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.
Get me out of here
This isn't slowing down
We've hit black ice and lost control
We're spinning faster now
Tell me are we flying? Are we falling to the ground?
If tomorrow doesn't come, did we die for nothing?
Recounting past events has helped reveal that you don't give a damn
about the days when you would live the words you wrote
Not the person who you were; I hate the person you've become
You inspired. Now expired, it has died for nothing
Some stop feeling love for all the places they come from
A person I will not become
A jaded liar, unforgivable
Some stop feeling love for every word that they once sung
May I never lose my youth and If I do, may I be forgettable
You said you started up this home
because you didn't like the way these kinds of things were run
You've said you understand the work it takes to make us grow
If you had then where were you?
We've payed our dues without you
Am I the only one who sees all of the deceit and festering hypocrisy?
Don't ever talk to me like you think you know me or what I've been through
I am nothing like you!
Some stop feeling love for all the places they come from
A person I will not become
A jaded liar, unforgivable
Some stop feeling love for every word that they once sung
May I never lose my youth and If I do, may I be forgettable
This is The Fallen
This is the last time you will have us
You're lawless and purely dishonest
A scandal that we have funded for you
Make no mistake this all is about you
No, we never knew
(This is the last time you will have us)
Don't buy what they sell you
(You're lawless and purely dishonest)
No, we never knew
(A scandal that we have funded for you)
Don't buy what they sell you
(Make no mistake this all is about you)
But I can't stop feeling love for this place we both came from
I will never lose my youth
All of this is too unforgettable
Some stop feeling love
Some stop feeling love for all the places they come from
A person I will not become
A jaded liar, unforgivable
Some stop feeling love for every word that they once sung
May I never lose my youth and If I do, may I be forgettable
This isn't slowing down
We've hit black ice and lost control
We're spinning faster now
Tell me are we flying? Are we falling to the ground?
If tomorrow doesn't come, did we die for nothing?
Recounting past events has helped reveal that you don't give a damn
about the days when you would live the words you wrote
Not the person who you were; I hate the person you've become
You inspired. Now expired, it has died for nothing
Some stop feeling love for all the places they come from
A person I will not become
A jaded liar, unforgivable
Some stop feeling love for every word that they once sung
May I never lose my youth and If I do, may I be forgettable
You said you started up this home
because you didn't like the way these kinds of things were run
You've said you understand the work it takes to make us grow
If you had then where were you?
We've payed our dues without you
Am I the only one who sees all of the deceit and festering hypocrisy?
Don't ever talk to me like you think you know me or what I've been through
I am nothing like you!
Some stop feeling love for all the places they come from
A person I will not become
A jaded liar, unforgivable
Some stop feeling love for every word that they once sung
May I never lose my youth and If I do, may I be forgettable
This is The Fallen
This is the last time you will have us
You're lawless and purely dishonest
A scandal that we have funded for you
Make no mistake this all is about you
No, we never knew
(This is the last time you will have us)
Don't buy what they sell you
(You're lawless and purely dishonest)
No, we never knew
(A scandal that we have funded for you)
Don't buy what they sell you
(Make no mistake this all is about you)
But I can't stop feeling love for this place we both came from
I will never lose my youth
All of this is too unforgettable
Some stop feeling love
Some stop feeling love for all the places they come from
A person I will not become
A jaded liar, unforgivable
Some stop feeling love for every word that they once sung
May I never lose my youth and If I do, may I be forgettable
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The Fallen... Lyrics as written by Jordan Paul Brown Mike Ambrose
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