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.
Watch the skies dawning on you,
Soaring over country land.
Message comes from Kathmandu:
Sky is blue and clear.
Program your outing.
Gaze at clouds in this window pane.
Where is your wish going?
The wind to control you at night.
O
Orabibi
Orabibiba
Orabibi
Orabibaba
Orabibibabi
O
Orabibi
Orabibiba
Orabibi
Orabibaba
Orabibibabi
Lazing in the sun, we glide.
Soon you come from watch.
Touched, you save me just in time,
Storm is out to catch.
Program your chartering.
Gaze at clouds in this window pane.
Stay patched through onto me.
Crawling into trouble, that's plain!
O
Orabibi
Orabibiba
Orabibi
Orabibaba
Orabibibabi
O
Orabibi
Orabibiba
Orabibi
Orabibaba
Orabibibabi
Watch out! Storms in Kathmandu.
Calling from country land.
Message comes from Kathmandu:
Sky is blue and clear.
Program your outing.
Watching now your system for rains.
Clouds: forty stories!
(Don't come in again like that, it isn't funny,
And I pay someone else to make the orchestration!)
Oh, island of the soul,
Valleys hushed and white with snow.
Ireland's eye...
You'll linger with me 'til the day I die.
Oh, how it hurts to go.
The waters ebb and flow.
The changing seasons come and go.
Ireland's eye...
Forever reaching up into the sky,
Oh, how I'll miss you so.
The sunlight dancing on your rocky shores,
The moonlight playing upon the water.
Your memory will stay with me forever more,
Wherever I may roam.
Stay with my dreams, I will see you!
Safe in my heart I will keep you.
Soaring over country land.
Message comes from Kathmandu:
Sky is blue and clear.
Program your outing.
Gaze at clouds in this window pane.
Where is your wish going?
The wind to control you at night.
O
Orabibi
Orabibiba
Orabibi
Orabibaba
Orabibibabi
O
Orabibi
Orabibiba
Orabibi
Orabibaba
Orabibibabi
Lazing in the sun, we glide.
Soon you come from watch.
Touched, you save me just in time,
Storm is out to catch.
Program your chartering.
Gaze at clouds in this window pane.
Stay patched through onto me.
Crawling into trouble, that's plain!
O
Orabibi
Orabibiba
Orabibi
Orabibaba
Orabibibabi
O
Orabibi
Orabibiba
Orabibi
Orabibaba
Orabibibabi
Watch out! Storms in Kathmandu.
Calling from country land.
Message comes from Kathmandu:
Sky is blue and clear.
Program your outing.
Watching now your system for rains.
Clouds: forty stories!
(Don't come in again like that, it isn't funny,
And I pay someone else to make the orchestration!)
Oh, island of the soul,
Valleys hushed and white with snow.
Ireland's eye...
You'll linger with me 'til the day I die.
Oh, how it hurts to go.
The waters ebb and flow.
The changing seasons come and go.
Ireland's eye...
Forever reaching up into the sky,
Oh, how I'll miss you so.
The sunlight dancing on your rocky shores,
The moonlight playing upon the water.
Your memory will stay with me forever more,
Wherever I may roam.
Stay with my dreams, I will see you!
Safe in my heart I will keep you.
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