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.
Well get away, get away turn your head and say that
I am not enough for you
Well I don't mind, I don't mind cause it's mine for
A while so what you think you're gonna do?
Why can't I fear what I feel, what I feel
When I'm down looking back at you?
Why can't I fear what I feel, what I feel
When I'm down looking back at you?
Look to the sky yeah the sky cause it's so damn high
Let it fly, don't land it in my eye
Look to the sun, yeah the sun it's a gun
A disease, [one of these?]
And bring you to your knees
Why can't I fear what I feel, what I feel
When I'm down looking back at you?
Why can't I fear what I feel, what I feel
When I'm down looking back at you?
Don't matter anyway - 'cause all I've got to say
Kill the flies, kill the flies, kill the flies, yeah yeah
Kill the flies, yeah, yeah
Someday, sometime
I'm gonna find out just what it is when you looked at me
Kill the files, kill the flies
'Cause they're stupid whores
And I keep on coming back for more
Why can't I fear what I feel, yeah I feel
When I'm down looking back at you?
Why can't I fear what I feel, yeah I feel
Yeah I'm here looking back at you
Don't matter anyway - 'cause all I've got to say
Kill the flies, kill the flies, kill the flies
Yeah yeah, kill the flies, yeah, yeah
Why can't I fear what I feel, what I feel
When I'm down looking back at you?
Why can't I fear what I feel, yeah I feel
When I'm down looking back at you, yeah
I am not enough for you
Well I don't mind, I don't mind cause it's mine for
A while so what you think you're gonna do?
Why can't I fear what I feel, what I feel
When I'm down looking back at you?
Why can't I fear what I feel, what I feel
When I'm down looking back at you?
Look to the sky yeah the sky cause it's so damn high
Let it fly, don't land it in my eye
Look to the sun, yeah the sun it's a gun
A disease, [one of these?]
And bring you to your knees
Why can't I fear what I feel, what I feel
When I'm down looking back at you?
Why can't I fear what I feel, what I feel
When I'm down looking back at you?
Don't matter anyway - 'cause all I've got to say
Kill the flies, kill the flies, kill the flies, yeah yeah
Kill the flies, yeah, yeah
Someday, sometime
I'm gonna find out just what it is when you looked at me
Kill the files, kill the flies
'Cause they're stupid whores
And I keep on coming back for more
Why can't I fear what I feel, yeah I feel
When I'm down looking back at you?
Why can't I fear what I feel, yeah I feel
Yeah I'm here looking back at you
Don't matter anyway - 'cause all I've got to say
Kill the flies, kill the flies, kill the flies
Yeah yeah, kill the flies, yeah, yeah
Why can't I fear what I feel, what I feel
When I'm down looking back at you?
Why can't I fear what I feel, yeah I feel
When I'm down looking back at you, yeah
Lyrics submitted by Feenix
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