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.
Bring snowy lady with the laughing, spread
your sailing angels over me
Tell a tale of old sinfuls, look for you to change
their face
Do not cry, for all your leaden tears
graced a lorded man whose gift was all too free
He came to fall upon a faithless smile
Leaning eyes towards the clay
And on my stone there where the flowers lie
Sleep the growing years of my dusty day
Gone the time of a heathen child to the godly
grounds to play
Weep the women on a watery leaf
Caught in browning robe all my silent breath
I come to rise upon the Heaven Heath
With a timeless child to pay
Forget the garden on my graceless youth
Glimpse the wilting rose in my faded eye
Slip the shade from my shoulder for a
cobwebbed lake to catch
Bleed your soul for my silvered fate
Take the ageing cross to bury days gone by
Receive my own into your Heaven Heath
Towards my waiting bed to lie
your sailing angels over me
Tell a tale of old sinfuls, look for you to change
their face
Do not cry, for all your leaden tears
graced a lorded man whose gift was all too free
He came to fall upon a faithless smile
Leaning eyes towards the clay
And on my stone there where the flowers lie
Sleep the growing years of my dusty day
Gone the time of a heathen child to the godly
grounds to play
Weep the women on a watery leaf
Caught in browning robe all my silent breath
I come to rise upon the Heaven Heath
With a timeless child to pay
Forget the garden on my graceless youth
Glimpse the wilting rose in my faded eye
Slip the shade from my shoulder for a
cobwebbed lake to catch
Bleed your soul for my silvered fate
Take the ageing cross to bury days gone by
Receive my own into your Heaven Heath
Towards my waiting bed to lie
Lyrics submitted by Opethfanatic89
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