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.
Driving past hotels
In the night your words don't sit well
How can I feel free
When all I want to be
Is by your side in that municipality
Up in that farm land
Past the houses and gardens
Dozens of shade trees
Are waiting there for me
But that's not anything like my reality
To be by your side in that municipality
That's not anything like my reality
In the night your words don't sit well
How can I feel free
When all I want to be
Is by your side in that municipality
Up in that farm land
Past the houses and gardens
Dozens of shade trees
Are waiting there for me
But that's not anything like my reality
To be by your side in that municipality
That's not anything like my reality
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Driving past hotels In the night Your words don't sit well
How can I feel free? When all I want to be Is by your side In that municipality
Open that farm land Past the houses and gardens Dozens of shade trees Are waiting there for me
That's not anything like my reality
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That's not anything like my reality
Seems perfect, thanks!
although traveling is great and you get to see a lot of new and cool stuff, that's not the life you live everyday, it's often very hasty. you meet people, leave them, you see things, leave them and so it goes. Back home, back in your everyday life, that's where your heart lies, the people you know, the things you know. All of the people and all of the small moments in your everyday life means so much more than one thinks.
(Sorry for bad english, I tried my best)
The meaning is pretty obvious. He wants to live his life and be happy and free, but without the girl he loves, he feels trapped and alone. Nothing will make him happy, only by having her at his side will he be able to move on in his life.
"How can I feel free? When all I want to be Is by your side"
Many people feel this way, including me, that is why this song resonates with me.
sometimes you do love someone but you're stuck in a routine and, once you see some sort of possibility of a new life, you fall in love with it. however, things comes to sense "that's not anything like my reality"... you can't run away from who you are.