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.
It's gonna bite today
(Right)
To open a can of pain
(Wrong)
Sun scorched and blistering
(Run)
Do you know that it's all
(Gone)
Kiss my eyes shut to bash it in
It's just another payment
To how we live, how we dream, how we breed
Low rent up in the basement
The sky conforms to the surface
What's the purpose, everything is worthless
I feel a crack in the structure
It's time bleed through suffer
And I fall into myself
(And I fall myself, I fall)
I fall, I fall, I fall
Life keeps on pushing me under
(I am)
Ripping my whole world asunder
(I can)
Death is what keeps me in motion
(Will I)
Drown in this pain like an ocean
I'm falling down again
(Now)
Into the ground again
(Low)
Don't tell me what to do when I take you
And I'm gonna make you
You had in a moment what the rest of us
Need to believe isn't hopeless
Take a look at the scoreboard it's 1 nothing them
So I guess you need move more
We'll make a crack in the sun
If it feeds you the answer
And I fall into myself
(And I fall myself, I fall)
I fall, I fall, I fall
Life keeps on pushing me under
(I am)
Ripping my whole world asunder
(I can)
Death is what keeps me in motion
(Will I)
Drown in this pain like an ocean
All in my head but the waiting is over
Your thoughts can't tread into my disclosure
I'm just a face, nameless and silent
I'm such a waste that's why
And I can't erase I'm feeling all this
And I cannot frame and hide behind this
(Pain)
I did it one more time for you
And now I'm falling down again
(Pain)
I did it one more time for you
And now I'm falling down
(Pain)
I did it one more time for you
And now I'm falling down again
(Pain)
I did it one more time for you
And now I'm falling down again
Life keeps on pushing me under
[Incomprehensible]
Ripping my whole world asunder
[Incomprehensible]
Death is what keeps me in motion
[Incomprehensible]
Drown in this pain like an ocean, kill
(Right)
To open a can of pain
(Wrong)
Sun scorched and blistering
(Run)
Do you know that it's all
(Gone)
Kiss my eyes shut to bash it in
It's just another payment
To how we live, how we dream, how we breed
Low rent up in the basement
The sky conforms to the surface
What's the purpose, everything is worthless
I feel a crack in the structure
It's time bleed through suffer
And I fall into myself
(And I fall myself, I fall)
I fall, I fall, I fall
Life keeps on pushing me under
(I am)
Ripping my whole world asunder
(I can)
Death is what keeps me in motion
(Will I)
Drown in this pain like an ocean
I'm falling down again
(Now)
Into the ground again
(Low)
Don't tell me what to do when I take you
And I'm gonna make you
You had in a moment what the rest of us
Need to believe isn't hopeless
Take a look at the scoreboard it's 1 nothing them
So I guess you need move more
We'll make a crack in the sun
If it feeds you the answer
And I fall into myself
(And I fall myself, I fall)
I fall, I fall, I fall
Life keeps on pushing me under
(I am)
Ripping my whole world asunder
(I can)
Death is what keeps me in motion
(Will I)
Drown in this pain like an ocean
All in my head but the waiting is over
Your thoughts can't tread into my disclosure
I'm just a face, nameless and silent
I'm such a waste that's why
And I can't erase I'm feeling all this
And I cannot frame and hide behind this
(Pain)
I did it one more time for you
And now I'm falling down again
(Pain)
I did it one more time for you
And now I'm falling down
(Pain)
I did it one more time for you
And now I'm falling down again
(Pain)
I did it one more time for you
And now I'm falling down again
Life keeps on pushing me under
[Incomprehensible]
Ripping my whole world asunder
[Incomprehensible]
Death is what keeps me in motion
[Incomprehensible]
Drown in this pain like an ocean, kill
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I LOVE THIS FUCKING SONG.......IT GETS ME SOOOO HYPED UP...EVERYONE NEEDS TO GET THIS CD!
seen 'em 3 times live, they get better every time, everyone needs to step into the side show!
God damn great!
the fucking best group ever, feelings are so deep in all their songs
I love this song!!!!! it goes from somethign so heavy to something so beatiful, the ending of the song gives me shivers down my back, I did it one more time for you- and now im falling down again taht part gets me the most.....
All in my head but the waiting is over Your thoughts can't tread into my disclosure I'm just a face - nameless and silent I'm just a waste - that's why I... And I can't erase - I'm feeling all this I cannot frame and hide behind this (pain) I did it one more time for you - and now I'm Falling down again is the most fucking depressing line in this song...definetley explains my relationships
Fuck yeah I agree....man...This song gets me down =/
i herd this song on the pledge of allegience tour sampler out of all the songs/bands on it....THIS ONE FUCKIN ROCKS.... his voice is amazing!
Really good song. I get the impression its really deep and painful but i have only a slim idea of what it actually means..
It has a really awesome negative vibe and depressingness about with out actually being shit and emo. His voice sounds nuts.
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