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.
In the deep south of heaven,
On the wavering line where Tennessee will leave just in time.
I'm writing it down,
It will be different soon,
You look amazing stuck between me and the moon.
I know bridges and houses are learning to fly,
Only secretly so we won't know why.
Good for them, everyone ends.
In the deep blue sea morning,
There's catfish waiting to be born,
But they know how it happens tonight is all to them.
I've written it down in the late late after noons,
"street names are changing and I will follow suit."
I think that's exciting and I think that's crazy.
Thinking of waiting here in the deep south.
On the wavering line where Tennessee will leave just in time.
I'm writing it down,
It will be different soon,
You look amazing stuck between me and the moon.
I know bridges and houses are learning to fly,
Only secretly so we won't know why.
Good for them, everyone ends.
In the deep blue sea morning,
There's catfish waiting to be born,
But they know how it happens tonight is all to them.
I've written it down in the late late after noons,
"street names are changing and I will follow suit."
I think that's exciting and I think that's crazy.
Thinking of waiting here in the deep south.
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I LOVE THIS SONG!
this song is awsome, this band is great ;D
<i>you look amazing stuck between me and the moon.</i> davey writes some excellent lyrics.
yes, davey is certainly the tops! i think i've been in between a boy and the moon before, butb any haven't been clever enough to say it that way...haha
"street names are changing and I will follow suit" i love his seemingly seamless transitions.