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.
Forced, we forced feeding you lines, feeding you.
Look how high I'm jumping from, you'll never make it.
I know what it feels like
giving into something you don't understand
Forced, we forced feeding you lines, feeding you.
Look how high I'm jumping from, you'll never make it.
Walk into the light,
giving into something you don't understand.
This sort of thing gets you out of mind right before...
This sort of thing gets you out of mind right before impact.
Calcium waste, glitter and falling like icicles.
Calcium waste, glitter and falling like icicles.
Guess who's next?
You're just as guilty as them.
Forced, we forced feeding you lines, feeding you.
Look how high I'm jumping from, you'll never make it.
This sort of thing gets you out of mind right before...
This sort of thing gets you out of mind right before impact.
Look how high I'm jumping from, you'll never make it.
I know what it feels like
giving into something you don't understand
Forced, we forced feeding you lines, feeding you.
Look how high I'm jumping from, you'll never make it.
Walk into the light,
giving into something you don't understand.
This sort of thing gets you out of mind right before...
This sort of thing gets you out of mind right before impact.
Calcium waste, glitter and falling like icicles.
Calcium waste, glitter and falling like icicles.
Guess who's next?
You're just as guilty as them.
Forced, we forced feeding you lines, feeding you.
Look how high I'm jumping from, you'll never make it.
This sort of thing gets you out of mind right before...
This sort of thing gets you out of mind right before impact.
Lyrics submitted by Shout4shoutsake
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incorrect its forced we forced feeding you lines look how high im jumping from you you'll never make it
and instead of calmium ray glitter and falling like icicles calcium rays, glitter and falling like icicles
it is calcium waste litter and falling like icicles (x2)
the rest is correct but the first one is repeated throughout pls change
-xcamx
what's this song about? drugs? i have no idea
i think this song is more about suicide. "look how high im juping from. youll never make it." and "This sort of thing get you out of mind right before IMPACT" and "calcium waste, litter and falling like icicles" to me that represents humans. calcium in reference to bones. its like humans falling from the sky like icicles. a lot does go back to drugs like "forced feeding you lines" like line of coke or whatever. maybe thats why suicide was thought of here. i dont really know what anthony meant by this song..but thats what i got out of it.
TOTALLY agree
i lied i agree with the coke shit and saosin's past with him lol
I think he's talking about how superior his mind is the average person. The impact thing is just the come down from a heavy psychedelic or something.<br /> <br /> "Giving into something you don't understand."<br /> <br /> ^^^ That could be like tripping for the first time. You think you have an understanding of what your trip is going to be like but when one actually does trip it's so overwhelming. I don't think it's about cocaine though. at all. I think everyone else is feeding us lines about useless shit that we live our life off of every day when it's all just biological tricks set up to keep our species perpetuating. let's say that you could fly. If you could fly over all the beautiful country sides and see all the beauty in earth. all the natural lakes, oceans, rivers, mountains, et cetera. And then if you fly over the cities and you just really think about what it is, it looks like a growth. like mold taking over a sandwich. you don't look at ever individual spore, or bacterium and every job it has. you look at a fucking pile of mold. you can look at big cities the exact same way. Humans think that we're some significant thing, but we're not. at all.
i think he was dancing around the phrase "force feeding."<br /> it probably is about suicide.<br /> <br /> <br /> "Humans think that we're some significant thing, but we're not. at all."<br /> that's so awesome. :)<br /> i don't value life in a way that it is significant,<br /> it's just breathing, and waiting until your next life.<br /> tripping made me feel insignificant,<br /> when i think of all of the infinite space..<br /> fuck being remembered umongst the people here.<br /> what's that going to matter to the galaxy when our planet's destroyed?<br /> nothing, because they're just wondering if we're here as we do about them.
I am almost positive this song is about cocaine addiction. I think it's about how no one is safe from the temptation. i highly doubt it's about suicide because i don't think anthony green writes anything as bluntly as some of you are suggesting.
He also said it was partly about him leaving Saosin.
this has got to be about drugs, specifically cocaine addiction. the getting out of a difficult situation, but being scared to do it connects with leaving saosin and cocaine addiction. they are both difficult situations.
"look how high im jumping from" could connect to how high he would get . . . cocaine, or to mention how touchy or difficult his situation is.
if im not mistaken calcium is in your blood also. . . and calcium waste glitter and falling like icicles...NOSEBLEED. thats what i think at least. you also get nosebleeds from cocaine which could explain that this is about addiction to that drug
o and lastly "i know what it feels like giving into something you dont understand" also connects to drug addiction. he could be saying he knows what it feels like to have something controlling you and having to give in to addiction that you cant help. or understand
I have no idea what this song is about but I freaking love it !!
coke
blow
the glorious noesbleed