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.
It started off alright
We'd go out Friday night
And have a drink and do whatever made us feel alright
We'd stay out all weekend
Try taking everything
But never hurt no-one and so what
You only live once - I thought
'Til I got caught
That weren't enough for you
You'd go out Monday too
And Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 'till it all caught up with you
You're everyone's best friend
'Long as they've got something
I did not know you no more
Heartbreak - a sickness I can't see
Oh-no-no-no-no-no-no
Feltham is singing out
Feltham is singing out
Tonight a light's gone out
21 years old and out
Feltham is singing out
We all went out one night
You got us in a fight
You owed some money
To a monkey who had seen you right
You sold your furniture
So you could pay him off
They cut the power
Can't afford it you slept on the floor
You can't hold down a job
So then you had to rob
First from your mom and then your friends and then the local shop
But as a criminal
You're just no good at all
You got your collar felt
So dumb, you thought about skipping bail
Now you're in jail
Feltham is singing out
Feltham is singing out
Tonight a light's gone out
21 years old and out
Feltham is singing out
You don't like prison life
You loved to watch the sky
And you get beat and injured
End up throwing up all night
You could not take no more
So when they closed the door
Tied up your sheets - strang yourself up
And then you were no more, no more
Every day I,I,I see your face
As I walk on by past that awful place
23 hours in a cell
Each and every day just locked up living hell, living hell, living hell
Feltham is singing out
Feltham is singing out
Feltham is singing out
We'd go out Friday night
And have a drink and do whatever made us feel alright
We'd stay out all weekend
Try taking everything
But never hurt no-one and so what
You only live once - I thought
'Til I got caught
That weren't enough for you
You'd go out Monday too
And Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 'till it all caught up with you
You're everyone's best friend
'Long as they've got something
I did not know you no more
Heartbreak - a sickness I can't see
Oh-no-no-no-no-no-no
Feltham is singing out
Feltham is singing out
Tonight a light's gone out
21 years old and out
Feltham is singing out
We all went out one night
You got us in a fight
You owed some money
To a monkey who had seen you right
You sold your furniture
So you could pay him off
They cut the power
Can't afford it you slept on the floor
You can't hold down a job
So then you had to rob
First from your mom and then your friends and then the local shop
But as a criminal
You're just no good at all
You got your collar felt
So dumb, you thought about skipping bail
Now you're in jail
Feltham is singing out
Feltham is singing out
Tonight a light's gone out
21 years old and out
Feltham is singing out
You don't like prison life
You loved to watch the sky
And you get beat and injured
End up throwing up all night
You could not take no more
So when they closed the door
Tied up your sheets - strang yourself up
And then you were no more, no more
Every day I,I,I see your face
As I walk on by past that awful place
23 hours in a cell
Each and every day just locked up living hell, living hell, living hell
Feltham is singing out
Feltham is singing out
Feltham is singing out
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Feltham Is Singing Out Lyrics as written by Richard Archer
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