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.
How can I see, shadowed ambiguity?
With these eyes deceived and bring my mind into obscurity
Can't find that memory, awake in a dream
Please release my hand, it's not painful, smile
'Cause you open me up
You take what's inside
Never know how I feel about you
Everything inside it turns blue, are you on my side?
Trying to breathe, forgive and it just strangles me
Can't keep my head above your flood of insecurities
Watch the wrong frame, I need to get away, can I slip away?
It's not the same 'cause you're a fake, beautiful mistake
I'll never make the same mistake
'Cause you open me up
You take what's inside
Never know how I feel about you
Everything inside it turns blue, are you on my side?
I'm broken and desperate
You're lost and dead inside
You needed this to happen to satisfy denial
'Cause you open me up
You take what's inside
Never know how I feel about you
Everything inside it turns blue, are you on my side?
With these eyes deceived and bring my mind into obscurity
Can't find that memory, awake in a dream
Please release my hand, it's not painful, smile
'Cause you open me up
You take what's inside
Never know how I feel about you
Everything inside it turns blue, are you on my side?
Trying to breathe, forgive and it just strangles me
Can't keep my head above your flood of insecurities
Watch the wrong frame, I need to get away, can I slip away?
It's not the same 'cause you're a fake, beautiful mistake
I'll never make the same mistake
'Cause you open me up
You take what's inside
Never know how I feel about you
Everything inside it turns blue, are you on my side?
I'm broken and desperate
You're lost and dead inside
You needed this to happen to satisfy denial
'Cause you open me up
You take what's inside
Never know how I feel about you
Everything inside it turns blue, are you on my side?
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