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.
Down the path of resistance
I find myself stumbling
Through my wants and my failures
Weaker than the thrill
Temptations attack our loyalty
Both the idea and institution
An equation of emotion
Too thick for calculation
But in the solution 1 and 1 are 3
So when you see me pass me by
Crossed my fingers
Wish that you won't notice
Even red letter days still end with night
In sleep we remain hopeful
Pay back to February
And heavy eyelids see plots unfold
To movie endings
Searching a bed room ceiling
Finding subtleties, finding flaws
But never answers
For what you did or what you do!!
I know the past still stings
But deafened ears waste apologies
So when you see me pass me by
Crossed my fingers
Wish that you won't notice
Even red letter days still end
With night and dreams
To wake and find another
So go to sleep
Turn off your ringer
Just close your eyes
Afraid of what is left to find out
Until the daylight drips
In our eyes in sleep
We'll remain hopeful
There is nothing left to say!!!!!
So when you see me pass me by
Crossed my fingers
Wish that you won't notice
Even red letter days still end
With night and dreams
To wake and find another
So go to sleep
Turn off your ringer
Just close your eyes
Afraid of what is left to find out
Until the daylight drips
In our eyes in sleep
We'll remain hopeful
I find myself stumbling
Through my wants and my failures
Weaker than the thrill
Temptations attack our loyalty
Both the idea and institution
An equation of emotion
Too thick for calculation
But in the solution 1 and 1 are 3
So when you see me pass me by
Crossed my fingers
Wish that you won't notice
Even red letter days still end with night
In sleep we remain hopeful
Pay back to February
And heavy eyelids see plots unfold
To movie endings
Searching a bed room ceiling
Finding subtleties, finding flaws
But never answers
For what you did or what you do!!
I know the past still stings
But deafened ears waste apologies
So when you see me pass me by
Crossed my fingers
Wish that you won't notice
Even red letter days still end
With night and dreams
To wake and find another
So go to sleep
Turn off your ringer
Just close your eyes
Afraid of what is left to find out
Until the daylight drips
In our eyes in sleep
We'll remain hopeful
There is nothing left to say!!!!!
So when you see me pass me by
Crossed my fingers
Wish that you won't notice
Even red letter days still end
With night and dreams
To wake and find another
So go to sleep
Turn off your ringer
Just close your eyes
Afraid of what is left to find out
Until the daylight drips
In our eyes in sleep
We'll remain hopeful
Lyrics submitted by JackSkellingt0n
Confessions of a Lesser Known Saint Lyrics as written by Christopher Mosley Brandon Thrasher
Lyrics © Reservoir Media Management, Inc.
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another bad@ss song! Yet another song(like most of them on their newest Cd: When Reason Sleeps) about telling off his woman(Vicki).
What would be funny would be if both singers wrote this song for the same woman, cuz they both dated her at the same time. Like in that movie 'Splendor".
i love this song! the part that says:
pay back to febuary and heavy eyelids see plots unfold to movie endings searching a bedroom ceiling finding subtleties,finding flaws, never answers for what you did or what you do i know the past still stings but deafened ears waste apologies
applies to me well cause almost the exact same situation happend to me. ^_^
my favorite part is when the high-pitched singer goes "there's nothing left to say!!!" and holds that scream of his for awhile. this is definitely haste's heaviest song.