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.
Hey kiss me I kiss you
Kiss me I kiss you
I know about you
I've been told about you
I've been waiting for you
And the air's thin
Tiny holes
And everybody wants to know you
Is rapt like moon river
Then beyond the blinds
The new white slacks alight
Sliding into the city
Tunnel beneath the feet of the people in the city
Roamin' roamin' roamin' in the city
And crossway boy
Crossway boy
Downtown waterfront boy
And the shadows where the ambi and the motor meet
And she's on the phone again
Surfin' she's on the phone again
She's calling from America
She's calling from America
She's surfin' she's moshing
And the girls are diving and the girls are up to something
Animal boy thing up on the roof again
Boy thing lookin'down there
And there's every kind of lack
To make it down to the Delaware
And up in your head
And moaner moaner moaner moaner
Rudy get the get the get the get the get the
Night the city loves you
City loves a boyfriend
Love walks with a boyfriend
A city loves a boyfriend
Friends walking with a boyfriend
And the night's with a boyfriend
And the city loves you loves you loves you
Loves everyone
Everyone is smiling
The smiling is pushing it around
It's pushing it around
Like shadows in the evolution in the dark
And the super boys
Where time is all where time is everything
Where time of all this started
As we're turned to earth earth wind and fire
Get the sound in your head
Black metal walls are crawling
I am the hunger above your town
A little sound in a little amp
I am dubious hard metal I am stainless
I am milk in your plastic
I am wrapped in this left alone
In a full moon with
The only thing I can do
Lying awake on the floor
At night the doors I can't I can't awake I can't awake
Ah ah ah ah
Water into you to me constantly
Constantly
Without without without without again without again
Your telephone number
Through the glass of water
The instance between is opened
The silence is indifferent and your love love love
Love walks with the boyfriend
The city loves a boyfriend
Friends walking
Friends walking with a boyfriend
The city loves a boyfriend
Everybody loves a boyfriend
You left me alone you left me alone
With a full moon
Full moon full moon full moon full moon full moon
Boys boys boys boys
Cross crossway crossway boy
Down on the waterfront
Kiss me I kiss you
I know about you
I've been told about you
I've been waiting for you
And the air's thin
Tiny holes
And everybody wants to know you
Is rapt like moon river
Then beyond the blinds
The new white slacks alight
Sliding into the city
Tunnel beneath the feet of the people in the city
Roamin' roamin' roamin' in the city
And crossway boy
Crossway boy
Downtown waterfront boy
And the shadows where the ambi and the motor meet
And she's on the phone again
Surfin' she's on the phone again
She's calling from America
She's calling from America
She's surfin' she's moshing
And the girls are diving and the girls are up to something
Animal boy thing up on the roof again
Boy thing lookin'down there
And there's every kind of lack
To make it down to the Delaware
And up in your head
And moaner moaner moaner moaner
Rudy get the get the get the get the get the
Night the city loves you
City loves a boyfriend
Love walks with a boyfriend
A city loves a boyfriend
Friends walking with a boyfriend
And the night's with a boyfriend
And the city loves you loves you loves you
Loves everyone
Everyone is smiling
The smiling is pushing it around
It's pushing it around
Like shadows in the evolution in the dark
And the super boys
Where time is all where time is everything
Where time of all this started
As we're turned to earth earth wind and fire
Get the sound in your head
Black metal walls are crawling
I am the hunger above your town
A little sound in a little amp
I am dubious hard metal I am stainless
I am milk in your plastic
I am wrapped in this left alone
In a full moon with
The only thing I can do
Lying awake on the floor
At night the doors I can't I can't awake I can't awake
Ah ah ah ah
Water into you to me constantly
Constantly
Without without without without again without again
Your telephone number
Through the glass of water
The instance between is opened
The silence is indifferent and your love love love
Love walks with the boyfriend
The city loves a boyfriend
Friends walking
Friends walking with a boyfriend
The city loves a boyfriend
Everybody loves a boyfriend
You left me alone you left me alone
With a full moon
Full moon full moon full moon full moon full moon
Boys boys boys boys
Cross crossway crossway boy
Down on the waterfront
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