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.
Getting everything is easy for you
Fail for anything is something you can't do
If it doesn't work in the way you want it for
You start dreaming until it's right
Lie is lie -- and truth is truth
You'll turn it 'round, let someone else go down
You won't remember and no one would wonder
How you change it upside down
Too high to get it right
(too high to get -- too high to get)
Too high to get it right
(too high to get it right) -- too high to get it right
(too high to get it right) -- to get it right
(too high to get it right) -- too high to get it right
(too high to get it right) -- to get it right
To get it right
You can't deny it you're leaving your world
You are so restless, who's the one who's hurt
Living in your dreams and who seems to care
Cheating you is easy, 'cause you don't understand
Holding on -- letting loose
Don't you feel that you are confused
Too many words -- not spoken out
Too many things you've not thought about
Too high to get it right
(too high to get -- too high to get)
Too high to get it right
(too high to get it right) -- too high to get it right
(too high to get it right) -- to get it right
(too high to get it right) -- too high to get it right
(too high to get it right) -- to get it right
(too high to get it right) -- too high to get it right
(too high to get it right) -- to get it right
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(too high to get it right) -- to get it right
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(too high to get it right) -- to get it right
(too high to get it right) -- too high to get it right
(too high to get it -- too high to get it -- too high to get it)
Too high to get it (right)
Fail for anything is something you can't do
If it doesn't work in the way you want it for
You start dreaming until it's right
Lie is lie -- and truth is truth
You'll turn it 'round, let someone else go down
You won't remember and no one would wonder
How you change it upside down
Too high to get it right
(too high to get -- too high to get)
Too high to get it right
(too high to get it right) -- too high to get it right
(too high to get it right) -- to get it right
(too high to get it right) -- too high to get it right
(too high to get it right) -- to get it right
To get it right
You can't deny it you're leaving your world
You are so restless, who's the one who's hurt
Living in your dreams and who seems to care
Cheating you is easy, 'cause you don't understand
Holding on -- letting loose
Don't you feel that you are confused
Too many words -- not spoken out
Too many things you've not thought about
Too high to get it right
(too high to get -- too high to get)
Too high to get it right
(too high to get it right) -- too high to get it right
(too high to get it right) -- to get it right
(too high to get it right) -- too high to get it right
(too high to get it right) -- to get it right
(too high to get it right) -- too high to get it right
(too high to get it right) -- to get it right
(too high to get it right) -- too high to get it right
(too high to get it right) -- to get it right
(too high to get it right) -- too high to get it right
(too high to get it right) -- to get it right
(too high to get it right) -- too high to get it right
(too high to get it -- too high to get it -- too high to get it)
Too high to get it (right)
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