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.
There were nights and mornings
When you come to me
Found your way into my bones, my joints
Into my veins
Like an animal you coiled your darkness around me
You spelled your name in charcoal
All over my body
But these days
I just walk with you
These days
I let you stay
A little further away
But I walk with you
These days
I'll let you stay
There were summer days and nights
When I was blind to you
You were quiet and you were still
Even when the moon was full
My temporary state of lightness would scare me
After all, I was sure
You were most wrong then, I was daring
But these days
I just walk with you
These days
I let you stay
These days
I just talk with you
These days
I let you stay
A little further away
But I walk with you
These days
I let you stay
The things you've shown me over the years
The roads you blocked and how you'll define me
These days
I just walk with you
These days
I let you stay
These days
I just talk with you
These days, these days
When you come to me
Found your way into my bones, my joints
Into my veins
Like an animal you coiled your darkness around me
You spelled your name in charcoal
All over my body
But these days
I just walk with you
These days
I let you stay
A little further away
But I walk with you
These days
I'll let you stay
There were summer days and nights
When I was blind to you
You were quiet and you were still
Even when the moon was full
My temporary state of lightness would scare me
After all, I was sure
You were most wrong then, I was daring
But these days
I just walk with you
These days
I let you stay
These days
I just talk with you
These days
I let you stay
A little further away
But I walk with you
These days
I let you stay
The things you've shown me over the years
The roads you blocked and how you'll define me
These days
I just walk with you
These days
I let you stay
These days
I just talk with you
These days, these days
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I went there of my own free will. I went there in my finest gown, With my rarest Jewels With my Queen of Heaven crown. In the Underworld At each of the Seven Gates I was stripped Seven times Of all I thought I was Till I stood bare in who I really am. Then I saw Her She was huge and dark and smelly and hairy with a lion’s head and lion’s claws devouring everything before Her Ereskigal, my sister She was all that I am not All that I have hidden All that I have buried She is what I have denied Ereskigal, my sister Eriskigal, my shadow Eriskigal, my self
I keep resubmitting the lyrics and it keeps changing them back? I don't get it because the version here is very clearly wrong.
There were nights and mornings When you CLUNG to me**
And:
After all you were more strong then, I was daring**
My sister just opened my eyes about the meaning of this song. She said Ane Brun sings about a disease or a medical condition (maybe with no cure invented). At first you fight, you deny to accept it, but lately (these days) you finally start accepting it and learn to live with it, bringing it with you. So this song is about the acceptance of an incurable disease or a medical condition, as HIV and AIDS for example.