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.
You take the long way, wrong way to form me
And the time is now
I never would have thought this is the new me
So many people, so many faces left to please around me
You're ready to play dead, I'm ready to face it, face it
As I'm falling to pieces, the vultures are feasting
We've breached the precipice, long way down
Now I'll say this, I'm in hell
Passed the mark I've missed
Mistakes running through my brain
There's a lesson to be learned and I'll heal again
Bloodstains cover all the walls
I'm the pessimist patient doll
Now here I sit, like a marionette
Strings on my limbs, rope on my neck
The hell below exists within my bed
Counting every misstep till it's time to reset
It feels so low, the love I've known
Floating on my own
Forward, back, it's all the same now
This is a one-way road
It feels so low, the love I've known
Floating on my own
Slow or fast, it's all the same now
Somebody do it slowly
Kill me slowly
The past is cutting through me
And all the imperfections, they show
Heartbeat haunts me
When all the bad times stick
And I don't know what to do with them
I'm burning like wildfire
Take me fucking out of this hole
Heartbeat haunts me
'Cause all the bad times stayed
And I don't know what I'm doing here
Mistakes coursing through my veins
Like the heroin needle to the addict's brain
Bloodstains hanging from the wall
Is the pessimist patient doll
So here I sit like a marionette
A slave to thoughts, they're like a weight on my chest
An appetite for neither food nor sex
With a malicious intent, I'll take two to the head, oh
You put the strings on my limbs
I put the rope on my neck
You put the strings on my limbs
I put the rope around my fucking neck
You put the strings on my limbs
Now I'm the one with the rope on my neck
The past is cutting through me
And all the imperfections, they show
Heartbeat haunts me
When all the bad times stick
And I don't know what to do with them
I'm burning like wildfire
I don't know what I'm doing here
The past is cutting through me
And all the imperfections, they show
Heartbeat haunts me
When all the bad times stick
And I don't know what to do with them
I'm burning like wildfire
Take me fucking out of this hole
Heartbeat haunts me
'Cause all the bad times stayed
And I don't know what I'm doing here
And the time is now
I never would have thought this is the new me
So many people, so many faces left to please around me
You're ready to play dead, I'm ready to face it, face it
As I'm falling to pieces, the vultures are feasting
We've breached the precipice, long way down
Now I'll say this, I'm in hell
Passed the mark I've missed
Mistakes running through my brain
There's a lesson to be learned and I'll heal again
Bloodstains cover all the walls
I'm the pessimist patient doll
Now here I sit, like a marionette
Strings on my limbs, rope on my neck
The hell below exists within my bed
Counting every misstep till it's time to reset
It feels so low, the love I've known
Floating on my own
Forward, back, it's all the same now
This is a one-way road
It feels so low, the love I've known
Floating on my own
Slow or fast, it's all the same now
Somebody do it slowly
Kill me slowly
The past is cutting through me
And all the imperfections, they show
Heartbeat haunts me
When all the bad times stick
And I don't know what to do with them
I'm burning like wildfire
Take me fucking out of this hole
Heartbeat haunts me
'Cause all the bad times stayed
And I don't know what I'm doing here
Mistakes coursing through my veins
Like the heroin needle to the addict's brain
Bloodstains hanging from the wall
Is the pessimist patient doll
So here I sit like a marionette
A slave to thoughts, they're like a weight on my chest
An appetite for neither food nor sex
With a malicious intent, I'll take two to the head, oh
You put the strings on my limbs
I put the rope on my neck
You put the strings on my limbs
I put the rope around my fucking neck
You put the strings on my limbs
Now I'm the one with the rope on my neck
The past is cutting through me
And all the imperfections, they show
Heartbeat haunts me
When all the bad times stick
And I don't know what to do with them
I'm burning like wildfire
I don't know what I'm doing here
The past is cutting through me
And all the imperfections, they show
Heartbeat haunts me
When all the bad times stick
And I don't know what to do with them
I'm burning like wildfire
Take me fucking out of this hole
Heartbeat haunts me
'Cause all the bad times stayed
And I don't know what I'm doing here
Lyrics submitted by EternalTearsOfSorrow
Wildfire Lyrics as written by Mark Holcomb Jake Bowen
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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