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.
NO, somehow you somehow knew.
You said, you said you might be leaving.
You must be crazy, you'll live to one hundred and one.
Somehow you somehow knew.
You said you might be leaving.
I won't say goodbye, and I refuse to watch you die.
I won't forget.
You said you'll know.
You said, you said you'll go.
You must be crazy, to die is no cure at all.
Please don't go.
What you said, and it won't take too long.
If what you said was true, you said was true.
I won't say goodbye, and I refuse to watch you die.
Cause if you scream do something, please scream do something.
I won't say goodbye... I won't forget.
Please do something... scream do something.
In your dreams you don't need it, in your dreams you can't use it.
It won't take too long.
You said, you said you might be leaving.
You must be crazy, you'll live to one hundred and one.
Somehow you somehow knew.
You said you might be leaving.
I won't say goodbye, and I refuse to watch you die.
I won't forget.
You said you'll know.
You said, you said you'll go.
You must be crazy, to die is no cure at all.
Please don't go.
What you said, and it won't take too long.
If what you said was true, you said was true.
I won't say goodbye, and I refuse to watch you die.
Cause if you scream do something, please scream do something.
I won't say goodbye... I won't forget.
Please do something... scream do something.
In your dreams you don't need it, in your dreams you can't use it.
It won't take too long.
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