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 watched you change
Into a fly
I looked away
You're on fire
Yeah, I watched a change in you
It's like you never had wings
And you feel so alive
I have watched you change
I took you home
Set you on the glass
I pulled off your wings
Then I laughed
Yeah, I watched a change in you
It's like you never had wings
Now you feel so alive
I've watched you change
It's like you never had wings
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
I look at the cross
Then I look away
Give you the gun
Blow me away
I watched a change in you
It's like you never had wings
Now you feel so alive
I have watched you change
How you feel alive
You feel alive
You feel alive
I've watched you change
It's like you never had wings
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
You've changed
You've changed
You've changed
Into a fly
Into a fly
I looked away
You're on fire
Yeah, I watched a change in you
It's like you never had wings
And you feel so alive
I have watched you change
I took you home
Set you on the glass
I pulled off your wings
Then I laughed
Yeah, I watched a change in you
It's like you never had wings
Now you feel so alive
I've watched you change
It's like you never had wings
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
I look at the cross
Then I look away
Give you the gun
Blow me away
I watched a change in you
It's like you never had wings
Now you feel so alive
I have watched you change
How you feel alive
You feel alive
You feel alive
I've watched you change
It's like you never had wings
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
You've changed
You've changed
You've changed
Into a fly
Lyrics submitted by sawg, edited by Mellow_Harsher, kellylugosisdead
Change (In The House Of Flies) Lyrics as written by Chi Cheng Abe Cunningham
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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In my opinion, I think this song is more about the narrator than a victim of the narrator (whether it be a virgin girl or friend-turned-junky or whatever.) I think the narrator is suggesting he is changing into something less than human (a fly, something everyone despises, swats at and kills without remorse.) I think the narrator feels he is somewhat messed up in the head, twisted and sinister: in the verse that starts with "I took you home..." I imagine the narrator capturing a bug outside (like a fly or a beetle) taking it home, placing it on a petri dish ("set you on the glass") and using tweezers to pull its wings apart underneath a microscope. Which he finds humorous.
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