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.
A shadow of myself, just who am I?
Scan horizons
A tragic mystery
You could have left me here, sealed inside the pod
No one would ever know - The chaos control
My true identity
The power that is me
We all danced in fire
Trapped in this machine
Don't kow how long we've waited
As the Eggman's watching
We all danced in fire
Looking thru the screen
Don't know how long we've waited
As the Eggman watches
With Rouge in the fight - electric lives
Change surroundings
A jewel in history
A treasure disappears - as she goes
Miss her as you look away - and no one knows
This power is a key
This power changes me
We all danced in fire
Trapped in this machine
Don't kow how long we've waited
As the Eggman's watching
We all danced in fire
Looking thru the screen
Don't know how long we've waited
As the Eggman watches
E-123
You don't know - now I'm gonna show you
The power that is me
You try to take me down - stop the show
Seems you've never tasted fear - or loss of control
The power lives in me
The power that is me
We all danced in fire
Trapped in this machine
Don't kow how long we've waited
As the Eggman's watching
We all danced in fire
Looking thru the screen
Don't know how long we've waited
As the Eggman watches
Scan horizons
A tragic mystery
You could have left me here, sealed inside the pod
No one would ever know - The chaos control
My true identity
The power that is me
We all danced in fire
Trapped in this machine
Don't kow how long we've waited
As the Eggman's watching
We all danced in fire
Looking thru the screen
Don't know how long we've waited
As the Eggman watches
With Rouge in the fight - electric lives
Change surroundings
A jewel in history
A treasure disappears - as she goes
Miss her as you look away - and no one knows
This power is a key
This power changes me
We all danced in fire
Trapped in this machine
Don't kow how long we've waited
As the Eggman's watching
We all danced in fire
Looking thru the screen
Don't know how long we've waited
As the Eggman watches
E-123
You don't know - now I'm gonna show you
The power that is me
You try to take me down - stop the show
Seems you've never tasted fear - or loss of control
The power lives in me
The power that is me
We all danced in fire
Trapped in this machine
Don't kow how long we've waited
As the Eggman's watching
We all danced in fire
Looking thru the screen
Don't know how long we've waited
As the Eggman watches
Lyrics submitted by Kamseki
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