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.
Will these dreams still follow me
Out of dark obscurity?
Can't you see it up in the sky
As it kicks you in the face and sucks you dry
You never had the answers
And now you tell me the facts of life
I really couldn't be bothered with you
Get out of my face and watch me die
Burning inside! burning inside!
Absolution and a frozen room
Are the dreams of men below
I try to grab it but the touch is hot
The mirror collapses, but the image came not
I'm scared of the darkness in the light
I scare myself because I know I'm right
I see the evil in your savage eye
As it cuts right through the sky
Burning inside! burning inside!
Calling a mantra with a blade in the skin
For the demons within
I feel the pain is the death and decay
But the lesson never fades away
Two little shadows, turning away
You saw the man through the window pane
Another slave and a victim of fate
Another lesson in hate
Burning inside! burning inside!
Out of dark obscurity?
Can't you see it up in the sky
As it kicks you in the face and sucks you dry
You never had the answers
And now you tell me the facts of life
I really couldn't be bothered with you
Get out of my face and watch me die
Burning inside! burning inside!
Absolution and a frozen room
Are the dreams of men below
I try to grab it but the touch is hot
The mirror collapses, but the image came not
I'm scared of the darkness in the light
I scare myself because I know I'm right
I see the evil in your savage eye
As it cuts right through the sky
Burning inside! burning inside!
Calling a mantra with a blade in the skin
For the demons within
I feel the pain is the death and decay
But the lesson never fades away
Two little shadows, turning away
You saw the man through the window pane
Another slave and a victim of fate
Another lesson in hate
Burning inside! burning inside!
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Burning Inside Lyrics as written by Alien Jourgensen Al Jourgensen
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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this song rocks hard