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.
My crimson covered hands clutch heart strings newly broken.
Moths breed in my entrails hate washes through my fucking veins.
Friendship turns to disease, afflicting the weak of mind and heart.
You are the growing cancer, eating at my fondest memories.
Seven abandoned years thwart all affection.
Why do your whispered lies push fingernails into my palms.
The knife slipped in. Pushed by the most familiar hands.
I fell upon the comfort of your words.
A flash of light taught me a lesson in betrayal.
I fell upon the solace in your smile.
Seven wasted years. Boiling in vomit.
I will erase you. I will erase you from this heart.
From my memory I cut away.
You’re just a name to me. A friend is now a ghost.
I will never give again.
You have forsaken any faith I had in you.
All the love I had for you.
I am reborn. Baptized in flame.
Clean of your deceitful looming.
Friends are beneath me. I can’t face this pain again.
I’ll die alone, but at least i’ll know who loves me.
I am a shadow of myself pent up in walls of human shit.
Annihilating anything that bears your name.
I am a hollowed wooden shell made strong by that which I abhor.
Committing only to creating your demise.
And so I pray for sleep and to see anything but red.
All purpose has been drained from me.
A friendship ends in pain. Morose claims my every word.
All trust has been carved out of me
Seven wasted years boiling in vomit.
I will erase you. I will erase you from this heart.
From my memory I cut away.
You’re just a name to me. A friend is now a ghost.
Moths breed in my entrails hate washes through my fucking veins.
Friendship turns to disease, afflicting the weak of mind and heart.
You are the growing cancer, eating at my fondest memories.
Seven abandoned years thwart all affection.
Why do your whispered lies push fingernails into my palms.
The knife slipped in. Pushed by the most familiar hands.
I fell upon the comfort of your words.
A flash of light taught me a lesson in betrayal.
I fell upon the solace in your smile.
Seven wasted years. Boiling in vomit.
I will erase you. I will erase you from this heart.
From my memory I cut away.
You’re just a name to me. A friend is now a ghost.
I will never give again.
You have forsaken any faith I had in you.
All the love I had for you.
I am reborn. Baptized in flame.
Clean of your deceitful looming.
Friends are beneath me. I can’t face this pain again.
I’ll die alone, but at least i’ll know who loves me.
I am a shadow of myself pent up in walls of human shit.
Annihilating anything that bears your name.
I am a hollowed wooden shell made strong by that which I abhor.
Committing only to creating your demise.
And so I pray for sleep and to see anything but red.
All purpose has been drained from me.
A friendship ends in pain. Morose claims my every word.
All trust has been carved out of me
Seven wasted years boiling in vomit.
I will erase you. I will erase you from this heart.
From my memory I cut away.
You’re just a name to me. A friend is now a ghost.
Lyrics submitted by x_melancholy_x
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