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.
Blood and tears
Blood and tears
Since you've been gone
I hear you've been crying
Blood and tears
All alone
In your misery
So alone
Could you have
Been deceived
Since I've been gone
I hear you been crying
You cry a thousand tears
Darling don't despair
I know your heart still bleeds
Darling don't you care
There's blood in your tears
All alone
In your misery
So
All alone
You are lost
Endlessly
Since you've been gone
I hear you been crying
Blood and tears
Since you've been gone
I hear you've been crying
Blood and tears
All alone
In your misery
So alone
Could you have
Been deceived
Since I've been gone
I hear you been crying
You cry a thousand tears
Darling don't despair
I know your heart still bleeds
Darling don't you care
There's blood in your tears
All alone
In your misery
So
All alone
You are lost
Endlessly
Since you've been gone
I hear you been crying
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