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.
he sardonic presence of a felon to the elected arbiter,
As they resolve the punishment for the malefactor before them,
This castigation undermined by words designed for a humane cause,
Applied to every being with the capacity to be over-ruled,
Deficient and free from a clause,
Becoming a sanctuary for those that would otherwise be rightfully condemned,
A gaurded life and a shelter for an eye,
No idea of the peccency displayed,
The only way to teach and reform - an eye for an eye,
Revoke an inversion of this law,
No longer an insult to the prey,
Stripped of the rights they assumed to none,
Egalitarianism stating an equality,
For each and every life, untimately incarcerated,
The torturous fruition that dissolution is just,
A sanction neutrally rewritten, appertaining to the
Seizure and vengeance for their sins,
A blackened shrine to let the blood of the depraved,
Left violated an exorcism to maim your desire,
Castigate them, reprise their rights,
Biolate and scar their remains,
Held captor in a hell of own design,
The nefarious system consumes itself,
Unseeing to the means of evasion,
Strewn within our commandments,
The torturous fruition that dissolution is just,
A sanction neutrally rewritten, appertaining to the
Seizure and vengeance for their sins,
A blackened shrine to let the blood of the depraved,
Left violated an exorcism to maim your desire,
Castigate them, reprise their rights,
Violate and scar their remains.
As they resolve the punishment for the malefactor before them,
This castigation undermined by words designed for a humane cause,
Applied to every being with the capacity to be over-ruled,
Deficient and free from a clause,
Becoming a sanctuary for those that would otherwise be rightfully condemned,
A gaurded life and a shelter for an eye,
No idea of the peccency displayed,
The only way to teach and reform - an eye for an eye,
Revoke an inversion of this law,
No longer an insult to the prey,
Stripped of the rights they assumed to none,
Egalitarianism stating an equality,
For each and every life, untimately incarcerated,
The torturous fruition that dissolution is just,
A sanction neutrally rewritten, appertaining to the
Seizure and vengeance for their sins,
A blackened shrine to let the blood of the depraved,
Left violated an exorcism to maim your desire,
Castigate them, reprise their rights,
Biolate and scar their remains,
Held captor in a hell of own design,
The nefarious system consumes itself,
Unseeing to the means of evasion,
Strewn within our commandments,
The torturous fruition that dissolution is just,
A sanction neutrally rewritten, appertaining to the
Seizure and vengeance for their sins,
A blackened shrine to let the blood of the depraved,
Left violated an exorcism to maim your desire,
Castigate them, reprise their rights,
Violate and scar their remains.
Lyrics submitted by sepultura1987
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