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.
There's a dirty sock in my hair
And I don't remember putting it there
Next to sweat silhouettes on the floor
That I'm not quite prepared to endorse
I was having this dream
We were down in a deep ravine
With slimy slippery sides
No, I won't sit still till I'm upside down
In the back of your eyes
We can take off into the breeze
Through the forest of family trees
And be a mutual sight for sore eyes
We can ride off into the sunrise
And wake up in the afternoon
Back on the birthplace of the moon
Till we're off to the too and fro
For some old man that we don't even know...
Only eight more hours to go
Oh, the world feels colder today
I don't care what the scientists say
There's a campfire built in my heart
That even the sun couldn't start
On our climb uphill
Into the oil spill
Through the vast asbestos skies
No, I won't sit still till I'm upside down
In the back of your eyes
Nevermind all the nuclear missiles
Leave that up to important officials
Who can manufacture the press and
Keep the peasants on anti-depressants
Should they send their rockets a flyin'
That's one unique way to exit the world
And if we're curled up into a little ball
Behind some thick lead walls
We should be fine if we can survive
The giant spiders!!!
No, I won't sit still till I'm upside down
In the back of your eyes
No, I won't sit still till I'm upside down
In the back of your eyes
No, I won't sit still till I'm upside down
In the back of your eyes
No, I won't sit still till I'm upside down
In the back of your eyes!
Lonely people of the world, unite!
And I don't remember putting it there
Next to sweat silhouettes on the floor
That I'm not quite prepared to endorse
I was having this dream
We were down in a deep ravine
With slimy slippery sides
No, I won't sit still till I'm upside down
In the back of your eyes
We can take off into the breeze
Through the forest of family trees
And be a mutual sight for sore eyes
We can ride off into the sunrise
And wake up in the afternoon
Back on the birthplace of the moon
Till we're off to the too and fro
For some old man that we don't even know...
Only eight more hours to go
Oh, the world feels colder today
I don't care what the scientists say
There's a campfire built in my heart
That even the sun couldn't start
On our climb uphill
Into the oil spill
Through the vast asbestos skies
No, I won't sit still till I'm upside down
In the back of your eyes
Nevermind all the nuclear missiles
Leave that up to important officials
Who can manufacture the press and
Keep the peasants on anti-depressants
Should they send their rockets a flyin'
That's one unique way to exit the world
And if we're curled up into a little ball
Behind some thick lead walls
We should be fine if we can survive
The giant spiders!!!
No, I won't sit still till I'm upside down
In the back of your eyes
No, I won't sit still till I'm upside down
In the back of your eyes
No, I won't sit still till I'm upside down
In the back of your eyes
No, I won't sit still till I'm upside down
In the back of your eyes!
Lonely people of the world, unite!
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