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.
The elevator, in the hotel lobby has a lazy door
The man inside is going to a hotel room
He jumped out right after seeing just the very sight of me
Decided he better hike it to the second floor
Its temporary, this place I'm in
I permanently wont do this again
My belongings scattered across the hotel floor
Now then later, I was thinking it over by the snack machine
I thought about you and a candy bar
The now and laters, now that I've got, stuck between my teeth
I fell asleep to the greatest movie of the year
A man gets lonely, for heavens sake
He's wondering only what did you do today
The worlds spinning around into an old, sad song
Well it's coming down outside like Ive never even seen before
I fell into some kind of sorry state
But looking back now, I think it's time for me to laugh about it
And get my things together and find something to say
Well I feel awful, and I believe
That time gets wasted in this misery
And darling, I never wanna come back home
The man inside is going to a hotel room
He jumped out right after seeing just the very sight of me
Decided he better hike it to the second floor
Its temporary, this place I'm in
I permanently wont do this again
My belongings scattered across the hotel floor
Now then later, I was thinking it over by the snack machine
I thought about you and a candy bar
The now and laters, now that I've got, stuck between my teeth
I fell asleep to the greatest movie of the year
A man gets lonely, for heavens sake
He's wondering only what did you do today
The worlds spinning around into an old, sad song
Well it's coming down outside like Ive never even seen before
I fell into some kind of sorry state
But looking back now, I think it's time for me to laugh about it
And get my things together and find something to say
Well I feel awful, and I believe
That time gets wasted in this misery
And darling, I never wanna come back home
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