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.
Round and round in circles, I coundn't tell you why, whenever you swim by, I can't breath.
Maybe I'm just drowing and you're swimmin around.
I'm down in the choral reaf.
Oh, how I wish we were the kissin kind of fish
'cause you, you're always on my mind.
But I feel like a fool waitn' around for you.
I must just be the sucker kind.
It's somethin' about the way you shine in the light, you glow.
Bright blue and pink in your cheeks.
I just wanted you to know:
You're not just another fish in the sea to me.
You're not just another fish in the sea to me.
Finally got close enough
to take a taste, took a look
Saw a hook in a piece of bait
And all at once I was ripped from the sea.
I'm a fish outta water and I can't breathe.
It's somethin' about the way you shine in the light, you glow.
Bright blue and pink in your cheeks.
I just wanted you to know:
You're not just another fish in the sea to me.
You're not just another fish in the sea to me.
I was decieved,
all along the pond was catch and release.
So I'm a goldfish 'cause they've no memory and I won't remember you.
Forgot me.
It's somethin' about the way you go and the light; it fades away
And the sea is as dark as the night.
There's nothing I can say.
You're not just another fish in the sea to me.
You're not just another fish in the sea to me.
You're not just another fish in the sea to me.
Maybe I'm just drowing and you're swimmin around.
I'm down in the choral reaf.
Oh, how I wish we were the kissin kind of fish
'cause you, you're always on my mind.
But I feel like a fool waitn' around for you.
I must just be the sucker kind.
It's somethin' about the way you shine in the light, you glow.
Bright blue and pink in your cheeks.
I just wanted you to know:
You're not just another fish in the sea to me.
You're not just another fish in the sea to me.
Finally got close enough
to take a taste, took a look
Saw a hook in a piece of bait
And all at once I was ripped from the sea.
I'm a fish outta water and I can't breathe.
It's somethin' about the way you shine in the light, you glow.
Bright blue and pink in your cheeks.
I just wanted you to know:
You're not just another fish in the sea to me.
You're not just another fish in the sea to me.
I was decieved,
all along the pond was catch and release.
So I'm a goldfish 'cause they've no memory and I won't remember you.
Forgot me.
It's somethin' about the way you go and the light; it fades away
And the sea is as dark as the night.
There's nothing I can say.
You're not just another fish in the sea to me.
You're not just another fish in the sea to me.
You're not just another fish in the sea to me.
Lyrics submitted by im_the_new_cancer
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