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.
("If you think your marriage is so great,
why the fuck are you turning to other people's wives for comfort?"
"Can, can I tell you what, what was going on here?"
"Yeah, please do")
Did he really get to take you home?
I'm surprised that you chose him
Surprised that I'm not in a halfway home
I'm not surprised I never saw you alone
When they brought me home
So who does this separation work for?
So which one of us will wage war? War
It's not about the feelings that we shared before
no 'cause your words don't calm anymore
Gah, no more, what did you want me for?
How do you call
What we have love when you don't even notice
The look upon my face
Yeah I've done this before
You'll be sorrier when I'm gone
Yeah you waited too long
And did you really think I'd take it,
When information fabricated
Look I give you credit for pathetically
thinking that you could hurt this
Up, watch this, she turns on my face
A sage little house invading your space
Helpless, you know that I'm away
My truck sitting in a hotel crazy
I'm fine on the phone
Freaking like it's telling me there's something wrong,
Or right you don't I need to know
How do you call
What we have love when you don't even notice
The look upon my face
Yeah I've done this before
You'll be sorrier when I'm gone
Yeah you waited too long
How do you call
What we have love when you don't even notice
The look upon my face
Yeah I've done this before
You'll be sorrier when I'm gone
Yeah you waited too
Yeah you waited too long
This is urgent
Call 'em emergencies
I don't know how to stop 'em
My cap gun and the pistol
You fill your clip with lies
Then load each one and fire right over my head
I need a finish line, this pressures too high
Yeah I should have seen the end was coming
sooner than they ever did
Reach down to the pit of my soul
I found things that I didn't wanna know with her
I guess the wait is over
How do you call
What we have love when you don't even notice
The look upon my face
Yeah I've done this before
You'll be sorrier when I'm gone
Yeah you waited too long
Oh, how do you call
What we have love when you don't even notice
The look upon my face
Yeah I've done this before
You'll be sorrier when I'm gone
Yeah you waited too long
why the fuck are you turning to other people's wives for comfort?"
"Can, can I tell you what, what was going on here?"
"Yeah, please do")
Did he really get to take you home?
I'm surprised that you chose him
Surprised that I'm not in a halfway home
I'm not surprised I never saw you alone
When they brought me home
So who does this separation work for?
So which one of us will wage war? War
It's not about the feelings that we shared before
no 'cause your words don't calm anymore
Gah, no more, what did you want me for?
How do you call
What we have love when you don't even notice
The look upon my face
Yeah I've done this before
You'll be sorrier when I'm gone
Yeah you waited too long
And did you really think I'd take it,
When information fabricated
Look I give you credit for pathetically
thinking that you could hurt this
Up, watch this, she turns on my face
A sage little house invading your space
Helpless, you know that I'm away
My truck sitting in a hotel crazy
I'm fine on the phone
Freaking like it's telling me there's something wrong,
Or right you don't I need to know
How do you call
What we have love when you don't even notice
The look upon my face
Yeah I've done this before
You'll be sorrier when I'm gone
Yeah you waited too long
How do you call
What we have love when you don't even notice
The look upon my face
Yeah I've done this before
You'll be sorrier when I'm gone
Yeah you waited too
Yeah you waited too long
This is urgent
Call 'em emergencies
I don't know how to stop 'em
My cap gun and the pistol
You fill your clip with lies
Then load each one and fire right over my head
I need a finish line, this pressures too high
Yeah I should have seen the end was coming
sooner than they ever did
Reach down to the pit of my soul
I found things that I didn't wanna know with her
I guess the wait is over
How do you call
What we have love when you don't even notice
The look upon my face
Yeah I've done this before
You'll be sorrier when I'm gone
Yeah you waited too long
Oh, how do you call
What we have love when you don't even notice
The look upon my face
Yeah I've done this before
You'll be sorrier when I'm gone
Yeah you waited too long
Lyrics submitted by DeLyriusylum, edited by RebelParty
You Waited Too Long Lyrics as written by Timothy Palmer Justin Furstenfeld
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