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.
If I had to find some stray hint to describe it
Absent bouts of escape
Turn his wreckage into one of beheaded prophets
And let them all bow in refrain
This, this is how
We survive
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
If I have to find my
Way back home
In this floating deprivation
They could never deliver me
She says I'm done
And bursts into wings of tourmaline
Tourmaline
If the catatonic walls close in on the hem again
Pull the tether down for me
I've been hemorrhaging the sins of these lesser men
In cracks I didn't make
Until the lights, they flicker out
And a voice asks
"Are you safe in this cavern?"
Deep in the fathom span
Of outstretched arms, of outstretched arms
If I have to find my
Way back home
In this floating deprivation
They could never deliver me
She says I'm done
And bursts into wings of tourmaline
Please come
Please come away with me
We won't conceal the death that caves you in
Please come
Come away with me
Leaving the mountebank that did you in
Hear me callin'
If your heart, it seeks asylum
You'll be alright
If your heart is not too sure
If I have to find my
Way back home
In this floating deprivation
They could never deliver me
If I have to find my
Way back home
In this floating deprivation
They could never deliver me
She says I'm done
And bursts into wings of tourmaline
Absent bouts of escape
Turn his wreckage into one of beheaded prophets
And let them all bow in refrain
This, this is how
We survive
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
If I have to find my
Way back home
In this floating deprivation
They could never deliver me
She says I'm done
And bursts into wings of tourmaline
Tourmaline
If the catatonic walls close in on the hem again
Pull the tether down for me
I've been hemorrhaging the sins of these lesser men
In cracks I didn't make
Until the lights, they flicker out
And a voice asks
"Are you safe in this cavern?"
Deep in the fathom span
Of outstretched arms, of outstretched arms
If I have to find my
Way back home
In this floating deprivation
They could never deliver me
She says I'm done
And bursts into wings of tourmaline
Please come
Please come away with me
We won't conceal the death that caves you in
Please come
Come away with me
Leaving the mountebank that did you in
Hear me callin'
If your heart, it seeks asylum
You'll be alright
If your heart is not too sure
If I have to find my
Way back home
In this floating deprivation
They could never deliver me
If I have to find my
Way back home
In this floating deprivation
They could never deliver me
She says I'm done
And bursts into wings of tourmaline
Lyrics submitted by EternalTearsOfSorrow
Tourmaline Lyrics as written by Omar Alfredo Rodriguez-lopez Cedric Bixler
Lyrics © Wixen Music Publishing
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