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.
Satan's wrath is the only choice
His stillborn army is impeccable
Modern day plague
Stronger than any and every virus, disease or sickness
For a glimpse of ideology
Anti-christian and eternally alive
Or dead
Buried underneath two thousand years
Of histories
Yet able to rise
Instinctively arise
Avoid the light
The sun's in sight
The undead should be sleeping
Avoid the light
And cross upright
My fledgling's dropping, weeping
Avoid the light
Avert your sight
Go underground discretely
Avoid the light
Avoid the light
Avoid the light
Avoid the light
True and purely horror
Man's ultimate enemy and predator wrapped into one
Spread black wings
Of damnated
Then folding into
Shape a mortal men
Not slaved
Plasmicumber
Will over-ride
The true emotion
That peering virgin
To guard my callussed grave
Avoid the light
The sun's in sight
The undead should be sleeping
Avoid the light
And cross upright
My fledgling's dropping, weeping
Avoid the light
Avert your sight
Go underground discretely
Alone, unseen
Reborn, received
It's a battle of wills
Ingloriously killed
We shall devour
Avoid the light
The sun's in sight
The undead should be sleeping
Avoid the light
And cross upright
My fledgling's dropping, weeping
Avoid the light
Avert your sight
Go underground discretely
Avoid the light
Avoid the light
Avoid the light
Avoid the light
Satan's wrath is the only choice
His stillborn army is impeccable
His stillborn army is impeccable
Modern day plague
Stronger than any and every virus, disease or sickness
For a glimpse of ideology
Anti-christian and eternally alive
Or dead
Buried underneath two thousand years
Of histories
Yet able to rise
Instinctively arise
Avoid the light
The sun's in sight
The undead should be sleeping
Avoid the light
And cross upright
My fledgling's dropping, weeping
Avoid the light
Avert your sight
Go underground discretely
Avoid the light
Avoid the light
Avoid the light
Avoid the light
True and purely horror
Man's ultimate enemy and predator wrapped into one
Spread black wings
Of damnated
Then folding into
Shape a mortal men
Not slaved
Plasmicumber
Will over-ride
The true emotion
That peering virgin
To guard my callussed grave
Avoid the light
The sun's in sight
The undead should be sleeping
Avoid the light
And cross upright
My fledgling's dropping, weeping
Avoid the light
Avert your sight
Go underground discretely
Alone, unseen
Reborn, received
It's a battle of wills
Ingloriously killed
We shall devour
Avoid the light
The sun's in sight
The undead should be sleeping
Avoid the light
And cross upright
My fledgling's dropping, weeping
Avoid the light
Avert your sight
Go underground discretely
Avoid the light
Avoid the light
Avoid the light
Avoid the light
Satan's wrath is the only choice
His stillborn army is impeccable
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