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.
Oh summer life, oh summer life
Crawling with these worms you're afraid of all their germs
Oh bask in life, oh bask in life
The weather gonna swallow you into the great divide
Oh enjoy life, oh enjoy life
Climbing up those trees and breaking all your knees
Watch angels in the morning become a devil's afternoon
I will panic in the evening underneath the crashing moon
So fall in love while you can still hold your head up high
And pretend that you're alive again
It's friends that leave you here in the end so hold your head up high
And pretend that you're alive again
Now autumn brings the beautiful things
Where all you give comes back to you like the crown upon my king
Your life's a song so sing along
Before the silence swallows you and leaves you like a pawn
Watch angels in the morning become a devil's afternoon
I will panic in the evening underneath the crashing moon
So fall in love while you can still hold your head up high
And pretend that you're alive again
It's friends that leave you here in the end so hold your head up high
And pretend that you're alive
Your friends now ghosts are screaming
Bury us, they said, while panicking my mind was broken.
Crawling with these worms you're afraid of all their germs
Oh bask in life, oh bask in life
The weather gonna swallow you into the great divide
Oh enjoy life, oh enjoy life
Climbing up those trees and breaking all your knees
Watch angels in the morning become a devil's afternoon
I will panic in the evening underneath the crashing moon
So fall in love while you can still hold your head up high
And pretend that you're alive again
It's friends that leave you here in the end so hold your head up high
And pretend that you're alive again
Now autumn brings the beautiful things
Where all you give comes back to you like the crown upon my king
Your life's a song so sing along
Before the silence swallows you and leaves you like a pawn
Watch angels in the morning become a devil's afternoon
I will panic in the evening underneath the crashing moon
So fall in love while you can still hold your head up high
And pretend that you're alive again
It's friends that leave you here in the end so hold your head up high
And pretend that you're alive
Your friends now ghosts are screaming
Bury us, they said, while panicking my mind was broken.
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dude, i so agree! : )