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.
Look at the place of mine behind the curb
Through the layers found in earthen drift, indeed that is you
And with you, mother screams "I am mother"
Woman screams "I am fertile" and the father can't yell
Rain direction down with stony mind
Created fill the empty river
And you keep remembering mother screaming "I am mother"
Woman screaming "I am fertile" and the father
He hasn't been born yet, he hasn't been born yet
All has been forgotten and the plastic turns to rotten
Rays and smells
While pointing to the deathly beautiful
Mother there in pain creating
Woman who just lies there waiting and the father
He hasn't been born yet, he hasn't been born yet
You may drift there if you want to, luggage fits inside your pocket like a bill
And keep remembering, mother screaming lost her way
Woman screaming she won't stay and your father, hasn't been born yet
All has been forgotten and the plastic turns to rotten
Rays and smells
While pointing to the deathly beautiful
Mother who in pain creating
Woman who just lies there waiting and the father
He hasn't been born yet, he hasn't been born yet
He hasn't been born yet, he hasn't been born yet
He hasn't been born yet
All has been forgotten and the plastic turns to rotten
Rays and smells
While pointing to the deathly beautiful
Mother who in pain creating
Woman who just lies there waiting and the father
He hasn't been born yet, he hasn't been born yet
He hasn't been born yet, he hasn't been born yet
All has been forgotten and the plastic turns to rotten
Rays and smells
While pointing to the deathly beautiful
Mother who in pain creating
Woman who just lies there waiting and the father
He hasn't been born yet
Through the layers found in earthen drift, indeed that is you
And with you, mother screams "I am mother"
Woman screams "I am fertile" and the father can't yell
Rain direction down with stony mind
Created fill the empty river
And you keep remembering mother screaming "I am mother"
Woman screaming "I am fertile" and the father
He hasn't been born yet, he hasn't been born yet
All has been forgotten and the plastic turns to rotten
Rays and smells
While pointing to the deathly beautiful
Mother there in pain creating
Woman who just lies there waiting and the father
He hasn't been born yet, he hasn't been born yet
You may drift there if you want to, luggage fits inside your pocket like a bill
And keep remembering, mother screaming lost her way
Woman screaming she won't stay and your father, hasn't been born yet
All has been forgotten and the plastic turns to rotten
Rays and smells
While pointing to the deathly beautiful
Mother who in pain creating
Woman who just lies there waiting and the father
He hasn't been born yet, he hasn't been born yet
He hasn't been born yet, he hasn't been born yet
He hasn't been born yet
All has been forgotten and the plastic turns to rotten
Rays and smells
While pointing to the deathly beautiful
Mother who in pain creating
Woman who just lies there waiting and the father
He hasn't been born yet, he hasn't been born yet
He hasn't been born yet, he hasn't been born yet
All has been forgotten and the plastic turns to rotten
Rays and smells
While pointing to the deathly beautiful
Mother who in pain creating
Woman who just lies there waiting and the father
He hasn't been born yet
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Father Cannot Yell [Remastered] Lyrics as written by Irmin Schmidt Holger Schuering
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1969! Are you kidding me? Listen to anything that came out of 1969 and you will only find one band that was even close, the Velvet Underground. Of course you have no idea what this song means! Go back to your over-affluent life of HD tvs in the subburbs of the USA. You are not ready for reality.
This is music of struggle. In a country that wanted nothing more than to see there own people tin the East see freedom. What do you know except Krispy Cream, man? What do you know except what the Kardashians are doing, you ignorant, fuck! Learn and stop talking, fool. Learn, and stop talking, fool. Learn, and stop talking, fool. Learn, and stop talking fool. Learn, and stop talking, fool. Learn, and stop talking, fool. Learn, and stop talking, fool.
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