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.
Yeah you would never have come up
Unless you cross that line
Baby I got bored of it and after all my favourites
I threw them in a ditch
Yeah you would never have come up, nah, nah
But we have found some time
Correct me when I'm off my plane
I have been known to curse in vain so throw me in a ditch
You can't return to this city with no
No respect, no respect, no respect, no respect, nah, nah
She left a letter on the fridge of what dinner was
She asked me if the colour green held the weight of a drug
I'll have nothing to do with what you have in your mouth
I've come too far to put my face on the rocks
I found a letter that was marked with a kiss
Shit so pungent I would rub it on my missing lips
She left a letter on the fridge of what dinner was
She asked me if the colour green held the weight of a drug
I'll have nothing to do with what you have in your mouth
I've come too far, ba-ba-ba-ba-bow
You can't return to this city with no
No respect, no respect, no respect, no respect, nah, nah
Bitch I'll come through your city with my
Chain around my neck, you won't get my chest
Can't get past my vest, can't get past my vest, you can't get past
Thought about the weight of a magnet
Thought about the stretch of a glove
Thought about a life undercover
I felt the pressure of a steel-plated gun
Thank the cabby or the police, whoever it was
For the lift to the station and the two golden cuffs
I wasn't pissed about the shape or the two-fisted shove
I was more concerned about the water weight of a drug
(And it's the bass, that drives you crazy)
I think I might come down on coffee
I think I might need a phone to call home
I think I might be swallowing numbers
I think they think I'm just green to the bone
Well...
Yeah you would never have come up
Even if I could, I would not so run back to him or her
Or whichever you want
(All I saw were two dead magnets)
We rock daggers in our eyelids
Whores get severed when I blink, severed when I blink twice
From the red light, from the red light, from the red light
We rock daggers in our eyelids
Whores get severed when I blink, severed when I blink twice
From the red light, from the red light, from the red light
Unless you cross that line
Baby I got bored of it and after all my favourites
I threw them in a ditch
Yeah you would never have come up, nah, nah
But we have found some time
Correct me when I'm off my plane
I have been known to curse in vain so throw me in a ditch
You can't return to this city with no
No respect, no respect, no respect, no respect, nah, nah
She left a letter on the fridge of what dinner was
She asked me if the colour green held the weight of a drug
I'll have nothing to do with what you have in your mouth
I've come too far to put my face on the rocks
I found a letter that was marked with a kiss
Shit so pungent I would rub it on my missing lips
She left a letter on the fridge of what dinner was
She asked me if the colour green held the weight of a drug
I'll have nothing to do with what you have in your mouth
I've come too far, ba-ba-ba-ba-bow
You can't return to this city with no
No respect, no respect, no respect, no respect, nah, nah
Bitch I'll come through your city with my
Chain around my neck, you won't get my chest
Can't get past my vest, can't get past my vest, you can't get past
Thought about the weight of a magnet
Thought about the stretch of a glove
Thought about a life undercover
I felt the pressure of a steel-plated gun
Thank the cabby or the police, whoever it was
For the lift to the station and the two golden cuffs
I wasn't pissed about the shape or the two-fisted shove
I was more concerned about the water weight of a drug
(And it's the bass, that drives you crazy)
I think I might come down on coffee
I think I might need a phone to call home
I think I might be swallowing numbers
I think they think I'm just green to the bone
Well...
Yeah you would never have come up
Even if I could, I would not so run back to him or her
Or whichever you want
(All I saw were two dead magnets)
We rock daggers in our eyelids
Whores get severed when I blink, severed when I blink twice
From the red light, from the red light, from the red light
We rock daggers in our eyelids
Whores get severed when I blink, severed when I blink twice
From the red light, from the red light, from the red light
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