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.
(Performed by Snot)
Well now it seems more than silence has been broken
And I think I've figured out the the dying lie
Yes, the truth is that your dialect is half-truth
Another conversation's died alone
This is something we've created
Yes, the sufferment's abated
It doesn't have to be a prophecy
We could be both seeking destiny
It's fucking down to us and them
You can decide the side one wins
Well now's the time, are you the hunter or the hunted?
Hunted
Absent - Sometimes I feel like it's us against them
Absent - Sometimes I feel like their angers are justified
If it feels like I'm absent
From your conversation
Just keep on talking and you could find out
Now it seems that there are no easy answers
To the same old questions I've imposed
What does it mean? Why would you bother asking me?
Like it's something I should know
Just 'cause they paid me to take it
I guess their money gave me credence
Watch our records soar
As you slow down to buy the accident SO SICK!
Absent - Sometimes I feel like it's us against them
Absent - ???
If it seems like I'm absent
From your conversation
Just keep on talking and you just might find
You're probably right
Know that I'll pull your covers, bitch
Yes well I'm fittin' to knock that ego down
Well I might slap ya punk ass to the floor
Stupid motherfucker, nothin' but a buster
Still talkin' shit!
Devoid of soul, so ya dig yourself a hole
???
Take the fun out, I load the gun for you
Incorrect, cause and effect, you've been sold
??? ... fuck with my life
Live in the wrong, so ya live in the lies
Take the fun, load the gun, incorrect, cause and effect, I'm
Absent
Sometimes you feel like it's us against them
Absent - ???
If it seems like I'm absent
From your conversation
Just keep on talkin' and you might find out
You're probably right
I - don't - care
Yes, yes, you're probably right
I - don't - care
Don'tcha know, feel that you're probably right
I - don't - care
Yes, yes, you're probably right
I - don't - care
Yes, yes, you're probably right
I
Don't care
Well now it seems more than silence has been broken
And I think I've figured out the the dying lie
Yes, the truth is that your dialect is half-truth
Another conversation's died alone
This is something we've created
Yes, the sufferment's abated
It doesn't have to be a prophecy
We could be both seeking destiny
It's fucking down to us and them
You can decide the side one wins
Well now's the time, are you the hunter or the hunted?
Hunted
Absent - Sometimes I feel like it's us against them
Absent - Sometimes I feel like their angers are justified
If it feels like I'm absent
From your conversation
Just keep on talking and you could find out
Now it seems that there are no easy answers
To the same old questions I've imposed
What does it mean? Why would you bother asking me?
Like it's something I should know
Just 'cause they paid me to take it
I guess their money gave me credence
Watch our records soar
As you slow down to buy the accident SO SICK!
Absent - Sometimes I feel like it's us against them
Absent - ???
If it seems like I'm absent
From your conversation
Just keep on talking and you just might find
You're probably right
Know that I'll pull your covers, bitch
Yes well I'm fittin' to knock that ego down
Well I might slap ya punk ass to the floor
Stupid motherfucker, nothin' but a buster
Still talkin' shit!
Devoid of soul, so ya dig yourself a hole
???
Take the fun out, I load the gun for you
Incorrect, cause and effect, you've been sold
??? ... fuck with my life
Live in the wrong, so ya live in the lies
Take the fun, load the gun, incorrect, cause and effect, I'm
Absent
Sometimes you feel like it's us against them
Absent - ???
If it seems like I'm absent
From your conversation
Just keep on talkin' and you might find out
You're probably right
I - don't - care
Yes, yes, you're probably right
I - don't - care
Don'tcha know, feel that you're probably right
I - don't - care
Yes, yes, you're probably right
I - don't - care
Yes, yes, you're probably right
I
Don't care
Lyrics submitted by zztzed
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I think in this song, at the beginning its like talking about people saying something to your face, and then talking shit behind you. This is something that the human race in all has created. Kind of like all of us are blind, and sometimes it really gets to you, racism, hatred, and it feels like our angers are REALLY justified of why their supposed to be there, but in the truth they aren't. At the end I think their saying, you have no soul, and the more you talk you just keep digging a bigger hole for yourself. Soon, he's going to come for you, pulling the covers you have over your eyes, and telling you "how it is."
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RIP Lynn