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.
VERSE 1
I've got so much to live for and no one to die for
A man told me never to toast with the devil
I heard guns a-blazing and the peace is a flailing
The rose petals colour the blood of all men
Th etrue love of real men is a painful affair
No emotion graces me greater than my lust for power (echo, "for power")
Caress me, with the blade of a machete
BRIDGE:
There is no-hunger, greater than a man's (x2)
Oh-no-hunger, that can satisfy, the godly desire
HOOK:
To be your heroe is my alterego
That's so suppressed by all by all the people
I want you to understand, I'm not a beautiful man
My shoulders are rough, I'm rugged and raw (echo, "rugged and raw")....but
I could be your heroe in my alterego
But even heroes pay the price for people
I want you to understand, I'm not a beautiful man
I just chose to be a better man
VERSE 2
When my adrenalin rises and my hunger suffices
The need is greater than the greed you perceive
My bones are a clattering, rattling, man! Unsettling
Patiently saddling this tug-boat I have been restlessly paddling
I am a tragedy romantic and my death should be poetic
It may be sad to go under but there can't be any other- other(x5)
BREAK:
No other way for me
No runaway for me
There's no escape for me
This is how it was meant to be
No other way for me
No I won't beg and plead
Only death can take my feet
Take from me, hate from me, pain from me
Everything
BRIDGE + HOOK:
VERSE 3
The truth remains that men are born
With a thirst for blood
The only love I have to give baby
Is a throny branch with blood stained petals
My heart is heavy metal solid gearbox
My skin black leather studded with cold shiny metal
And my rock guitar is a raging inferno
Drive insane on a quest for power
HOOK: (to end)
I've got so much to live for and no one to die for
A man told me never to toast with the devil
I heard guns a-blazing and the peace is a flailing
The rose petals colour the blood of all men
Th etrue love of real men is a painful affair
No emotion graces me greater than my lust for power (echo, "for power")
Caress me, with the blade of a machete
BRIDGE:
There is no-hunger, greater than a man's (x2)
Oh-no-hunger, that can satisfy, the godly desire
HOOK:
To be your heroe is my alterego
That's so suppressed by all by all the people
I want you to understand, I'm not a beautiful man
My shoulders are rough, I'm rugged and raw (echo, "rugged and raw")....but
I could be your heroe in my alterego
But even heroes pay the price for people
I want you to understand, I'm not a beautiful man
I just chose to be a better man
VERSE 2
When my adrenalin rises and my hunger suffices
The need is greater than the greed you perceive
My bones are a clattering, rattling, man! Unsettling
Patiently saddling this tug-boat I have been restlessly paddling
I am a tragedy romantic and my death should be poetic
It may be sad to go under but there can't be any other- other(x5)
BREAK:
No other way for me
No runaway for me
There's no escape for me
This is how it was meant to be
No other way for me
No I won't beg and plead
Only death can take my feet
Take from me, hate from me, pain from me
Everything
BRIDGE + HOOK:
VERSE 3
The truth remains that men are born
With a thirst for blood
The only love I have to give baby
Is a throny branch with blood stained petals
My heart is heavy metal solid gearbox
My skin black leather studded with cold shiny metal
And my rock guitar is a raging inferno
Drive insane on a quest for power
HOOK: (to end)
Lyrics submitted by ddkwenda
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