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.
Dream of me
We can live how we want now
This world has no boundaries
We shall never wake up
Lets kill them all, let's torch the world
This is for us
Let's meet them for the first time
This isn't awkward is it?
It can't be
There are no worries
All we have to do is cut the switch
Wake the fuck up
This is all I've ever dreamed
This dream is all I've ever wanted, cared for, I only hope things haven't changed when I awake
Life doesn't work like this
Once a night my life is yours to create
Mold me and make me the child of the night, with all the ambition in the world
My hate and worries cease to be
My fucked up little head controls me
Dream is destiny
Wake the fuck up
I kill, I love, I end nightmares, I begin romances
I travel through sexual situations, and I only hope to never wake
I only hope, cause the exterior world is not making sense anymore
I tend to get scared
Wake the fuck up, no
Whatever you do, don't be bored
This is absolutely the most exciting time we could have possibly hoped to be alive
And things are just starting
Make this dream reality
Love you
If the world that we are forced to accept is false and nothing is true
Then everything is possible
Make this dream reality
We can live how we want now
This world has no boundaries
We shall never wake up
Lets kill them all, let's torch the world
This is for us
Let's meet them for the first time
This isn't awkward is it?
It can't be
There are no worries
All we have to do is cut the switch
Wake the fuck up
This is all I've ever dreamed
This dream is all I've ever wanted, cared for, I only hope things haven't changed when I awake
Life doesn't work like this
Once a night my life is yours to create
Mold me and make me the child of the night, with all the ambition in the world
My hate and worries cease to be
My fucked up little head controls me
Dream is destiny
Wake the fuck up
I kill, I love, I end nightmares, I begin romances
I travel through sexual situations, and I only hope to never wake
I only hope, cause the exterior world is not making sense anymore
I tend to get scared
Wake the fuck up, no
Whatever you do, don't be bored
This is absolutely the most exciting time we could have possibly hoped to be alive
And things are just starting
Make this dream reality
Love you
If the world that we are forced to accept is false and nothing is true
Then everything is possible
Make this dream reality
Lyrics submitted by x_melancholy_x, edited by Mellow_Harsher
Shevanel Cut a Flip Lyrics as written by Daniel Hanford Briggs Cartland Blake Richardson
Lyrics © BTBAM PUBLISHING
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"This song is inspired by the movie "waking life". It¹s about how interesting and weird dreams can be. You can live any life you want in dreams and sometimes it seems better than life itself. The sentences are very random and sometimes don¹t seem to make sense. I did this on purpose because when you dream, everything is very random. So I wrote it like it was a dream. The subject of dreams has really interested me lately, and I have a newer song written focusing on that subject as well. -tommy" -------- betweentheburiedandme.com
waking life is a fantastic movie. i completely recomend checking it out if you haven't arleady... what does Shevanel Cut A Flip mean?
i seen them live like last week.. it was the god damnedest thing ive ever thing.. it was like ppl kicking the fuck out of me one sec.. then everyone in teh crowd dancing.. never seen no shit like that.. but i highly reccomend seeing them live..
lol yeah i went to a show and they were karate kicking and then a wave of people jumped on each on everyone at the front to sing "lets kill them all"....then the pretty part hit and everyone was slow dancing with each other. it was sweet
before listening to this song, waking life was my favorite movie. the coincidences between my thoughts and thinking and btbam are too numerous to count and too close to my heart to share.
Replying to xwigginx.<br /> <br /> Your entire post sums up the entire way I feel about between the buried and me. So so many coincidences it's unreal. for example last night, i did some reading on certain herbs and plants that can induce more intense dreaming when you sleep and today i decided to listen to this self titled album (which I haven't listened to very in depthly)<br /> <br /> I just finished listening to Shevanel cut a flip, when I decided to check out the lyrics so I could work out the lyrics to the harmony's at the end (no luck!) and I began seeing the similarities between the concept and context of this song and shevanal take 2, and of course the whole idea of dreaming and creating your own reality. And also finding someone else who seems to see many coincidences between their music and one's own thoughts and musings.<br /> <br /> Other coincidence's off the top of my head include, my love for the movie mulholland drive and then seeing mentions of the Camilla Rhodes in songs... which would be too long for me to explain why this is so personal to me.<br /> <br /> Just so good to hear that someone else feels such a personal bond to the band, on an almost metaphysical level.
I'm not sure exactly what the term "Shevanel Cut a Flip" means but Tommy mentions Shevanel and Plip in the song Mordecai (also an amazing song). On the website Tommy explains that Shevanel and Plip were a homeless person and his pet that he had met in some city that looked like the saddest, poorest beings on the planet but actually were some of the happiest beings that he had ever met. He is referring to Shevanel in the title of this song because even though he may have a sad reality, his dreams could be everything he ever wanted and perhaps that was why Shevanel seemed so happy.
The lyrics in quotations are taken directly from the moving waking life.
I've never seen waking life but based on descriptions it makes a perfect connection to the lyrics. I love this song because its insanely unusual and rare and in a way, balanced out. Listening to the first 3 1/2 minutes makes me think "man this song is brutal as fuck" because it's INSANELY spastic and while tommy is still a great vocalist, in the first 2 albums he had psychotic range! Anyway after my ears were raped by the intensity of the first few minutes, I was intrigued by a 6 minute ballad section, where the last sentence is sung beautifully. Do I think a 6 minute ballad is what you should hear after a 3 1/2 minute deathcore section? YES!!! Brilliant idea.
Also the second wake the fuck up sounds like "WAIT TO BURN YOUUUU!" lol. And the part after that where all the lyrics overlap is so awesome.
Ok, now after I've seen waking life, i listened to this song and most of it made sense. And during the movie I recognized some of the lines from this song. Waking life is such an unusual movie and mostly insane but in general I liked it. The funny thing is my mom HATED this song and walked out of the room after watching half an hour of waking life. It's a love or hate movie, but anyway, this song is even more badass.