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.
If we all stood up to be entirely us entirely free,
how would our society survive itself eventually?
And if we all stood up today to fight the walls inside our heads,
how would our society be?
We'll never see, 'cause we restrict ourselves inside our heads
We socialize ourselves until we're dead.
We'll never be ourselves, and that's a fact, 'cause we just can't see!
This life to me is like a flower like a tree,
you cut your roots, you think you're free
This life you'll see, just like flower like a tree,
if you cut your roots, you will no longer be!
If we all came to agree to live our lives in harmony and to defy reality how would it change our destiny?
If we all were free to choose,
if we're to win or we're to lose,
how would our society be?
We'll never see, 'cause we restrict ourselves inside our heads
We socialize ourselves until we're dead
We'll never be ourselves,
and that's a fact, because we're so afraid!
We're born in this world to be another part of this society with no room at all for us to be what we had hoped to be
Restrict ourselves inside our heads,
we socialize until we're dead,
we can't be free, and that's a fact!
how would our society survive itself eventually?
And if we all stood up today to fight the walls inside our heads,
how would our society be?
We'll never see, 'cause we restrict ourselves inside our heads
We socialize ourselves until we're dead.
We'll never be ourselves, and that's a fact, 'cause we just can't see!
This life to me is like a flower like a tree,
you cut your roots, you think you're free
This life you'll see, just like flower like a tree,
if you cut your roots, you will no longer be!
If we all came to agree to live our lives in harmony and to defy reality how would it change our destiny?
If we all were free to choose,
if we're to win or we're to lose,
how would our society be?
We'll never see, 'cause we restrict ourselves inside our heads
We socialize ourselves until we're dead
We'll never be ourselves,
and that's a fact, because we're so afraid!
We're born in this world to be another part of this society with no room at all for us to be what we had hoped to be
Restrict ourselves inside our heads,
we socialize until we're dead,
we can't be free, and that's a fact!
Lyrics submitted by black_cow_of_death
This Life Lyrics as written by Claus Grabke Axel Hilgenstohler
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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