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's in the laxative they're cutting in the cocaine baby
It's in the heroin, the ecstasy they're mixing lately
Give me the boys and girls in bathrooms getting plenty friendly
With just the thought of us debauched and in the missionary
Watch me out of my skull
Watch me out of my mind
I'm out of control
But I'm still alive
Go get me cigarettes
Watch the circus pass by
Two's up on an eighth
All back to mine
What a feeling
Got steep my sweet dysfunction
I'll keep on kneeling
For my chemical devotion
Let me kiss the ceiling
It's just a notion for you
More than a feeling
That sweet devotion for you
It's in the black sick and the choking on the blood and your tears
It's in the echo of the jackdaw ringing in your ears
Watch me out of my gates
They'll advised unprepared
No one gave a shit
When nobody cared
Another wasted talent
But that's just fine
Two's up on an eighth
All back to mine
What a feeling
Got steep my sweet dysfunction
I'll keep on stealing
For my chemical devotion
Don't kiss the ceiling
More than a potion for you
More than a feeling
That sweet devotion for you
I can't take the fever from you
I don't want to neither
They're dropping science on you
You just need a breather
I'll be looking over you
Overlooking me
It's all in God's time
All back to mine
What a feeling
Got steep my sweet dysfunction
So appealing
This chemical devotion
Got to kiss the ceiling
More than an ocean for you
More than a feeling
That sweet devotion for you
Shallow in the deep end
Got steep my sweet dysfunction
And I can depend
On chemical devotion
It's like my best friend
That keeps the world in motion
I've got to defend
My chemical devotion
It's in the heroin, the ecstasy they're mixing lately
Give me the boys and girls in bathrooms getting plenty friendly
With just the thought of us debauched and in the missionary
Watch me out of my skull
Watch me out of my mind
I'm out of control
But I'm still alive
Go get me cigarettes
Watch the circus pass by
Two's up on an eighth
All back to mine
What a feeling
Got steep my sweet dysfunction
I'll keep on kneeling
For my chemical devotion
Let me kiss the ceiling
It's just a notion for you
More than a feeling
That sweet devotion for you
It's in the black sick and the choking on the blood and your tears
It's in the echo of the jackdaw ringing in your ears
Watch me out of my gates
They'll advised unprepared
No one gave a shit
When nobody cared
Another wasted talent
But that's just fine
Two's up on an eighth
All back to mine
What a feeling
Got steep my sweet dysfunction
I'll keep on stealing
For my chemical devotion
Don't kiss the ceiling
More than a potion for you
More than a feeling
That sweet devotion for you
I can't take the fever from you
I don't want to neither
They're dropping science on you
You just need a breather
I'll be looking over you
Overlooking me
It's all in God's time
All back to mine
What a feeling
Got steep my sweet dysfunction
So appealing
This chemical devotion
Got to kiss the ceiling
More than an ocean for you
More than a feeling
That sweet devotion for you
Shallow in the deep end
Got steep my sweet dysfunction
And I can depend
On chemical devotion
It's like my best friend
That keeps the world in motion
I've got to defend
My chemical devotion
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