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.
Uh,
Yeah,
Uh oh,
Yea
Hey Barbie, ah, ah, ah, are you into black men?
He hey hey barbie! Hey I can be your black ken
Wow! cause' once you go black, you never go back
She wore her hair black, with curls in the back
Then she threw that a** back, back, back
Then I fell to the mat, and after that
Everything went black!
Baby one, two, three
Tell 'em get the referee
'Cause he can, get the knockout
If the telephone rings
Its an emergency
'Cause he can, get the knockout
Get the knockout
Hey Barbie, can I call you Barbra? ha ha
Hey Barbie! can I call you tomorrow, and today
'Cause once you go black, you never go back
And once you go Wayne, everybody else is whack
Then she threw that a** back, back, back,
Then I fell to the mat
And after that everything went black!
Baby one, two, three
Tell 'em get the referee
'Cause he can, get the knockout
If the telephone rings
Its emergency
'Cause he can, get the knockout
Get the knockout
Awe f*** it
Give me that damn bucket
Wh-when I throw this p****
You better not start duckin'
Oh yo
How long with the blow
Lo-look out in the crowd
And everybody's yellin' no
Grab him by his locks
And get the message out the box
The head hit below the belt
I wanna give him the talk
Tock, tock
Give him good top
And if it hit below the belt
I wanna give him good top
One, two, three
They yellin' one, two, three
I done hit him with that motherf***in' c*** two piece
Tell 'em, tell 'em the mop out
To late to cop out
Give him more head than toothpaste like I locked out
Baby one, two, three
Tell 'em get the referee
'Cause he can, get the knockout
If the telephone rings
Its an emergency
'Cause he can, get the knockout
Get the knockout
So just knock me out
So just knock me out
Yea
Just knock me out
So just knock me out
Just knock me out
Just knock me out
Just knock me out
Just knock me out
Yeah,
Uh oh,
Yea
Hey Barbie, ah, ah, ah, are you into black men?
He hey hey barbie! Hey I can be your black ken
Wow! cause' once you go black, you never go back
She wore her hair black, with curls in the back
Then she threw that a** back, back, back
Then I fell to the mat, and after that
Everything went black!
Baby one, two, three
Tell 'em get the referee
'Cause he can, get the knockout
If the telephone rings
Its an emergency
'Cause he can, get the knockout
Get the knockout
Hey Barbie, can I call you Barbra? ha ha
Hey Barbie! can I call you tomorrow, and today
'Cause once you go black, you never go back
And once you go Wayne, everybody else is whack
Then she threw that a** back, back, back,
Then I fell to the mat
And after that everything went black!
Baby one, two, three
Tell 'em get the referee
'Cause he can, get the knockout
If the telephone rings
Its emergency
'Cause he can, get the knockout
Get the knockout
Awe f*** it
Give me that damn bucket
Wh-when I throw this p****
You better not start duckin'
Oh yo
How long with the blow
Lo-look out in the crowd
And everybody's yellin' no
Grab him by his locks
And get the message out the box
The head hit below the belt
I wanna give him the talk
Tock, tock
Give him good top
And if it hit below the belt
I wanna give him good top
One, two, three
They yellin' one, two, three
I done hit him with that motherf***in' c*** two piece
Tell 'em, tell 'em the mop out
To late to cop out
Give him more head than toothpaste like I locked out
Baby one, two, three
Tell 'em get the referee
'Cause he can, get the knockout
If the telephone rings
Its an emergency
'Cause he can, get the knockout
Get the knockout
So just knock me out
So just knock me out
Yea
Just knock me out
So just knock me out
Just knock me out
Just knock me out
Just knock me out
Just knock me out
Lyrics submitted by thrwmyhrtawy.
Knockout Lyrics as written by Kevin Crowe Erik Ortiz
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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I love this song, it's obviously about sex...