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.
A trivial and tangled bedroom floor.
Wait until the sun finally sets before
You climb the stairs to an apartment
That you don't call home anymore.
You put your fingers to your temple
In the shape of what resembles
The punchline to your way out.
Get me out
I just want to disappear.
Let me go
Before I burn us both to the ground.
Yesterday forgets you
Before you have the chance to do the same.
I see how much time you spend breaking
Your own heart over this
Right on cue
Every ghost you know comes right back to haunt you.
Well I am the question
And you are the answer.
Who knew that those things just don't fit together
So I shake in salt lakes
Because I can't explain
You wouldn't understand anyway.
Get me out
I just want to disappear
Let me go
Before I burn us both to the ground.
Do you recall the summer
Where everything you did
Was sponsored by your cigarettes
And thoughts in your head
And all you talked about were ways to motivate yourself
To leave the house at least
Until you gave yourself a reason to live
But yesterday forgets you
Before you have the chance to do the same.
Wait until the sun finally sets before
You climb the stairs to an apartment
That you don't call home anymore.
You put your fingers to your temple
In the shape of what resembles
The punchline to your way out.
Get me out
I just want to disappear.
Let me go
Before I burn us both to the ground.
Yesterday forgets you
Before you have the chance to do the same.
I see how much time you spend breaking
Your own heart over this
Right on cue
Every ghost you know comes right back to haunt you.
Well I am the question
And you are the answer.
Who knew that those things just don't fit together
So I shake in salt lakes
Because I can't explain
You wouldn't understand anyway.
Get me out
I just want to disappear
Let me go
Before I burn us both to the ground.
Do you recall the summer
Where everything you did
Was sponsored by your cigarettes
And thoughts in your head
And all you talked about were ways to motivate yourself
To leave the house at least
Until you gave yourself a reason to live
But yesterday forgets you
Before you have the chance to do the same.
Lyrics submitted by Skoobasteve24
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