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.
On a dark night I will lie in wait for a single girl to pass
The terror incurred makes my heart beat so fast
To see the look of fear and desperation as they scream
Such power from insignificance for me is a dream
For that beautiful moment I will always live
When in terror rapt attention to me they give
A failure, a nothing, at that moment I am not
My power it is absolute their attention to the fact
My cock rises momentously, with hatred I do thrust
Revenge for every slight the fuel of my lust
How sweet is my revenge on this world which did not
Treat me as significant so now my load is shot
And I curse this world as my victim I do rape
My power absolute on her, on the floor her head I scrape
So she is a victim of my inferiority
How desperate are her cries, her head it starts to bleed
I put my hands around her throat as she starts to scream
And threaten the grim reaper will her life redeem
So world I am of value, that is your mistake
Each time that you shun me another girl I rape
Her obedience to me is total you will find
Or I will slash her tongue and eyes, she’ll be mute and blind
So world which treats me with such cruel neglect
Look how I the rapist my victim does respect
Every action obedience I command
Or to her I will wreak such harm
And I am a fair man if servitude they display
Perhaps with my life I will not slash away
But if in any way they me disrespect
Then their life I will neglect
The terror incurred makes my heart beat so fast
To see the look of fear and desperation as they scream
Such power from insignificance for me is a dream
For that beautiful moment I will always live
When in terror rapt attention to me they give
A failure, a nothing, at that moment I am not
My power it is absolute their attention to the fact
My cock rises momentously, with hatred I do thrust
Revenge for every slight the fuel of my lust
How sweet is my revenge on this world which did not
Treat me as significant so now my load is shot
And I curse this world as my victim I do rape
My power absolute on her, on the floor her head I scrape
So she is a victim of my inferiority
How desperate are her cries, her head it starts to bleed
I put my hands around her throat as she starts to scream
And threaten the grim reaper will her life redeem
So world I am of value, that is your mistake
Each time that you shun me another girl I rape
Her obedience to me is total you will find
Or I will slash her tongue and eyes, she’ll be mute and blind
So world which treats me with such cruel neglect
Look how I the rapist my victim does respect
Every action obedience I command
Or to her I will wreak such harm
And I am a fair man if servitude they display
Perhaps with my life I will not slash away
But if in any way they me disrespect
Then their life I will neglect
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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