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.
From the darkest river
Comes the darkest heart
Never to be one with all I know
So bitter to the core
Won't you fix your grudging soul
Forgiving, yet unable to see what you have done
Embraced by the treasury
The mind's in captivity
I'm not your enemy
Forced mind activity
Now is it so damn hard
Don't tell me what I don't deserve
(Coating the words, crushing the urge)
To be able to feel something more
Now where do we go?
Where do we go?
[Chorus]
Deliverance is mine
Me, myself and the hands of time
Deliverance is mine
And you're way out of line
Deliverance is mine
Me, myself and the hands of time
Deliverance is mine
(All of this is)
Now let me run my own fucking show
Make up with your spitefulness
Drain yourself from all the guilt
Become all of what you preach
Before you spill all your guts
Embraced by the treasury
The mind's in captivity
I'm not your enemy
(Transporting all the guilt)
Forced mind activity
(Ignoring what was built)
Now where do we go?
Where do we go?
[Chorus]
(Time to live through yourself)
(Time to kill that golden parasite)
(Respect your own self)
(Stop intoxicating your beliefs)
Now where do we go?
Where do we go?
[Chorus]
Live through yourself
Comes the darkest heart
Never to be one with all I know
So bitter to the core
Won't you fix your grudging soul
Forgiving, yet unable to see what you have done
Embraced by the treasury
The mind's in captivity
I'm not your enemy
Forced mind activity
Now is it so damn hard
Don't tell me what I don't deserve
(Coating the words, crushing the urge)
To be able to feel something more
Now where do we go?
Where do we go?
[Chorus]
Deliverance is mine
Me, myself and the hands of time
Deliverance is mine
And you're way out of line
Deliverance is mine
Me, myself and the hands of time
Deliverance is mine
(All of this is)
Now let me run my own fucking show
Make up with your spitefulness
Drain yourself from all the guilt
Become all of what you preach
Before you spill all your guts
Embraced by the treasury
The mind's in captivity
I'm not your enemy
(Transporting all the guilt)
Forced mind activity
(Ignoring what was built)
Now where do we go?
Where do we go?
[Chorus]
(Time to live through yourself)
(Time to kill that golden parasite)
(Respect your own self)
(Stop intoxicating your beliefs)
Now where do we go?
Where do we go?
[Chorus]
Live through yourself
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