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.
And I lay numb, waiting for
something worse to happen. s
Sweet innocence, it happened
so suddenly. She crossed my path
on the way to nothingness, I knew
that I was encountering an angel
of purity and in the process
I've quickly understood that I don't
deserve her, none of us, humans, do. beholding such a fatality leave you empty with bitter grief. life seems
to be tarnished and sour, raped
in its very essence, but sorrow is rapidly replaced by frustration,
envy & despair. dressed in white,
a child alone, so fragile and beautiful
has dawn, to hold her close was exhilarating in a most vicious way.
I felt so weak, yet empowered somehow. one thing leading to
another, I knew then, that if I could not experience nor possess purity,
I would at least try to grasp it and choke the life out of it. and I did,
oh why, I don't know but I did... violently, I've pummelled her face
with my bare fists till she became awfully deformed, bleeding and dying,
all twisted in terror... I, I, I have forcefully replaced every missing
teeth in her mouth by razor sharp shards of glass, slowly inserting every
piece of glass in the little one's gum. why was I laughing? I guess that is my art, to inflict upon purity the only thing I can give, and unfortunately it's
not love. I should've feel guilty, I know, but it simply didn't occur. (As I am unable to put the knife through my own flesh anymore...)
something worse to happen. s
Sweet innocence, it happened
so suddenly. She crossed my path
on the way to nothingness, I knew
that I was encountering an angel
of purity and in the process
I've quickly understood that I don't
deserve her, none of us, humans, do. beholding such a fatality leave you empty with bitter grief. life seems
to be tarnished and sour, raped
in its very essence, but sorrow is rapidly replaced by frustration,
envy & despair. dressed in white,
a child alone, so fragile and beautiful
has dawn, to hold her close was exhilarating in a most vicious way.
I felt so weak, yet empowered somehow. one thing leading to
another, I knew then, that if I could not experience nor possess purity,
I would at least try to grasp it and choke the life out of it. and I did,
oh why, I don't know but I did... violently, I've pummelled her face
with my bare fists till she became awfully deformed, bleeding and dying,
all twisted in terror... I, I, I have forcefully replaced every missing
teeth in her mouth by razor sharp shards of glass, slowly inserting every
piece of glass in the little one's gum. why was I laughing? I guess that is my art, to inflict upon purity the only thing I can give, and unfortunately it's
not love. I should've feel guilty, I know, but it simply didn't occur. (As I am unable to put the knife through my own flesh anymore...)
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