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.
And we'll keep ourselves in a place where it's easy to hold onto.
The last threats came and went, this is the way that wars are played.
Always heading for a front, heading for a front,
We go into the obscurity of an easy to pass on feeling that objection is so cliche.
A new way on
A new way on
A new way on
A new way on
So can your pop sensibilities sing me the end of the world?
Turn gunshots and mortar blasts into a metaphor of how we are all the same.
Well there's a lot of things that should be said, so we're hammering six strings,
Machine gun in audible voices, this is the party we came for.
A new way on
A new way on
A new way on
A new way
We stand in amazement of motion in a world that is constantly revolving.
With plans of invasion and arms races racing we rock to the new sensation.
A new way on
A new way on
A new way on
A new way
The last threats came and went, this is the way that wars are played.
Always heading for a front, heading for a front,
We go into the obscurity of an easy to pass on feeling that objection is so cliche.
A new way on
A new way on
A new way on
A new way on
So can your pop sensibilities sing me the end of the world?
Turn gunshots and mortar blasts into a metaphor of how we are all the same.
Well there's a lot of things that should be said, so we're hammering six strings,
Machine gun in audible voices, this is the party we came for.
A new way on
A new way on
A new way on
A new way
We stand in amazement of motion in a world that is constantly revolving.
With plans of invasion and arms races racing we rock to the new sensation.
A new way on
A new way on
A new way on
A new way
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I reckons that this be aboot how the new shitty pop-punk bands have tried to show everyone (that watches MTV) how rebellious they are, and how it's so easy now to say that you're an Anarchist, or a non-conformist, without actually being it or feeling it: it's become trendy to be a 'punk' (in the twisted new sense of the word).
On the other hand, there be bands like Against Me! and the whole indie old-school style bands who aren't in it for the money (yet) are just giving a statement in music form.