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.
A vast hormonal elevation, begins
Nasty ovulatory phase, brutal malaise
The constant shedding of chunks
Strip-mining cavern of blood
Ovarian follicle ruptures, discharging ovum in spurts
The uterus as a weapon
A gross underestimation of vaginal deception
Fallopian fenestration
Bulbous with inflammation, read for the penetration
An aperture in need of a catheter
The flow is too heavy, destroying the levee
One half of the reason for overpopulation
Projectile ovulation, a uterine explosion
Bursting forth, a river of sanguineous hell
A slough from her trough and passing out from the smell
Ketones, platelets and hemoglobin
Erythrocytic disgorgence
Oxygenated molecules agglutinate to your face
Directly I ingest from the abscess
Profusely redirect the spewt onto the Sunday dress
Each and every human is an object
I've only torture for my subjects
Subjected to very distorted objective view of this species
Humanity and what should happen to it
I concur, they're idiots, both male and female pieces of shit
Kill me, I'm dreaming of lifeblood zygote streaming
Breeders on an earth already teeming with bastards
Bent on over breeding and becoming the masters of a planet
For which we've planned only disaster
Human reproduction, a massive stimulation of biological degradation
Environmental abolition
Grounds for accusation and total annihilation
Bleeding and breeding and in need of some terminating
All genders
All humans
Are disgusting wretched pigs for the slaughter
Nasty ovulatory phase, brutal malaise
The constant shedding of chunks
Strip-mining cavern of blood
Ovarian follicle ruptures, discharging ovum in spurts
The uterus as a weapon
A gross underestimation of vaginal deception
Fallopian fenestration
Bulbous with inflammation, read for the penetration
An aperture in need of a catheter
The flow is too heavy, destroying the levee
One half of the reason for overpopulation
Projectile ovulation, a uterine explosion
Bursting forth, a river of sanguineous hell
A slough from her trough and passing out from the smell
Ketones, platelets and hemoglobin
Erythrocytic disgorgence
Oxygenated molecules agglutinate to your face
Directly I ingest from the abscess
Profusely redirect the spewt onto the Sunday dress
Each and every human is an object
I've only torture for my subjects
Subjected to very distorted objective view of this species
Humanity and what should happen to it
I concur, they're idiots, both male and female pieces of shit
Kill me, I'm dreaming of lifeblood zygote streaming
Breeders on an earth already teeming with bastards
Bent on over breeding and becoming the masters of a planet
For which we've planned only disaster
Human reproduction, a massive stimulation of biological degradation
Environmental abolition
Grounds for accusation and total annihilation
Bleeding and breeding and in need of some terminating
All genders
All humans
Are disgusting wretched pigs for the slaughter
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