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.
My name spells joy
I can't remember darkness
Except a dream you saved my life
Do you wonder what you saw
Floating softly at the Nile's edge?
Wandering eyes
Commitments never can last
It feels so cold to know our name
I've never known you and I never will
What difference does indifference take?
Do you regret what you saw
Floating softly at the Nile's edge?
Alone
Do you regre,
Regret what you did
Running softly,
Softly from the Nile's edge?
Alone
Alone
I can't remember darkness
Except a dream you saved my life
Do you wonder what you saw
Floating softly at the Nile's edge?
Wandering eyes
Commitments never can last
It feels so cold to know our name
I've never known you and I never will
What difference does indifference take?
Do you regret what you saw
Floating softly at the Nile's edge?
Alone
Do you regre,
Regret what you did
Running softly,
Softly from the Nile's edge?
Alone
Alone
Lyrics submitted by nonemoreblack
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The Prophet Moses was placed in a basket on the river of the Nile by his parents when the Egyptians decided to kill every Jewish male child, because they feared an uprising of the Jewish slaves. Because his parents obviously didn't want him to suffer that fate, they placed him in a basket and drifted him down the river, in hopes he would be spared, he was found and eventually taken in by the Pharoah's wife or daughter, which one escapes me now.
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It's asking his father if he feels regret or sorrow for what he did in abandnoning him. Much like Moses parents as they watched him float down the river in a basket
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