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.
This sickness, it burns inside me,It sticks in my throat, I'm gonna choke, I can not speak,
Besides it runs the fear of the unknown,
Could this be some reckoning,
Wrath for wrongs I've done commin back to haunt me, The God I have denied his power shown
But now I can't protest although defiant heart it pounds deep in my chest, I know that this will Have its way with me.
For now I chose to go,
I know it just the mind tryin' to interrupt my flow
Intentions all fall down,
My, soul, has, died...
Now this will not, die they warned me, inchurch when I was young I could rely,
If there's a God he's one I've never seen,
And now I just lament,
Did not heed the threat, I played the card that I've been dealt, Like putting out the fire, with gasoline,
For when I use I lose, won't face the fear of life without something abused, now that I'm forced to find another way,
My show, your final, show
A homicide I tried to warn, you should have known,
Now I'll take you with me,
Show, You, MY, Pain..
Feed the need it's not greed,
I figure, So what,
Can I fix the hole that resides deep in this, gut?
Well, I'll fix myself, whatever it takes, I cano not wait.
Come and get it, Come and get it, Get Some, I feed the need that twist my mind, time and time again, you think I play to win, I do know what I'm takin you know I'm fixin ta get some.
Come and get it, Come and get it, Get Some...
Besides it runs the fear of the unknown,
Could this be some reckoning,
Wrath for wrongs I've done commin back to haunt me, The God I have denied his power shown
But now I can't protest although defiant heart it pounds deep in my chest, I know that this will Have its way with me.
For now I chose to go,
I know it just the mind tryin' to interrupt my flow
Intentions all fall down,
My, soul, has, died...
Now this will not, die they warned me, inchurch when I was young I could rely,
If there's a God he's one I've never seen,
And now I just lament,
Did not heed the threat, I played the card that I've been dealt, Like putting out the fire, with gasoline,
For when I use I lose, won't face the fear of life without something abused, now that I'm forced to find another way,
My show, your final, show
A homicide I tried to warn, you should have known,
Now I'll take you with me,
Show, You, MY, Pain..
Feed the need it's not greed,
I figure, So what,
Can I fix the hole that resides deep in this, gut?
Well, I'll fix myself, whatever it takes, I cano not wait.
Come and get it, Come and get it, Get Some, I feed the need that twist my mind, time and time again, you think I play to win, I do know what I'm takin you know I'm fixin ta get some.
Come and get it, Come and get it, Get Some...
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it's about not goin back on dope. i thought this site was suppose to have a deeper look at lyrics. not people writing shit like "this song is just wonderful" what the fuck???
This song is just wonderful.
There is something incredible in this song! Peace to Straight Lynn!
correction: Lynn Strait
I agree with kadadust, the final verses are rather explanatory.
Awesome fucking song.
Love the ambient guitar...
This song gives me chills...
I think he's saying he had no reason to believe in God because his life was so shit that why would an all loving God allow all that crap to happen to him and everyone else in the world. He turned to drugs to fill the void in his life, but now that he feels his days are numbered he starts to "Fear the unknown" maybe there is a God and all the bad shit he's done in his life will cause him to burn in Hell forever. He doesn't know what to do but he has no idea how to get off the drugs or if he even knows how to handle life without the drugs. So he just keeps abusing and living in fear.
God I almost cry when I hear this song.
Anyone who's not just struggled, but had their life consumed and destroyed by addiction over and over....lost all or most of their friends to overdose, had their family and remaining friends all turn their backs on you, been to jail and/or prison multiple times, been to hundreds of rehabs and halfway houses, been homeless, lost everything and anyone that's ever been important to you, and after all that you still got high....I think they probably understand the song meaning. With the knowledge that all of those previous listed things have already happened because of your addiction and will happen again if you use, and when the love of your life and soulmate, and coincidentally the last person on earth who still loves you and believes in you, tells you that if you use again she will leave and never come back, and when the ER doctor tells you that if you get one more infected absess from shooting dope, he's going to have to take your arm, and you STILL get high..... Then you'll truly know what this songs about (one armed mic drop)....