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.
The ruins shall bear witness to what I've become
Dammed by the riddles of shame
Now they lower me down into the mouth of flames
The disease now lives again
So, the thorn has grown since then
Animation of disgrace
From the years when I had a face
Long lost pictures come to life once more
The sewers of yesterday spreads its breath into this dream
The smell of dying colours, and illusions that bleed
The threads are all wearing thin
But still they let no sunshine in
Desolation comes alone
As the skin falls from our bones
Oblivion lies safe within these hands
A hangman shadow resting upon my back
Imprisonment - A godly state of being
Where time is merely a word existing in past tense
Feed the hole and welcome to my wound
Down the void of perception a shallow vision streams
Reality brings deception and dust of past dreams
The witness of my ruin came to follow me
The riddles soon perished in shame
As they lowered him down into the mouth of flames
The hunger claws inside
My innocence went with the tide
Served the agents of decay
Now watch impurity wash away
Dammed by the riddles of shame
Now they lower me down into the mouth of flames
The disease now lives again
So, the thorn has grown since then
Animation of disgrace
From the years when I had a face
Long lost pictures come to life once more
The sewers of yesterday spreads its breath into this dream
The smell of dying colours, and illusions that bleed
The threads are all wearing thin
But still they let no sunshine in
Desolation comes alone
As the skin falls from our bones
Oblivion lies safe within these hands
A hangman shadow resting upon my back
Imprisonment - A godly state of being
Where time is merely a word existing in past tense
Feed the hole and welcome to my wound
Down the void of perception a shallow vision streams
Reality brings deception and dust of past dreams
The witness of my ruin came to follow me
The riddles soon perished in shame
As they lowered him down into the mouth of flames
The hunger claws inside
My innocence went with the tide
Served the agents of decay
Now watch impurity wash away
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Hunger of the Innocent Lyrics as written by Mathias Lodmalm
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