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.
Gently my mind escapes into the relaxing world of pleasure
A pleasure that'll take my mind off the reality of my life
My past life
Life as I know it know
And whatever may come, it slowly disappears
To somewhere in the back of my mind
It will remain there until I wish to retrieve it
Yes I will stay here for a while for I need the break
A break from the pressures of life
And everything that lay in the palm of life's hands, life's hands
This mode is incredible
It's out of this world
Too bad I must always leave it
But that's life
That's life (yeah)
That's life (yeah)
That's life (yeah)
Yes, yes, yes, yes, oh yes
A pleasure that'll take my mind off the reality of my life
My past life
Life as I know it know
And whatever may come, it slowly disappears
To somewhere in the back of my mind
It will remain there until I wish to retrieve it
Yes I will stay here for a while for I need the break
A break from the pressures of life
And everything that lay in the palm of life's hands, life's hands
This mode is incredible
It's out of this world
Too bad I must always leave it
But that's life
That's life (yeah)
That's life (yeah)
That's life (yeah)
Yes, yes, yes, yes, oh yes
Lyrics submitted by Pharmaecopia
Gently Lyrics as written by Christopher Fehn Michael Shawn Crahan
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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