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.
He keeps to himself these days
Doesn't have much to talk about
But he tells himself over and again
"She'll be here soon."
Emotions are all the same
Maybe just love and lonliness
But that enlightenment doesn't help at all
It just makes it worse when she's not around
That's when the sky cries for him and
The lightning strikes
He's mesmerized
Oh, super me
You're all that I long to
Tries not to think too much
Everything makes him think of her
When reason escapes him
Love takes it's place
He's got a frame of mind
Which captures the bigger picture
But that enlightenment doesn't help at all
It just makes it worse when she's not around
That's when the sky cries for him and
The lightning strikes
He's mesmerized
If the end of the world came crashing down on him
He'd welcome it
With open arms like an old friend
And oh, super me
You're all that I long to be
Searching the skies and to my surprise
We always end up
In each other's arms
You help me to the discern
As I fall apart
You willed me to start again, again
That's when the sky cries for him
The lightning strikes him down
With open arms like an old friend
Doesn't have much to talk about
But he tells himself over and again
"She'll be here soon."
Emotions are all the same
Maybe just love and lonliness
But that enlightenment doesn't help at all
It just makes it worse when she's not around
That's when the sky cries for him and
The lightning strikes
He's mesmerized
Oh, super me
You're all that I long to
Tries not to think too much
Everything makes him think of her
When reason escapes him
Love takes it's place
He's got a frame of mind
Which captures the bigger picture
But that enlightenment doesn't help at all
It just makes it worse when she's not around
That's when the sky cries for him and
The lightning strikes
He's mesmerized
If the end of the world came crashing down on him
He'd welcome it
With open arms like an old friend
And oh, super me
You're all that I long to be
Searching the skies and to my surprise
We always end up
In each other's arms
You help me to the discern
As I fall apart
You willed me to start again, again
That's when the sky cries for him
The lightning strikes him down
With open arms like an old friend
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Great version of a great song,
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how it takes two years for someone to discover this song, i have no idea. this song is so awesome. i love it, love it, i love it.
Super me!