Matt Shadows their lead singer says the song was written as per request from the developers of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. Watching the initial trailers for the game & looking at production sketches reminded him of the 'S-Town' podcast & its main protagonist, John B. McLemore. Matt also comments specifically on the lyrics: "I decided that the lyrics would shadow McLemore's life." In 2012, antiquarian horologist John B. McLemore sent an email to the staff of the show 'This American Life' asking them to investigate an alleged murder in his hometown of Woodstock, Alabama, a place McLemore claimed to despise. After a year of exchanging emails & several months of conversation with McLemore, producer Brian Reed traveled to Woodstock to investigate. Reed investigated the crime & eventually found that no such murder took place, though he struck up a friendship with the depressed but colorful character of McLemore. He recorded conversations with McLemore & other people in Woodstock. McLemore killed himself by drinking potassium cyanide on June 22, 2015 while the podcast was still in production. In the narrative of the podcast, this occurs at the end of the second episode; subsequent episodes deal with the fallout from McLemore's death while exploring more of McLemore's life & character.
What's the use in trying
If all my senses say no place exists for you
What's the use in holding out my arms
I couldn't find reasons if I tried to
What's the use in floating
If all it does is tell you someone's under you
What's the use in being if I learn
To be neglectful to all the things that mean the most to most of you
But I can hear me say
More than likely, I'm the one you're living for
If I find out I am
Then I'll finally understand when I say
More than likely, I'm the one you're living for
More than likely
Living for
More than likely
Living for
What's the use in praying (tell me)
For all the things that mean so much to none of you
What's the use in pouring out my heart
Into situations I could cry through
Oh what's the use in closing
All the doors that let the loving into you
What's the use of loving if I learn
Not to feel anything at all even if it means the most to you
But I can hear me say
More than likely, I'm the one you're living for
If I find out I am
Then I'll finally understand when I say
More than likely, I'm the one you're living for
Oh, you're living for
I'm the one you're living for
Even if you find
That I'm transcending most of my mind
Through the often closing doors
Of what's to come and what's in store, oh yeah
Even if because
You find I'm sending most of my love
To the often closed minds
That must inquire, what you're living for
What you're living for
What you're living for, oh
What's the use in clinging (let go)
To all the hopes that leave you somewhere next to lies
What's the use in biding all my time
To try and figure out the frame that likes to
Communicate through signs
But I can hear me say
More than likely, I'm the one you're living for
If I find out I am
Then I'll finally understand when I say
More than likely, I'm the one you're living for
More than likely
What you're living for
More than likely
Living for
What you're living for
What you're living for, oh
More than likely, I'm the one you're living for
Oh, oh you're living for
What you're living for
Living for, yeah
I'm the one you're living for
If all my senses say no place exists for you
What's the use in holding out my arms
I couldn't find reasons if I tried to
What's the use in floating
If all it does is tell you someone's under you
What's the use in being if I learn
To be neglectful to all the things that mean the most to most of you
But I can hear me say
More than likely, I'm the one you're living for
If I find out I am
Then I'll finally understand when I say
More than likely, I'm the one you're living for
More than likely
Living for
More than likely
Living for
What's the use in praying (tell me)
For all the things that mean so much to none of you
What's the use in pouring out my heart
Into situations I could cry through
Oh what's the use in closing
All the doors that let the loving into you
What's the use of loving if I learn
Not to feel anything at all even if it means the most to you
But I can hear me say
More than likely, I'm the one you're living for
If I find out I am
Then I'll finally understand when I say
More than likely, I'm the one you're living for
Oh, you're living for
I'm the one you're living for
Even if you find
That I'm transcending most of my mind
Through the often closing doors
Of what's to come and what's in store, oh yeah
Even if because
You find I'm sending most of my love
To the often closed minds
That must inquire, what you're living for
What you're living for
What you're living for, oh
What's the use in clinging (let go)
To all the hopes that leave you somewhere next to lies
What's the use in biding all my time
To try and figure out the frame that likes to
Communicate through signs
But I can hear me say
More than likely, I'm the one you're living for
If I find out I am
Then I'll finally understand when I say
More than likely, I'm the one you're living for
More than likely
What you're living for
More than likely
Living for
What you're living for
What you're living for, oh
More than likely, I'm the one you're living for
Oh, oh you're living for
What you're living for
Living for, yeah
I'm the one you're living for
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