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.
A bout of deep depression
Can't seem to move it forward
My lying eyes lie awake
Not sure what I am after
I never died before
Can't help what happened yesterday
I never stoned the crow, no
Flit through endless stories
A lifetime of hand-written pain
No one can share this hurt that is mine, mine, mine
I never died before
Can't be what happened yesterday
I shouldn't stone the crow, no
Ride on!
Same old city (same old city)
Same old shame
No matter how I try, no matter what I say
I'm blamed, I'm shamed, I'm judged unfairly
So now I've died before
It feels as bad as yesterday
I never stoned the crow, no
You too have died before
I fought as hard as yesterday
I never stoned the crow
Stoned the crow, no, no
Crush
Can't seem to move it forward
My lying eyes lie awake
Not sure what I am after
I never died before
Can't help what happened yesterday
I never stoned the crow, no
Flit through endless stories
A lifetime of hand-written pain
No one can share this hurt that is mine, mine, mine
I never died before
Can't be what happened yesterday
I shouldn't stone the crow, no
Ride on!
Same old city (same old city)
Same old shame
No matter how I try, no matter what I say
I'm blamed, I'm shamed, I'm judged unfairly
So now I've died before
It feels as bad as yesterday
I never stoned the crow, no
You too have died before
I fought as hard as yesterday
I never stoned the crow
Stoned the crow, no, no
Crush
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Stone the Crow Lyrics as written by Pepper Keenan Philip Anselmo
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I think like Ruxi said the song is about the depression in Phil's life and the feelings of hostility he seemed to breed - "no matter what I say, I'm blamed, I'm shamed, I'm judged unfairly". Awesome fucking line.
He also keeps talking about "yesterday" so I think it's also looking into the past - he's saying that he can't change the choices he's made or live in the past, but he's sunk to such deep pain that he feels like the person that he was is dying. When he says "I've never died before" it's in the context of "... but now I am", like he says in the last part of the song, "so now I've died before". He doesn't know who he is anymore.
And "stone the crow" I think you can take as a metaphor for death. In the first verse it has the same meaning "never died before/never stoned the crow", and in the second verse he says "I should've stoned the crow" which I guess could mean two things: he should have ended his life, or (more positive) just said fuck it and done something to change his life, "killed" off his current way of living before things sank to the way they are in the song.
The last 4 lines.... I don't know, maybe he is saying to the people who blame, shame and judge him unfairly that they are dead to him too. He "thought it sown as yesterday" -- he has never given two shits about forgetting who these people are. And then he ends again on "I never stoned the crow" - he thinks to himself despite all his shit and "killing" those who rise against him, he still hasn't sorted his own life out yet.