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.
I was walking through San Antonio before sound check
I was looking for some pole to do pull-ups on
I'd like to talk much longer
But I'm on somebody else's cell phone's time
Why we still sleep if Carolina was our
Wake up call, our almost done
I'll tell it to you like I got it in my mind
I'm fucking cold like a DQ blizzard
You act like a slut but you're really a freezer
We love and hate like the tatooed fist
And all these songs are sung on road trips
One night when I was walking home from your house
I kept smelling some sort of blown out candles
And the monterey birches were bare
Raising their skinny arms to the stars in surrender
We have to change if we're going to stay together
'Cause I say rain when it's only a drizzle
You get stoned like death in the bible
"She ain't gonna call 2" didn't make my list
But all the rest we sing on
And all the rest we sing on
And all these songs are song on road trips
And the monterey birches were bare
Raising their skinny arms to the stars in surrender
I was looking for some pole to do pull-ups on
I'd like to talk much longer
But I'm on somebody else's cell phone's time
Why we still sleep if Carolina was our
Wake up call, our almost done
I'll tell it to you like I got it in my mind
I'm fucking cold like a DQ blizzard
You act like a slut but you're really a freezer
We love and hate like the tatooed fist
And all these songs are sung on road trips
One night when I was walking home from your house
I kept smelling some sort of blown out candles
And the monterey birches were bare
Raising their skinny arms to the stars in surrender
We have to change if we're going to stay together
'Cause I say rain when it's only a drizzle
You get stoned like death in the bible
"She ain't gonna call 2" didn't make my list
But all the rest we sing on
And all the rest we sing on
And all these songs are song on road trips
And the monterey birches were bare
Raising their skinny arms to the stars in surrender
Lyrics submitted by sethbrown
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this is sweet, thanks! xo
i think the "she ain't gonna call 2" is a reference to the Reaching Quiet song
"And the monterey birches were bare Raising their skinny arms to the stars in surrender"
Excellent lyrics.
whose the little kid at the end? saying the "yo yo bye bye" part?
I think I remember reading somewhere that it's either his niece/nephew or cousin.
KingJelle, Thanks for the story! Thats awesome. I was wondering what this song was about.
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im fucking cold
She ain't gonna call you back.