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.
slid back and watched the year turn sat still walked through what i learned jerked tears then grined to cheeks and yearned for what had been lost and what had been found tables turn when knocked down let's stand them upright and follow our sights to where we belong slid back and watched the year turn sat still walked through what i learned jerked tears then grined to cheeks and yearned i yearned can't think of turning back clocks can't run for what has been lost and we can't sulk in what once drowned us because we will drown again and cease to win the constant battles that we wake up with now stronger and warned we should live without scorn and renew what we can no year could cut us like that one is we don't sit and drown in wonder time passed we failed we crashed but who is to say we can't start over start now start right stay tight and we can live side by side
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why have no-one commented on this song its amazing! shai hulud do a really good cover of this song as well..this song means a lot to me..i was at a really hard time in my life (after a break up - emo boy jokes welcome) but this helped me through and i basically thought fuck you! everyone can start over..everybody has and deserves a second chance..with the whole war thiing going on it really makes you think..okay im done now
Whoa I didn't now Shai Hulud covered this.. I'll have to check that out.
this song has an intriguing mystery.. and i would love to know what exactly it means.. so TELL ME! hehe
From the Live at the Hardback booklet:
I see this song as a story of crucial turning point in two peoples lives. Two people who found a peace through love they thought they would never know, and learned how to keep it. One cold New Years Eve in Richmond, I realized exactly where I was, where I have been, and where I belonged. She wasn't around but I knew she felt the same. Though we had split and frayed the blessed romance tike and time again, it seemed like it had never really ended. So, from the rooftops then, to the rooftops now we've seen why we're still here and who we're both about. It's been three and a half years since I fell, watching her play solo through the window in alley of the Hardback. The same place I found myself, later, writing down the words to this song. Now like the color of the light on her dress then, I'm still on fire.
Does any one know where i could DL the Shai Hulud version...i cant find it ANY WHERE...and im DYING to hear it!!!
Thanx
is this song about someone who is manic depressive? smiling one time and crying the other.
This song, like many HWM songs is about strength in the face of adversity, and pain. Always keeping an optimistic eye on the future and accepting the troubles of the past as things that can not be changed, only learned from.
the song "a cold night in virgina" by the blacktop cadence is sort of about the same night/ feeling. interesting to listen to them both.
i really think its "choked tears" then grinned to cheeks and yearned