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.
She comes like a rising sea
She moves like a flood plane river
Seven vales and a golden bead
She has all that I could give her
My future in her tea leaf eyes
She's the hole in my disguise
She can strangle my addictions
Lost among the chosen few
Liberated by the view
Of a million open souls
Round and round I'm off the ground
And I can't even hear the sound
Of the boy in me
As I break free
Ooh I'm flying
And her wind will carry me through this life
Midnight on a rising sea
Moonlight on a flood plane river
Seven strands from a golden dream
Seven tides wash the world I give her
She breaks a hole in my defenses
Overtaking all my trenches
She can strangle my addictions
Lost among the chosen few
Liberated by the view
Of a million open souls
Round and round I'm in the air
So up above and unaware of the storm in me
As I break free
She moves like a flood plane river
Seven vales and a golden bead
She has all that I could give her
My future in her tea leaf eyes
She's the hole in my disguise
She can strangle my addictions
Lost among the chosen few
Liberated by the view
Of a million open souls
Round and round I'm off the ground
And I can't even hear the sound
Of the boy in me
As I break free
Ooh I'm flying
And her wind will carry me through this life
Midnight on a rising sea
Moonlight on a flood plane river
Seven strands from a golden dream
Seven tides wash the world I give her
She breaks a hole in my defenses
Overtaking all my trenches
She can strangle my addictions
Lost among the chosen few
Liberated by the view
Of a million open souls
Round and round I'm in the air
So up above and unaware of the storm in me
As I break free
Lyrics submitted by strawberygashs
Flying Lyrics as written by Chris Isaak
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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