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.
Are you asleep?
Are you in a dream?
The copper shades of a morning
Distant lights beckon and fade
Unwritten songs of another day
I fear that you would never be
Every song in the world for me
Took your hand, led you astray
You cursed the worlds I longed to save
Is heaven to you a perfect place?
The look of sorrow on a sufferer's face
A field of lives to sow and to reap
That some of us will never see?
And why is it I didn't feel the same?
Are my longings to be blamed
For not seeing heaven like you would see?
Why is a song the world for me?
What is forgiveness?
It's just a dream
What is forgiveness?
It's everything
Are you in a dream?
The copper shades of a morning
Distant lights beckon and fade
Unwritten songs of another day
I fear that you would never be
Every song in the world for me
Took your hand, led you astray
You cursed the worlds I longed to save
Is heaven to you a perfect place?
The look of sorrow on a sufferer's face
A field of lives to sow and to reap
That some of us will never see?
And why is it I didn't feel the same?
Are my longings to be blamed
For not seeing heaven like you would see?
Why is a song the world for me?
What is forgiveness?
It's just a dream
What is forgiveness?
It's everything
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