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 am from Salinas where the women go forever
And they never ever to stop to ask why
My mother was a saviour of six foot of bad behaviour
With long, blond curly hair down to her thigh
Oh my mother
Oh my friends
Ask the angels "Will I ever see heaven again?"
Late into the evening, they would take each other screaming
Looking darkly to the back of her eye
The careless beast was bleating that the air behind was breathing
That they musn't ever look up to the sky
There are no answers
There are found
Ask the angels, "Am I heaven-bound?"
"Oh am I heaven-bound?"
Put it down to me
I, who speak awkwardly
Any word, if it is heard, is not intended to be
Not for them, not for her
Not for him, and not for me
Oh and that gun would turn before the sun starts to burn, understand
When the clouds roll in, we start paying for our sins
With a gun in my hand and my sun at my shoulder
Believe I will run before that boy gets older
Oh and that gun would turn before the sun starts to burn, understand
Oh and that gun would turn before the sun starts to burn, understand
I am from Salinas where the women go forever
And they never ever stop to ask why
My mother, she's a saviour of six foot of bad behaviour
With long, blond curly hair down to her thigh
Oh my mother
Oh my friends
Ask the angels, "Will I ever see heaven again?"
"Will I ever see even again?"
"Will I ever see even again?"
Punish them all, for they speak too much
Hate the world for what it did to us
Will I ever see heaven again?
And they never ever to stop to ask why
My mother was a saviour of six foot of bad behaviour
With long, blond curly hair down to her thigh
Oh my mother
Oh my friends
Ask the angels "Will I ever see heaven again?"
Late into the evening, they would take each other screaming
Looking darkly to the back of her eye
The careless beast was bleating that the air behind was breathing
That they musn't ever look up to the sky
There are no answers
There are found
Ask the angels, "Am I heaven-bound?"
"Oh am I heaven-bound?"
Put it down to me
I, who speak awkwardly
Any word, if it is heard, is not intended to be
Not for them, not for her
Not for him, and not for me
Oh and that gun would turn before the sun starts to burn, understand
When the clouds roll in, we start paying for our sins
With a gun in my hand and my sun at my shoulder
Believe I will run before that boy gets older
Oh and that gun would turn before the sun starts to burn, understand
Oh and that gun would turn before the sun starts to burn, understand
I am from Salinas where the women go forever
And they never ever stop to ask why
My mother, she's a saviour of six foot of bad behaviour
With long, blond curly hair down to her thigh
Oh my mother
Oh my friends
Ask the angels, "Will I ever see heaven again?"
"Will I ever see even again?"
"Will I ever see even again?"
Punish them all, for they speak too much
Hate the world for what it did to us
Will I ever see heaven again?
Lyrics submitted by waywardgirl
Salinas Lyrics as written by Laura Beatrice Marling
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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I am from Salinas where the women go forever And they never ever to stop to ask why My mother was a saviour of six foot of bad behaviour With long, blond curly hair down to her thigh
Oh my mother Oh my friends Ask the angels "Will I ever see heaven again?"
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