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.
Would you let me take control
if i told you that i would never love another?
Build a prison for your soul,
with the shelter i provide,
surely we can live forever.
Feel addiction take control, i know you'll runaway.
Reality is just fantasy again.
If i could penetrate your soul,
i'd help you find a way to make fantasy, reality again.
Would you let me take you home?
Fulfill my every need,
keep you in this spell you're under.
Cause now's the time to let you know,
If you only take my hand, never will there be another.
Hold you down again, i won't let you breathe.
I see redemption in your eyes
although i always seem to make you cry
So high off the pain that i give to you,
hold you down till you can't breathe.
You can't leave or perceive that you're better off without me.
I'll cut you down before you get a chance to doubt me.
No love is sicker than the one we found,
keep a frown on your face and you'll never replace me.
Feel addiction take control, i know you'll runaway.
Reality is just fantasy again.
If i could penetrate your soul,
i'd help you find a way to make fantasy, reality again.
if i told you that i would never love another?
Build a prison for your soul,
with the shelter i provide,
surely we can live forever.
Feel addiction take control, i know you'll runaway.
Reality is just fantasy again.
If i could penetrate your soul,
i'd help you find a way to make fantasy, reality again.
Would you let me take you home?
Fulfill my every need,
keep you in this spell you're under.
Cause now's the time to let you know,
If you only take my hand, never will there be another.
Hold you down again, i won't let you breathe.
I see redemption in your eyes
although i always seem to make you cry
So high off the pain that i give to you,
hold you down till you can't breathe.
You can't leave or perceive that you're better off without me.
I'll cut you down before you get a chance to doubt me.
No love is sicker than the one we found,
keep a frown on your face and you'll never replace me.
Feel addiction take control, i know you'll runaway.
Reality is just fantasy again.
If i could penetrate your soul,
i'd help you find a way to make fantasy, reality again.
Lyrics submitted by zeroh-
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Godfearingone nice effort and it is cool that you but a whole lot of thought into and you are religious and all that stuff but check out the 3rd strike website and there is a couple quotes that talk about this song. It has nothing to do with god. Sorry bud but all things in life don't relate to god. Don't take this personal because I am a church goer myself, but Jesus may love you, but too much of him may blind you too.
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