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.
She thinks we're done
Picture her voice calling the boys
But I've waited too long
She's moved across town
And the new one she's found
Is not around
Pictures I took in that book
I first showed you the night we met
They'd make me great if you'd just wait
But our last fight rings on
I was wrong you deserve all the press you get
I couldn't stand being unmanned
I guess that how I saw my gradual fall
With your talent and all
I was wrong
I know I'll be just fine and now I've got all this time
Honey, maybe I could see you
After Christmas got things to give you
Then I'm headed South gonna photograph the land
Where I stand in a sizing to bigger things
What winter wants it takes for months
But I'm too cold to bear sleeping there
In the house that the navy built
Shots of Dad's bridge still on the fridge
But we've poisoned it all and cried out of the hall
I'm done once and for all
I was wrong
I guess we're done
Picture her voice calling the boys
But I've waited too long
She's moved across town
And the new one she's found
Is not around
Pictures I took in that book
I first showed you the night we met
They'd make me great if you'd just wait
But our last fight rings on
I was wrong you deserve all the press you get
I couldn't stand being unmanned
I guess that how I saw my gradual fall
With your talent and all
I was wrong
I know I'll be just fine and now I've got all this time
Honey, maybe I could see you
After Christmas got things to give you
Then I'm headed South gonna photograph the land
Where I stand in a sizing to bigger things
What winter wants it takes for months
But I'm too cold to bear sleeping there
In the house that the navy built
Shots of Dad's bridge still on the fridge
But we've poisoned it all and cried out of the hall
I'm done once and for all
I was wrong
I guess we're done
Lyrics submitted by IamScared
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