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.
When your heart breaks you, when the lies shine through, when your father finds you sleeping in the rain like you do, do you let out a last breath?
Do you give it the college try or do you just slump to one side?
When you twist what’s true and the fingers point at you, when the bottom drops out on everything you knew and your youth what do you do?
Do you intend to help me get back home or will you leave me stranded?
I’m on to you. The strings are shown, the mirrors fog, the belt in its groove will slip out.
When your heart breaks you, when the lies shine through, when your father finds you sleeping in the rain like you do, do you let out a last breath?
Do you give it the college try or do you just slump to one side?
And so you drop out of school and still you make excuses for the time and what you find.
Do you intend to help me get back home or will you leave me stranded? I’m on to you. The strings are shown, the mirrors fog, the belt in its groove will slip out.
Little by little you’ve drifted towards something you don’t understand and now you look at him and remember when you’d collapse into his arms.
Do you give it the college try or do you just slump to one side?
When you twist what’s true and the fingers point at you, when the bottom drops out on everything you knew and your youth what do you do?
Do you intend to help me get back home or will you leave me stranded?
I’m on to you. The strings are shown, the mirrors fog, the belt in its groove will slip out.
When your heart breaks you, when the lies shine through, when your father finds you sleeping in the rain like you do, do you let out a last breath?
Do you give it the college try or do you just slump to one side?
And so you drop out of school and still you make excuses for the time and what you find.
Do you intend to help me get back home or will you leave me stranded? I’m on to you. The strings are shown, the mirrors fog, the belt in its groove will slip out.
Little by little you’ve drifted towards something you don’t understand and now you look at him and remember when you’d collapse into his arms.
Lyrics submitted by beautifuldecay
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I get a feeling the song is about family. The last line "Little by little you’ve drifted towards something you don’t understand and now you look at him and remember when you’d collapse into his arms." is so devastating.