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.
Are you satisfied
You destroyed my life
Taken away everything that I want to be
Sitting around waiting to die
Has to be better then living this lie
This can not be
You say that you love me
The words make no sense
If you love me then why are you with him
Wishing I could live in a world
Where pain and suffering don’t exist
Being a utopia
My world has much distance
Swirling in these thoughts of you
Wondering whether your words are true
I’m foolish and depressed
As I take one step closer to death
I’m caught up in this twisted web you’ve hung
Fooling me into loving you
Not even know if your true
You say that you love me too
And I can’t see what’s done is done
Your words are like the sweetest kiss
Thrown in my thoughts it becomes a mist
Engulfing me and all I see is you
Wondering if you see me too
I’ve been lied to before
It’s nothing new to me
But coming from someone like you
It tears me in two
I’m caught up in this twisted web you’ve hung
Fooling me into loving you
Not even know if your true
You say that you love me too
And I can’t see what’s done is done
Oh what a wicked web we’ve sewn
What is done we have to own
Stepping forth from innocence
Lost in your words it makes no sense
We need to see what’s done is done
You were everything to me
You are everything to me
You will be everything to me
You just need to see (what’s done is done)
I’m caught up in this twisted web you’ve hung
Fooling me into loving you
Not even know if your true
You say that you love me too
And I can’t see what’s done is done
You are mine
I am yours
Twisted
Misshapen
I am reborn
You destroyed my life
Taken away everything that I want to be
Sitting around waiting to die
Has to be better then living this lie
This can not be
You say that you love me
The words make no sense
If you love me then why are you with him
Wishing I could live in a world
Where pain and suffering don’t exist
Being a utopia
My world has much distance
Swirling in these thoughts of you
Wondering whether your words are true
I’m foolish and depressed
As I take one step closer to death
I’m caught up in this twisted web you’ve hung
Fooling me into loving you
Not even know if your true
You say that you love me too
And I can’t see what’s done is done
Your words are like the sweetest kiss
Thrown in my thoughts it becomes a mist
Engulfing me and all I see is you
Wondering if you see me too
I’ve been lied to before
It’s nothing new to me
But coming from someone like you
It tears me in two
I’m caught up in this twisted web you’ve hung
Fooling me into loving you
Not even know if your true
You say that you love me too
And I can’t see what’s done is done
Oh what a wicked web we’ve sewn
What is done we have to own
Stepping forth from innocence
Lost in your words it makes no sense
We need to see what’s done is done
You were everything to me
You are everything to me
You will be everything to me
You just need to see (what’s done is done)
I’m caught up in this twisted web you’ve hung
Fooling me into loving you
Not even know if your true
You say that you love me too
And I can’t see what’s done is done
You are mine
I am yours
Twisted
Misshapen
I am reborn
Lyrics submitted by Syn40Degree
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