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.
Oh, an incurable humanist you are
Oh, an incurable humanist you are
You are, you are, are, you are, you
Oh, an incurable humanist you are
Oh, an incurable humanist you, ooh, ooh, ooh are, are, are, are
You, ooh, ooh, ooh are, are, are, are
Let's go to the movies
I will hum you a song about nothin' at all
Let's go to the movies
I will hum you a song about nothin' at all
Let's go to the movies, let's go to the movies
Nothin' at all, nothin' at all
Nothin' at all, nothin' at all, all
Oh, an incurable humanist you are
Oh, an incurable humanist you, ooh, ooh, ooh are, are, are, are
You, ooh, ooh, ooh are, are, are, are
Let's go to the movies
I will sing you a song about nothin' at all
Let's go to the movies
I will sing you a song about nothin' at all
Let's go to the movies, let's go to the movies
Nothin' at all, nothin' at all
Nothin' at all, nothin' at all, all
Sit down, class, open up your textbooks to page 42
Porcupine-ology, antler-ology
Car-ology, bus-ology, train-ology, plane-ology
Mama-ology, papa-ology
You-ology, me-ology
Love-ology, kiss-ology
Stay-ology, please-ology
Let's study, class, let's study, class
Sit down
Love-ology, love-ology
I'm sorry-ology, forgive me-ology
Love-ology, love-ology
I'm sorry-ology, forgive me-ology
Love-ology, love-ology
Love-ology, love-ology
Let's study, class, let's study, class
Sit down
Love-ology, love-ology
I'm sorry-ology, forgive me-ology
Love-ology, love-ology
I'm sorry-ology, forgive me-ology
Oh, an incurable humanist you are
Oh, an incurable humanist you are
I'm sorry, forgive me
I'm sorry-ology
Forgive me, I'm sorry
Forgive me-ology
Forgive me, forgive me
Forgive me-ology
Oh, an incurable humanist you are
You are, you are, are, you are, you
Oh, an incurable humanist you are
Oh, an incurable humanist you, ooh, ooh, ooh are, are, are, are
You, ooh, ooh, ooh are, are, are, are
Let's go to the movies
I will hum you a song about nothin' at all
Let's go to the movies
I will hum you a song about nothin' at all
Let's go to the movies, let's go to the movies
Nothin' at all, nothin' at all
Nothin' at all, nothin' at all, all
Oh, an incurable humanist you are
Oh, an incurable humanist you, ooh, ooh, ooh are, are, are, are
You, ooh, ooh, ooh are, are, are, are
Let's go to the movies
I will sing you a song about nothin' at all
Let's go to the movies
I will sing you a song about nothin' at all
Let's go to the movies, let's go to the movies
Nothin' at all, nothin' at all
Nothin' at all, nothin' at all, all
Sit down, class, open up your textbooks to page 42
Porcupine-ology, antler-ology
Car-ology, bus-ology, train-ology, plane-ology
Mama-ology, papa-ology
You-ology, me-ology
Love-ology, kiss-ology
Stay-ology, please-ology
Let's study, class, let's study, class
Sit down
Love-ology, love-ology
I'm sorry-ology, forgive me-ology
Love-ology, love-ology
I'm sorry-ology, forgive me-ology
Love-ology, love-ology
Love-ology, love-ology
Let's study, class, let's study, class
Sit down
Love-ology, love-ology
I'm sorry-ology, forgive me-ology
Love-ology, love-ology
I'm sorry-ology, forgive me-ology
Oh, an incurable humanist you are
Oh, an incurable humanist you are
I'm sorry, forgive me
I'm sorry-ology
Forgive me, I'm sorry
Forgive me-ology
Forgive me, forgive me
Forgive me-ology
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her songs are so random, i love it. i think it's kind of interesting how the scenario is supposedly a classroom... but 'loveology' is obviously something not taught in school. maybe things like loveology, kissology, stayology, pleaseology, forgive-me-ology are things everyone has to learn but are never explicitly taught.
this is the most beautiful song i've ever heard
i love the lines : Love-ology, love-ology, I'm sorry-ology, forgive me-ology, love-ology, love-ology. I'm sorry-ology, forgive me-ology, love-ology, Love-ology.
They are sung so beautifully
@Rae123 yes, it brings a tear to my eyes
@Rae123 yes, it brings a tear to my eyes
i think Mongolev is on nearly the same track as i am on this song.
(i just want to note that i know that regina rarely writes songs pertaining to herself, but for ease of writing i'm just using 'she')
i think this song follows a similar theme to 'The Scientist' by Coldplay, where a person who thinks more in 'rational' and mathematical/scientific terms tries to explain and justify his irrational love emotions. she describes the person in question as an incurable humanist, and if we are to take the song sort of literally and she's teaching a science course, the narrator thinks in a 'scientific' way. the song is her way to desperately try and explain her feelings -- and love is such an irrational emotion -- in a way that makes sense to her (science).
perhaps she was seen as cold by the person in question and that's why the relationship broke apart, and she is trying to prove that she indeed can understand love and emotions, albeit in her own way.
i like all the other responses, but something that stuck out to me was that she repeats loveology quite a bit. she makes it sound like it's hard to learn about it; like the sorries and forgive mes and love mes aren't something one can learn about in school, like love, you, me, and please. and i'm also thinking that the humanist reference is also referring to how people try to categorize and study everything, when a lot of things can only be experienced.
I loooove this song. With the cello (I think) it is especially beautiful.
Porcupine-ology...I forgot what other songs that is mentioned in, but I think that is her innocent way of saying 'sex' :P
Yep, it's from Marry Ann: songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858534895/
I love how in
"Porcupine-ology, antler-ology, car-ology, bus-ology, train-ology, plane-ology, mama-ology, papa-ology,you-ology, me-ology, love-ology, kiss-ology, stay-ology, please-ology."
how "you-ology" sounds strangely like the word 'eulogy', which is the speech one says at a funeral, so she may be saying that although the relationship may be "dead", she wants forgiveness.
Loveology.. a subject that is just as ambiguous, fickle, and incomprehensible sometimes as any other subject that changes according to new particulars. A subject that we all study and none have become masters of, which sincerely troubles everyone at some point in their lives... occupying every corner of one's mind to the state of being stationary, waiting.
I'm sorryology, forgivemeology... the study of the human condition. What to let live, what to let die. How to make decisions that you don't want to make, but have to. Allowing yourself to become vulnerable and expose your deepest self in order to allow your partner to trust you again.
So, so heartbreaking.
I think that many of the above posters were right in that it is a musing on how the most important things in life are never taught. "Loveology", "Stayology", "Pleaseology", "I'm-Sorryology", "Forgive-Meology", "Kissology" - how to cope in a relationship, "Busology", "Planeology", "Trainology" - how to move through your life easily, "Mamaology", "Papaology" - how to be part of a family, "Meology", "Youology" - how to develop your own identity and/or what it MEANS to have an identity, and "Porcupineology" and "Antlerology" - discreet metaphors for sex. Using these 'euphemisms' for sex may also be a jibe at how the education system balks at the prospect of sex education.
Alternatively, or maybe simultaneously, I can read it as someone trying to apologize to their partner, trying to beseech them to stay with them and forgive them, but the person is too scared or too insecure to let all these feelings out at once so they disguise them in the midst of a stream of miscellaneous babble.
"Open up your textbooks", "Let's study class" are saying that the 'narrator' is learning about these things through experience.