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.
we're keeping up the fiction and breaking all the mirrors. we're bringing our own troubles by neglecting the cracks we walk on. the daystar is burning in this black cofin we move in. we tried to make it work out hundreds of miles apart. hyou are the luckiest symbol i've ever found and i'm a world away. we are the final students in the dying art of lost astrology. you are the brightest single shining star i saw from miles away. it's superstitious but i keep on wishing on all the falling stars on hold for me. you keep on pulling and causing tension but you're the magnet. if we never find the way home i'd be more than lost without you and to all the skeptic onlookers we should have never made it this far.
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Superstitions in Travel Lyrics as written by Mobley Kevin
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I think this song is abut how it's a troubled, either friendship or relationship, that isn't working. He talks about how there is still a hint of light even though they are getting closer and closer to "this black coffin" (the death of 'them'). Then he starts to say how it's the other person who is causing all this trouble, but no matter what, he would "be more than lost" without them. And that no matter what he will keep on wishing for things to get better, even though they don't seem to be. That's just me though. Great song, I am in love with it.
me too. littlelostemoboy takes the words out of my mouth. im going to have to start biting. no im not homosexual, and no im not homophobic. leave me alone. put your pants back on.
It's about realizing that a long-distance relationship isn't working out, even though it's seemed fine for so long.
:( god this song is so sad
Yeah, but still kind of happy. It's not like anybody got hurt...they just kind of drifted away from each other. A slow kind of a growing apart thing.
And Elliott have the best bass lines since The Pixies.
Damn...I was wrong. It is sad. Incredibly depressing when you really think about it. They were perfect for each other, madly in love, but that love has just faded away. Kind of makes me want to die...slowly building apathy is worse than any sort of active problem which might have pushed them apart.
it's beautiful.
Heh...yeah, I think everyone agrees on that point.
this is a great song that i liked originally for the sound, then the lyrics just seemed so futiley hopeful, like the kind of faith you keep when you don.t want to let go and you just convince yourself it.s right. it.s tragic, really, but applies in all ways. great song.
the sound, his voice, amazing.......