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 are the new disease
Eating hearts like cancer
The sickness in our mind
Believes everything
Plagued by fiction
Like a sick addiction
There's a virus deep inside us
And it kills
Can you tasted in the blood?
When you breathe it in you lungs?
If you feel it coming on
It's too late
We are infected and no one is protected
We're so, we´re so contagious
We're apathetic and no one sympathetic
We're so contagious
You can´t contain it
You know, you can´t escape it
We're so, we´re so contagious
Our hearts betrayed us
And no one´s gonna save us
We're so contagious
When will someone admit it
We're a generation of cynics
When everyone´s a critic
And no one really gives a shit
When our hate goes viral
If ignorance is bliss
How do we live like this?
There´s nothing we can do
To try and take control
When it spreads to your soul
Can you tasted in the blood?
When you breathe it in you lungs?
If you feel it coming on
It's too late
We are infected and no one is protected
We're so, we´re so contagious
We're apathetic and no one sympathetic
We're so contagious
You can't contain it
You know you can't escape it
We're so, we´re so contagious
Our hearts betrayed us
And no one's gonna save us
We're so contagious
There´s no cure for what's in us
So pessimist quick to judge
Now there's poison on our tongues
This epidemic's gonna kill us all
We are infected and no one is protected
We're so, we´re so contagious
We're apathetic and no one sympathetic
We're so contagious
You can´t contain it
You know you can´t escape it
We're so, we're so contagious
Our hearts betrayed us
And no one´s gonna save us
We're so contagious
It's gonna kill us all
It's so contagious
Eating hearts like cancer
The sickness in our mind
Believes everything
Plagued by fiction
Like a sick addiction
There's a virus deep inside us
And it kills
Can you tasted in the blood?
When you breathe it in you lungs?
If you feel it coming on
It's too late
We are infected and no one is protected
We're so, we´re so contagious
We're apathetic and no one sympathetic
We're so contagious
You can´t contain it
You know, you can´t escape it
We're so, we´re so contagious
Our hearts betrayed us
And no one´s gonna save us
We're so contagious
When will someone admit it
We're a generation of cynics
When everyone´s a critic
And no one really gives a shit
When our hate goes viral
If ignorance is bliss
How do we live like this?
There´s nothing we can do
To try and take control
When it spreads to your soul
Can you tasted in the blood?
When you breathe it in you lungs?
If you feel it coming on
It's too late
We are infected and no one is protected
We're so, we´re so contagious
We're apathetic and no one sympathetic
We're so contagious
You can't contain it
You know you can't escape it
We're so, we´re so contagious
Our hearts betrayed us
And no one's gonna save us
We're so contagious
There´s no cure for what's in us
So pessimist quick to judge
Now there's poison on our tongues
This epidemic's gonna kill us all
We are infected and no one is protected
We're so, we´re so contagious
We're apathetic and no one sympathetic
We're so contagious
You can´t contain it
You know you can´t escape it
We're so, we're so contagious
Our hearts betrayed us
And no one´s gonna save us
We're so contagious
It's gonna kill us all
It's so contagious
Lyrics submitted by EpicNight13
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