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.
Upon our evening when the sun fired blanks
There rode the sickness out of our sight
Carried torches burned out long before its time
Among these ruins where our love to be found
Ambition falters when no better is to be known
Cling to the unfounded pride
Death to our belonging
And our ministry of two
Set the higher standard
And to a greater fall descend
Slaves to one another
And to others be it not
Soothing be temptation
Force the conscience to a halt
Caused a high vibration
A tender light to be part of you
The two-way escape
Death to our belonging
And our ministry of two
Set the higher standard
And to a greater fall descend
There rode the sickness out of our sight
Carried torches burned out long before its time
Among these ruins where our love to be found
Ambition falters when no better is to be known
Cling to the unfounded pride
Death to our belonging
And our ministry of two
Set the higher standard
And to a greater fall descend
Slaves to one another
And to others be it not
Soothing be temptation
Force the conscience to a halt
Caused a high vibration
A tender light to be part of you
The two-way escape
Death to our belonging
And our ministry of two
Set the higher standard
And to a greater fall descend
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