I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
Life, mama says
Is bloodletting go
If I care for nothing
Sun don't shine and the grass don't grow
Bloodletting go
Society dictates
By rules and regulations
But when things are so tired
You see things in the wrong light
Soon there will be no light
If the sun don't shine
Life, mama says
Is bloodletting go
If I care for nothing
Sun don't shine and the grass don't grow
Bloodletting go
If by chance we both forget
The passage of space and time between
Pick up the pieces cold and wet
And drive them before the light to clean
Good times, bad times
Pain will come and pain will go
If I care for nothing
Sun don't shine
And if by chance we both forget
The passage of space and time between
Pick up the pieces cold and wet
And drive them before the light to clean
Good times, bad times
Pain will come and pain will go
If I care for nothing
Sun don't shine and the grass don't grow
Bloodletting go
Is bloodletting go
If I care for nothing
Sun don't shine and the grass don't grow
Bloodletting go
Society dictates
By rules and regulations
But when things are so tired
You see things in the wrong light
Soon there will be no light
If the sun don't shine
Life, mama says
Is bloodletting go
If I care for nothing
Sun don't shine and the grass don't grow
Bloodletting go
If by chance we both forget
The passage of space and time between
Pick up the pieces cold and wet
And drive them before the light to clean
Good times, bad times
Pain will come and pain will go
If I care for nothing
Sun don't shine
And if by chance we both forget
The passage of space and time between
Pick up the pieces cold and wet
And drive them before the light to clean
Good times, bad times
Pain will come and pain will go
If I care for nothing
Sun don't shine and the grass don't grow
Bloodletting go
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I think it was after he left. Look for what year it was recorded..