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.
every night stopping
it's raining
scary oh
so rage you again
your
on fire
i one decide to run out
oh they got off you did
wonder where you say you knew
sugar ain't poison
but sugar will kill you
it's too much of a good thing
maybe not so
i wasn't somebody
no hand out
i give you
i stare back and
gonna let you out
i wonder what you
all of sad you knew
sugar ain't poison
but sugar will kill you
too much of a good thing
maybe not so
you did what you thought was fitting baby
dreams about oh what is sunning you
oh baby
i hung up my package
never no never you knew
sugar ain't poison
but sugar will kill you
too much of a good thing
maybe not so sweet
it's raining
scary oh
so rage you again
your
on fire
i one decide to run out
oh they got off you did
wonder where you say you knew
sugar ain't poison
but sugar will kill you
it's too much of a good thing
maybe not so
i wasn't somebody
no hand out
i give you
i stare back and
gonna let you out
i wonder what you
all of sad you knew
sugar ain't poison
but sugar will kill you
too much of a good thing
maybe not so
you did what you thought was fitting baby
dreams about oh what is sunning you
oh baby
i hung up my package
never no never you knew
sugar ain't poison
but sugar will kill you
too much of a good thing
maybe not so sweet
Lyrics submitted by jfleming40
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Here are the lyrics as best as i could get from the Golden Gate Park Concert cd with Santana:
so what is it? in the middle of this came in to save us oh red was staining and covering, oh I wonder called all this for myself wonder if you knew
sugar ain't poison but sugar will kill you too much of a good thing maybe not so sweet
what do you think about that?
I came in, maybe, bit too late and stinking, you said of something holy and either way to solve this, really matters oh drumming out try to find for myself whatever come rain empty space, I fell for myself I wonder if you knew
sugar ain't poison but sugar will kill you too much of a good thing maybe not so sweet
what do you know about that?
And all of a sudden you were screaming came scratching in, love, all of these Oh, I thought, must be dreaming it's not like you but oh then I've done it all by myself still it seems surprising, oh then broke the wall by myself still wonder how you knew
sugar ain't poison but sugar will kill you too much of a good thing maybe not so sweet
I think it has to do with relationships. Too much of a good thing maybe not so sweet is realizing that what he thought would make him happy (or make the other person happy) is really not what that person needed.