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.
At the very first sound
There was just light
And then, a storm of time and space just came and struck
Created our time
In water life
We understand, just only began
Forced to look to the sky
And wonder why
We cannot face the fact that we're all scared now
Of mysteries of life
There is a mask that soon will fall
Before the strong embrace of love and might
Of light in the dark
I go for a quest
I have to give myself the answer
Enter now this place in the wild
I can see the glade
My feeling now is growing bigger
From the sky
From the sky
I do feel like no one can save me
I am so alone and yet I cried
I called for help, forsaken
But now I know the only was is to understand the living
Obey the rule of light and face the fear
Inside out
Lost, I found there a stone
Erected in line
With one the brightest stars
Of all the night sky vaults
And I took my time
Took off the moss
Washed away the dust and gave a new lease of life
Its mystical force
I grab it now
And praise this lord of earth and stone
Make passage for souls awaken
So it returns
To where it's always been, with the gods
Now coming, I feel the love
It comes from on high
I know the words
But now I feel it inside
It grows, it's there
And all, it comes
From the sky
From the sky
There was just light
And then, a storm of time and space just came and struck
Created our time
In water life
We understand, just only began
Forced to look to the sky
And wonder why
We cannot face the fact that we're all scared now
Of mysteries of life
There is a mask that soon will fall
Before the strong embrace of love and might
Of light in the dark
I go for a quest
I have to give myself the answer
Enter now this place in the wild
I can see the glade
My feeling now is growing bigger
From the sky
From the sky
I do feel like no one can save me
I am so alone and yet I cried
I called for help, forsaken
But now I know the only was is to understand the living
Obey the rule of light and face the fear
Inside out
Lost, I found there a stone
Erected in line
With one the brightest stars
Of all the night sky vaults
And I took my time
Took off the moss
Washed away the dust and gave a new lease of life
Its mystical force
I grab it now
And praise this lord of earth and stone
Make passage for souls awaken
So it returns
To where it's always been, with the gods
Now coming, I feel the love
It comes from on high
I know the words
But now I feel it inside
It grows, it's there
And all, it comes
From the sky
From the sky
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