he dies, the person he cares about can hold onto the idea that he's being looked after in heaven, instead of considering the possibility that there's no afterlife. In the line "I hope if there is one thing I let go, it is the way that we cope", I think he's furthering those feelings to say that he wishes he could forget/leave alone/"let go" the way that people deal with loss by telling themselves their loved ones are in a better place even if they don't really believe it. (This is just my reading of Andy's words, and maybe not what he meant by them at all.)
"And I hope if there is one thing I let go it is the way that we cope" - love this line meaning that once we've let something go and moved past it we don't have to cope with it