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.
I'm fixing a drink in the morning
With a wavy tongue
You may have stayed too long
You're splitting apart at the seams
From the hospital call
You've known him so long
If there's a God up in the air
Someone looking over everyone
At least you got something to fall back on
Deep in the heart of the country
Was a house I built from logs
A raven and a lady hawk
Quiet and calm through the day
See the sun burn through the fog
Approaching was a yellow dog
If there's a God up in the air
Someone looking over everyone
At least you got something to fall back on
And what are people really for?
Does any body even care?
I'll bet you get a lot of compliments down there
If there's a God up in the air
Someone looking over everyone
At least you got something to fall back on
And do you got something to say?
Isn't something coming over you?
Do you got important things still left to do?
With a wavy tongue
You may have stayed too long
You're splitting apart at the seams
From the hospital call
You've known him so long
If there's a God up in the air
Someone looking over everyone
At least you got something to fall back on
Deep in the heart of the country
Was a house I built from logs
A raven and a lady hawk
Quiet and calm through the day
See the sun burn through the fog
Approaching was a yellow dog
If there's a God up in the air
Someone looking over everyone
At least you got something to fall back on
And what are people really for?
Does any body even care?
I'll bet you get a lot of compliments down there
If there's a God up in the air
Someone looking over everyone
At least you got something to fall back on
And do you got something to say?
Isn't something coming over you?
Do you got important things still left to do?
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Some corrections -
Line 2 not WAVY JAR(!) but WITH THE WAY THINGS ARE Line 5 not CAR, it's CALL Line 13 it's QUIET AND CALM THROUGH THE DAY Line 15 I think it's yellow DAWN rahter than DOG
Thanks for posting these, can't wait for the new CD!
ooh, good catches.<br /> <br /> for Line 15 DOG, I was influenced by the music video, which shows a yellow dog at that moment. DAWN, however, fits the tone and lyrics much better
i love band of horses. their style and ingenuity never ceases to amaze me. this song is definitely a great teaser for infinite arms, can't wait!
Ha, I hadn't really paid attention to the video and that IS a yellow dog! But as you say, the lyric IS "dawn" - maybe the guy who did the video misheard (which is pretty funny!) or more likely Ben is playing with the listener (After all this is a guy who wrote a song where he sings EYELIDS WANT TO CLOSE in the chorus and titled the song ISLANDS ON THE COAST - go figure!)
I believe on the inserts with the new albumn... the lric says, "A raven and a lady HAWK"
As for the other lyric... I thought it was dog too?? lol. Who cares... I love the new albumn! Can't wait to see 'em live again. And I hear they're going to be at Austin City Limits this year too. Woohoo!!
New Album is phenomenal as is to be expected from such an experienced and talented band. I was sortof sad no one has any actual input on the meaning of this song just yet...because I am having some trouble...oh well. I'll check back!
"And what are people really for?" Not "hope".
An excerpt from an interview with Ben Bridwell and NME:
This song appears to be a hypothesis on the existence of God. However, frontman Ben Bridwell makes no great claims about the track. "I don't really know what that one is about," he told The NME. "No, really," he continued. "It's not anything about religion or any of that kind of s---t. That's one of the songs that kind of tapped me on the shoulder and wrote itself. I was on a lake among a bunch of trees and s--t and that's just what came out, man. Sometimes they write themselves."