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.
Don't you hit that defenseless child
What gives you that empty right
Carry that for the rest of your life
Carry that for the rest of time
Did they hold you down oh yeah
Did they push you around oh yeah
Burning in the black sun
Like a jackle on the run
Burning in the black sun
Burning up in the black sun oh yeah
Rotten apples every one
Look at them
Look at them run
Guilty now for what they have done
Did they hold you down oh yeah
Did they push you around oh yeah
Burning in the black sun
Like a dog on the run
Burning in the black sun
Well the time has finally come oh yeah
Black sun
Like a jackel on the run oh yeah
Burning in the black, the black sun
Caught their vien,you've gone insane
You've lost your mind,you're not my kind
I hate your soul, you kill my fun
You did no good, you better run
Gonna get you down, gonna put you down
Gonna stick you in the ground
Gonna stick you in the ground
Gonna make you oh gonna make you whoa
Burning in the black sun black sun
Burning in the black sun
Don't you hit that defenseless child
What gives you that empty right
Burning in the black sun black sun
Like a dog on the run
Black sun
Yeah you were a bully
The universal bullies
Who's laughing at you now
Who's laughing at you now
You ain't got no hold on me
You ain't got no piece of me
You are lost in your own mind yes you are you're declining in
Oh yeah black sun
Black sun
What gives you that empty right
Carry that for the rest of your life
Carry that for the rest of time
Did they hold you down oh yeah
Did they push you around oh yeah
Burning in the black sun
Like a jackle on the run
Burning in the black sun
Burning up in the black sun oh yeah
Rotten apples every one
Look at them
Look at them run
Guilty now for what they have done
Did they hold you down oh yeah
Did they push you around oh yeah
Burning in the black sun
Like a dog on the run
Burning in the black sun
Well the time has finally come oh yeah
Black sun
Like a jackel on the run oh yeah
Burning in the black, the black sun
Caught their vien,you've gone insane
You've lost your mind,you're not my kind
I hate your soul, you kill my fun
You did no good, you better run
Gonna get you down, gonna put you down
Gonna stick you in the ground
Gonna stick you in the ground
Gonna make you oh gonna make you whoa
Burning in the black sun black sun
Burning in the black sun
Don't you hit that defenseless child
What gives you that empty right
Burning in the black sun black sun
Like a dog on the run
Black sun
Yeah you were a bully
The universal bullies
Who's laughing at you now
Who's laughing at you now
You ain't got no hold on me
You ain't got no piece of me
You are lost in your own mind yes you are you're declining in
Oh yeah black sun
Black sun
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