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 don’t know if maybe you thought my attention span
Lacked what it needed to
Listen to you tell me all that you wanted to
Say your CD arrived
Yesterday Morning, I've listened to it seven
Times since I've opened it
How do you feel the way I do
Effortless production, guitar tracks and bass in your voice
Is a beautiful
Way to say everything words couldn’t say on their own
A few seconds of
Your left hand shaking, the sounds of the fretboard, I know
It was hard but I’d
Love you to feel the way I do
Seventy million times I have listened to you
Put your love into
Words, finely structuring everything you wanted to
It’s a funny thing
Every day my ears and your mouth are never apart
And you know
If a car came from nowhere I’d die with the sun in my heart.
Lacked what it needed to
Listen to you tell me all that you wanted to
Say your CD arrived
Yesterday Morning, I've listened to it seven
Times since I've opened it
How do you feel the way I do
Effortless production, guitar tracks and bass in your voice
Is a beautiful
Way to say everything words couldn’t say on their own
A few seconds of
Your left hand shaking, the sounds of the fretboard, I know
It was hard but I’d
Love you to feel the way I do
Seventy million times I have listened to you
Put your love into
Words, finely structuring everything you wanted to
It’s a funny thing
Every day my ears and your mouth are never apart
And you know
If a car came from nowhere I’d die with the sun in my heart.
Lyrics submitted by mister care-too-much
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