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.
Walking Wall of Beards, Incorporated, was a company that existed in the early 1900's in America where they would make these sound devices which were pleasing to beard hair and pubic hair, but they were inaudible to the human ear. And if you bought one and you turned it on in your house and all the pubic hair in your house and if you lived near a barber shop you were really doing good, all the hair that was laying around would form walls and walk around. So if you were living, like say in Philadelphia in the 1900's, it wouldn't be unusual to see a wall of hair walking around. And we wanted to do this post nervous breakdown gig in tribute to that company that was thousands of years ahead of its time. And one day we will all look like fools for not having beard walls to walk around with. Because in the future it's going to be really hip. Well, anyway, I just wanted to explain that.
Lyrics submitted by ASpicer3
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