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.
wait..wait..
you have only yourself to blame...
you hear distant voices,
speaking only to you..
special words for safe ears,
telling you secrets,
that only you can understand,
that only you can comprehend...
your imagination has been given the freedom
to do whatever you want to do
and nobody will tell you to stop,
to cease,
or to go away..
around your spinning head,
around your golden head
special words,glowing..
wait.. wait..
you hear a distant hissing,
you hear voices,
you turn your head,
thc walls,
the songs,
the birds,
the morning,
you see everything that you want to see,
everything is possible..
people of good clean spirits
daughters,sons,you thirteen gods,
thirteen peaks,
stars,mountains,
you are the word,
you are pure,
you are everything or anything that you want to be,
you are everything.
you have only yourself to blame...
you hear distant voices,
speaking only to you..
special words for safe ears,
telling you secrets,
that only you can understand,
that only you can comprehend...
your imagination has been given the freedom
to do whatever you want to do
and nobody will tell you to stop,
to cease,
or to go away..
around your spinning head,
around your golden head
special words,glowing..
wait.. wait..
you hear a distant hissing,
you hear voices,
you turn your head,
thc walls,
the songs,
the birds,
the morning,
you see everything that you want to see,
everything is possible..
people of good clean spirits
daughters,sons,you thirteen gods,
thirteen peaks,
stars,mountains,
you are the word,
you are pure,
you are everything or anything that you want to be,
you are everything.
Lyrics submitted by defaultxr
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