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.
When you are lost
You climb to the firing range
Without a lantern in your life
But the star of the age
And in the bright flash
An emptiness burns away
You trade the darkness of your mind
For the star of the age
Surging away from the tower's embrace
You race like a tiger
Relentlessly lashing the days
And leave, in the wake of our wandering lives
The signs we are aging
The houses we drowned in the lake
While a shining world
Believes that, inside of days
All the darkness of our lives
will meet the star of the age
While the buildings fall
In silence and reverie
Among the islands of our minds
Among the stars of the age
Oh shining world!
Where nothing is happening
But what is in our minds
The swelling stars of the age
But still my love
the only relieving light
In the spinning darkness of our lives
Is when I see you again
In the moonlight
In the starlight
In the sunlight
And I believe it again
You climb to the firing range
Without a lantern in your life
But the star of the age
And in the bright flash
An emptiness burns away
You trade the darkness of your mind
For the star of the age
Surging away from the tower's embrace
You race like a tiger
Relentlessly lashing the days
And leave, in the wake of our wandering lives
The signs we are aging
The houses we drowned in the lake
While a shining world
Believes that, inside of days
All the darkness of our lives
will meet the star of the age
While the buildings fall
In silence and reverie
Among the islands of our minds
Among the stars of the age
Oh shining world!
Where nothing is happening
But what is in our minds
The swelling stars of the age
But still my love
the only relieving light
In the spinning darkness of our lives
Is when I see you again
In the moonlight
In the starlight
In the sunlight
And I believe it again
Lyrics submitted by marabou22, edited by inverarity
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Love every line in the song. Few songs can make me feel this way...
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what are the stars of our age?
@brandonjpj The will to move forward, to chose love instead of hate, to transcend the world going on around us...