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.
I saw you burning in a scarlet light
Just like a pantheon of comets in flight
Time, a place, a face no matter now
Now listen to an idiot chatter
Whoaoaoaoao
Truth be told you're at least half gold
I love you like a dog loves to run and ramble
Make the brook babble let the bell ring
Don't let the action of factual things fracture your casual swing
You are the sun and that's law
I got a mouth like a donkey chewing on straw
Calling all stones, calling all streams, one piece many parts undivided in a dream
Move it out now, step into the heat
This will be the era where the people truth seek
Small pebble, some small stone
No place to call your own
Walk out to the dock
Just to watch a wave roll
Soul rebel, a passion unknown
Don't let your dreams go cold
You've got to swing from the shoulder
Swing from the shoulder of your soul
This is what I'm talking about...
Every processed thing's got an expiration date
so process everything and you had better speculate.
This is for the ghouls, kick the doors off the tomb
We are young forever that is written on the moon.
Whooooaoaoaoa that's how it flows.
It's a rough diamond, supreme romance
No circumstance will ever stop this dance.
Move it out now, step into the heat
This will be the era where the people truth seek
Chorus
Rise from the corners, rise from the folds
Move in the places that are brittle from the cold
Sleepless searchers turning in the eves
Burdened with the vision of a world retrieved
Peace manifest unity unity
Born of positive c-h-a-n-g-e
Speak, I'm weak I need your power and your heat
Looking for substance in a world of techniques
Chorus
Just like a pantheon of comets in flight
Time, a place, a face no matter now
Now listen to an idiot chatter
Whoaoaoaoao
Truth be told you're at least half gold
I love you like a dog loves to run and ramble
Make the brook babble let the bell ring
Don't let the action of factual things fracture your casual swing
You are the sun and that's law
I got a mouth like a donkey chewing on straw
Calling all stones, calling all streams, one piece many parts undivided in a dream
Move it out now, step into the heat
This will be the era where the people truth seek
Small pebble, some small stone
No place to call your own
Walk out to the dock
Just to watch a wave roll
Soul rebel, a passion unknown
Don't let your dreams go cold
You've got to swing from the shoulder
Swing from the shoulder of your soul
This is what I'm talking about...
Every processed thing's got an expiration date
so process everything and you had better speculate.
This is for the ghouls, kick the doors off the tomb
We are young forever that is written on the moon.
Whooooaoaoaoa that's how it flows.
It's a rough diamond, supreme romance
No circumstance will ever stop this dance.
Move it out now, step into the heat
This will be the era where the people truth seek
Chorus
Rise from the corners, rise from the folds
Move in the places that are brittle from the cold
Sleepless searchers turning in the eves
Burdened with the vision of a world retrieved
Peace manifest unity unity
Born of positive c-h-a-n-g-e
Speak, I'm weak I need your power and your heat
Looking for substance in a world of techniques
Chorus
Lyrics submitted by Big_Olmec
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