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.
I am made of a hard skin
So I don't know how so much pain still gets in
Scars between you and me, my friend
A stone thrown, skips across the sea and smokes a child there
So I go down to the sea
Where I will breathe air
Take back a piece of me
I let it bleed out
I rage, from within
My bones break
But when they mend
The stone returns again
So I go down to the sea
Where I will breathe air
Take back a piece of me
Then I'll bleed, bleed, yeah-a-yeah
Wounds held inside
Blown open wide
Open wide
Then I'll bleed
Bleed, yeah-a-yeah
Wounds held inside
They are blown open
Oh, there's a sound of the phone not ringing
It echoes in my home
See all my friends in a crowd of you
Tell me why I'm so goddamn alone
And I felt I could do anything
That's why I made you see for me
Say it's not there, but across the sea
The stone takes a chunk of change from me
I can wait for a long time
Step to me, take a step back boy
Take a chunk of change again
Just let me go down to the sea
Where I will breathe, breathe air
Take back a piece of me
I let it bleed, bleed, yeah-a-yeah
Wounds held inside
They are blown open wide, open wide.
So I don't know how so much pain still gets in
Scars between you and me, my friend
A stone thrown, skips across the sea and smokes a child there
So I go down to the sea
Where I will breathe air
Take back a piece of me
I let it bleed out
I rage, from within
My bones break
But when they mend
The stone returns again
So I go down to the sea
Where I will breathe air
Take back a piece of me
Then I'll bleed, bleed, yeah-a-yeah
Wounds held inside
Blown open wide
Open wide
Then I'll bleed
Bleed, yeah-a-yeah
Wounds held inside
They are blown open
Oh, there's a sound of the phone not ringing
It echoes in my home
See all my friends in a crowd of you
Tell me why I'm so goddamn alone
And I felt I could do anything
That's why I made you see for me
Say it's not there, but across the sea
The stone takes a chunk of change from me
I can wait for a long time
Step to me, take a step back boy
Take a chunk of change again
Just let me go down to the sea
Where I will breathe, breathe air
Take back a piece of me
I let it bleed, bleed, yeah-a-yeah
Wounds held inside
They are blown open wide, open wide.
Lyrics submitted by *Dalva*
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