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.
[Verse 1]
Don't mind as I listen
Blank straight into you
I'm glued
Fixated, lured
Swinging mood
Don't swim in the quite polluted slew
Liquid not blue
Murky mess infested with the flu
Depending on you to reside
[Chorus]
Inside the mainframe
Distorting the wavelength
The deeper the depth you go
Oh, the hotter she grows
Inside the mainframe
Distorting the wavelength
The deepest depth you can go
No more so she can hold
Suffer maybe mine
And depending on how deep I climb
She sure smells real good
Could be an illusion to assume your crooked mind
And if it is
And it doesn't mind, fine
These hasty fine designs
Scribbling null, undefined
Real lines
These hasty fine designs
Scribbling null, undefined
Real lines
[Verse 1]
So don't mind as I listen, blank
Straight into you
I'm glued
Fixated, lured
Swinging mood
Don't swim in the quite polluted slew
Liquid not blue
Murky mess infested with the flu
Depending on you to reside
[Verse 2]
'Cause everybody needs a house, a home
A house to have the most
A magazine to read
Antique furniture
And keep the cats off, so you collect no fur
A T.V. to space out, get out of your house
But except for me, I don't need very much
I keep a light load, I like to stay and touch
We use the words "please" and "thank you very much"
Thank you very much
And I'm keeping you in a cage
Until the next dinosaur age
We'll feed you Sphynx rats and sage
And use the energy from your waste to power the town
Where I feel trapped
[Chorus]
Inside the mainframe
Distorting the wavelength
The deeper the depth you go
Oh, the hotter she grows
Inside the mainframe
Distorting the wavelength
The deepest depth you can go
No more so she can hold
Suffer maybe mine
Depending on how deep I climb
She sure smells real good
Could be an illusion to assume your fucked-up mind
And if it is
Yeah, then it does my mind fine
These hasty fine designs
Scribbling null, undefined
Real lines
These hasty fine designs
Scribbling null, undefined
Real lines
Don't mind as I listen
Blank straight into you
I'm glued
Fixated, lured
Swinging mood
Don't swim in the quite polluted slew
Liquid not blue
Murky mess infested with the flu
Depending on you to reside
[Chorus]
Inside the mainframe
Distorting the wavelength
The deeper the depth you go
Oh, the hotter she grows
Inside the mainframe
Distorting the wavelength
The deepest depth you can go
No more so she can hold
Suffer maybe mine
And depending on how deep I climb
She sure smells real good
Could be an illusion to assume your crooked mind
And if it is
And it doesn't mind, fine
These hasty fine designs
Scribbling null, undefined
Real lines
These hasty fine designs
Scribbling null, undefined
Real lines
[Verse 1]
So don't mind as I listen, blank
Straight into you
I'm glued
Fixated, lured
Swinging mood
Don't swim in the quite polluted slew
Liquid not blue
Murky mess infested with the flu
Depending on you to reside
[Verse 2]
'Cause everybody needs a house, a home
A house to have the most
A magazine to read
Antique furniture
And keep the cats off, so you collect no fur
A T.V. to space out, get out of your house
But except for me, I don't need very much
I keep a light load, I like to stay and touch
We use the words "please" and "thank you very much"
Thank you very much
And I'm keeping you in a cage
Until the next dinosaur age
We'll feed you Sphynx rats and sage
And use the energy from your waste to power the town
Where I feel trapped
[Chorus]
Inside the mainframe
Distorting the wavelength
The deeper the depth you go
Oh, the hotter she grows
Inside the mainframe
Distorting the wavelength
The deepest depth you can go
No more so she can hold
Suffer maybe mine
Depending on how deep I climb
She sure smells real good
Could be an illusion to assume your fucked-up mind
And if it is
Yeah, then it does my mind fine
These hasty fine designs
Scribbling null, undefined
Real lines
These hasty fine designs
Scribbling null, undefined
Real lines
Lyrics submitted by Mystic Esoterica
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