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.
ALying wide awake under strange skies
Wanting to call you, but it is late at night
And you're far away, but you are always on my mind
I feel like I'm on fire, nothing I can do
I'm troubled with doubt, though I know it is not true
And it's times like these when I am dying to speak to you
Dying to get through, I'm dying to speak to you
Dying to get through, I'm dying to speak to you.
Staring at the wall, I sink inside
I think about it all, I get caught up in my life
I can't think straight, because it's tearing up my mind
I feel like I'm on fire, nothing I can do
I'm troubled with doubt, though I know it is not true
And it's times like these when I am dying to speak to you
Dying to get through, dying to get through
The more that I think how I need you
The more that I think, the more it seems true
And now it means more that I ever meant it to
Ever meant it to
Lying wide awake under strange skies
Wanting to call you, but it is late at night
And you're far away, but you are always on my mind
You are always on my mind
You are always on my mind
You are always on my mind
You are always on my mind
You are always on my mind
You are always on my mind
Wanting to call you, but it is late at night
And you're far away, but you are always on my mind
I feel like I'm on fire, nothing I can do
I'm troubled with doubt, though I know it is not true
And it's times like these when I am dying to speak to you
Dying to get through, I'm dying to speak to you
Dying to get through, I'm dying to speak to you.
Staring at the wall, I sink inside
I think about it all, I get caught up in my life
I can't think straight, because it's tearing up my mind
I feel like I'm on fire, nothing I can do
I'm troubled with doubt, though I know it is not true
And it's times like these when I am dying to speak to you
Dying to get through, dying to get through
The more that I think how I need you
The more that I think, the more it seems true
And now it means more that I ever meant it to
Ever meant it to
Lying wide awake under strange skies
Wanting to call you, but it is late at night
And you're far away, but you are always on my mind
You are always on my mind
You are always on my mind
You are always on my mind
You are always on my mind
You are always on my mind
You are always on my mind
Lyrics submitted by Ice
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this song is so much how you feel when the one you love is far away. long distance relationships are the hardest thing. one of ash's best songs. anyways, that's what i think...
:cries: L.O.C: 'And it's times like these when I am dying to speak to you.'
Well it can't only be about long distance relationships.. I think he has some destructive thought on his mind, that is tearing him apart, because he can't get rid of it. Maybe he is suspecting unfaithfulness - he knows it's not true, but he can't let it go anyhow.
Anyway terrific song, I don't know why it has so few comments.. when I was two weeks in Thailand, these lyrics are exactly what I wanted to communicate to my then girlfriend :>
Yeah. I quite agree with alll of the comments here.. Is all about Long Disatnce relationship.. But For me I have another perspectives.. For me this song is about someone who loves a girl a very deeply but he know he can't have it. You Know something Like You are really thinking bout the girls you love and makes you can't sleep at nigh thinking bout her.. "But You Re always on my mind".. It maybe occured that the girls already dating wif someone or your closest friend.. Anyway Ash is The best Rock band In the world. N Tim Is a masterpiece of art.. A very2 Marvelous Love song..
Good interpretations thus far. I listened to this song today, and this interpretation came unto me: Loving a girl you didn't fall for at first, but now you really have a big crush on, and you wonder if she already has someone or if she feels the same way. And just thinking of her and that.
Relatable at this moment.