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.
The spark in his eye was sign he was alive
I cleaned his feet to be complete
I drank from the wine that came from inside
The heart of his meat and the splurge of his sweet
That's when the ceremony starts
I hold the cup to my breast as he wets my neck
There's a book and a blade then to alternate
Think of the wind in his eyes and of suicide
With poppers blind, it's wedged inside
I beg and plead to be underneath
The man with bread who wakens me
He curls his breath and turns the dead
It winds inside to fertilize
That's when the ceremony starts
With a wreath and a sigh and a veil and a thigh
The comfort brief, impure, and sweet
To burn incense and break the bread
With honey spread, his warmth, his chest
He blushes and bleeds, he breathes then feeds
It was the spark in his eye that was sign he'd survived
That's when the ceremony starts
It was the spark in his eye that was sign he'd survived
I cleaned his feet to be complete
I drank from the wine that came from inside
The heart of his meat and the splurge of his sweet
That's when the ceremony starts
I hold the cup to my breast as he wets my neck
There's a book and a blade then to alternate
Think of the wind in his eyes and of suicide
With poppers blind, it's wedged inside
I beg and plead to be underneath
The man with bread who wakens me
He curls his breath and turns the dead
It winds inside to fertilize
That's when the ceremony starts
With a wreath and a sigh and a veil and a thigh
The comfort brief, impure, and sweet
To burn incense and break the bread
With honey spread, his warmth, his chest
He blushes and bleeds, he breathes then feeds
It was the spark in his eye that was sign he'd survived
That's when the ceremony starts
It was the spark in his eye that was sign he'd survived
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
That's When the Ceremony Starts Lyrics as written by Joel Gibb
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