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.
The lunar backbone stands straight and alert for a last time
The mammal feathers are revamped just for this last night
Mouthless children are breastfed with their own words
The essence of their souls escaping through their giant bones
you will be paralyzed
made to be believed
broken inside to survive
and to watch over me
archangel- of no use and no form
archangel- suffocating alone
multiple wounds reach the heat of an absolute zero
the eaten fluids, the flesh of the conventional hero
Heavenly levels on a full blast of pleasure but minimum pain
Injected wings rip backflesh and go inside again
Mouthless children suffocate
with their ancient words,
their mud-dimensional world
lactating from their shrinking bones
you will be paralyzed
the corrupted seed
broken inside to survive
I will laugh at all this
archangel- with no use and no form
archangel- suffocating with blood
the eternal spectator stares at this and improvises
his holy centralbone always on a rise, always on a rise
archangel- of no use and no form
archangel- suffocating with words
The mammal feathers are revamped just for this last night
Mouthless children are breastfed with their own words
The essence of their souls escaping through their giant bones
you will be paralyzed
made to be believed
broken inside to survive
and to watch over me
archangel- of no use and no form
archangel- suffocating alone
multiple wounds reach the heat of an absolute zero
the eaten fluids, the flesh of the conventional hero
Heavenly levels on a full blast of pleasure but minimum pain
Injected wings rip backflesh and go inside again
Mouthless children suffocate
with their ancient words,
their mud-dimensional world
lactating from their shrinking bones
you will be paralyzed
the corrupted seed
broken inside to survive
I will laugh at all this
archangel- with no use and no form
archangel- suffocating with blood
the eternal spectator stares at this and improvises
his holy centralbone always on a rise, always on a rise
archangel- of no use and no form
archangel- suffocating with words
Lyrics submitted by Idan
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