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.
We're not looking for trouble
I'm taking one on the chin
I don't know where I'm going
Or where to begin alone in this room
Thinking of you and what could have been
The trouble that I've seen
The trouble got to me
There's no signs of life in here at all
The sound of quiet is deafening
I'll wait for you to call
There's no signs of life in here at all
Oh the trouble that I've seen
The trouble won't get the best of me
Ah la la la la la ah la la la la la
Ah la la la la la la
Sending you out a signal over land over sea
From the top of the Great Lakes
Down the Mississippi alone in a room
Thinking of you and those possibilities
The trouble that I've seen
This trouble got to me
There's no signs of life in here at all
The sound of quiet is deafening
I'll wait for you to call
There's no signs of life in here at all
Oh the trouble that I've seen the trouble
Oh the trouble that I've seen
And trouble won't get the best of me
There's no signs of life in here at all
The sound of quiet is deafening
I'll wait for you to call
There's no signs of life in here at all
Oh the trouble that I've seen the trouble
Oh the trouble that I've seen
And trouble won't get the best of me
I'm taking one on the chin
I don't know where I'm going
Or where to begin alone in this room
Thinking of you and what could have been
The trouble that I've seen
The trouble got to me
There's no signs of life in here at all
The sound of quiet is deafening
I'll wait for you to call
There's no signs of life in here at all
Oh the trouble that I've seen
The trouble won't get the best of me
Ah la la la la la ah la la la la la
Ah la la la la la la
Sending you out a signal over land over sea
From the top of the Great Lakes
Down the Mississippi alone in a room
Thinking of you and those possibilities
The trouble that I've seen
This trouble got to me
There's no signs of life in here at all
The sound of quiet is deafening
I'll wait for you to call
There's no signs of life in here at all
Oh the trouble that I've seen the trouble
Oh the trouble that I've seen
And trouble won't get the best of me
There's no signs of life in here at all
The sound of quiet is deafening
I'll wait for you to call
There's no signs of life in here at all
Oh the trouble that I've seen the trouble
Oh the trouble that I've seen
And trouble won't get the best of me
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