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.
You left your notes on lesbian sex
On the fishtank in the hall
It took me all afternoon
To read them all
I learned more in that day
Than I've ever learned before
I don't think you and I
Should go clubbing anymore
Last night your mother called to say
Your father's run away
With the man who plays the polar bear
In Disney's Ice Parade
She says don't worry she's okay
She hated ice-dance anyway
And now she'll have more time alone
To drink her days away
Drink her days away
Doesn't need anyone to help her
Doesn't need anyone to help her
She's okay
Now Ive come home again
To find you in a sticky mess
We won't get our deposit back
If you carry on like this
So put away your whips and chains
They couldn't hold me anyway
It's the space between your shoulder blades
That makes me want to stay
And I'm okay
I don't need anyone to help me
I'm okay, I don't need anyone to help me
I'm okay
And now we retreat to the kitchen I'll make you some tea
You tell me when you were young you thought there would be
Something more glorious for you to be
And I say glorious?
What could be more glorious than you and me
And so your father's run away
Your mother's in a drunken haze
Doesn't mean that you and I can't make it anyway
So strap your armor on your chest
Buckle up your chainmail vest
What better than to walk this land with the boy who knows you best?
And we're okay
We don't need anyone to help us
We don't need anyone to help us
We're okay, we don't need anyone to help us
We're okay, we don't need anyone to help us
We're okay
On the fishtank in the hall
It took me all afternoon
To read them all
I learned more in that day
Than I've ever learned before
I don't think you and I
Should go clubbing anymore
Last night your mother called to say
Your father's run away
With the man who plays the polar bear
In Disney's Ice Parade
She says don't worry she's okay
She hated ice-dance anyway
And now she'll have more time alone
To drink her days away
Drink her days away
Doesn't need anyone to help her
Doesn't need anyone to help her
She's okay
Now Ive come home again
To find you in a sticky mess
We won't get our deposit back
If you carry on like this
So put away your whips and chains
They couldn't hold me anyway
It's the space between your shoulder blades
That makes me want to stay
And I'm okay
I don't need anyone to help me
I'm okay, I don't need anyone to help me
I'm okay
And now we retreat to the kitchen I'll make you some tea
You tell me when you were young you thought there would be
Something more glorious for you to be
And I say glorious?
What could be more glorious than you and me
And so your father's run away
Your mother's in a drunken haze
Doesn't mean that you and I can't make it anyway
So strap your armor on your chest
Buckle up your chainmail vest
What better than to walk this land with the boy who knows you best?
And we're okay
We don't need anyone to help us
We don't need anyone to help us
We're okay, we don't need anyone to help us
We're okay, we don't need anyone to help us
We're okay
Lyrics submitted by TosMcGee
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