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.
Piecemeal approach to the years of effort
Trying to heal with all my effort
Are we here just to entertain our feelings?
Feelings of our craving, our big eyes
There should be so much more
In a time of need and personal affliction
It becomes a tired excuse as an addiction
And it's your excuse for me instead
That I've gone and lost my head
But I'm stronger, I've grown stronger
There should be so much more
Something like no other
Something that your mother
Could never give
Aligned with all the things that takes us longer
To be afraid to listen when things get harder
There should be so much more
Something like no other
Something that your mother
Could never give (2x)
And it's you and you alone
Who wont stand tall and let it show
Just walk away and let me go
'Cause it's you and you alone who needs to grow
There should be so much more
Something like no other
Something that your mother
Could never give
There would be so much more
Something like no other
Something that your mother
Could never give
Trying to heal with all my effort
Are we here just to entertain our feelings?
Feelings of our craving, our big eyes
There should be so much more
In a time of need and personal affliction
It becomes a tired excuse as an addiction
And it's your excuse for me instead
That I've gone and lost my head
But I'm stronger, I've grown stronger
There should be so much more
Something like no other
Something that your mother
Could never give
Aligned with all the things that takes us longer
To be afraid to listen when things get harder
There should be so much more
Something like no other
Something that your mother
Could never give (2x)
And it's you and you alone
Who wont stand tall and let it show
Just walk away and let me go
'Cause it's you and you alone who needs to grow
There should be so much more
Something like no other
Something that your mother
Could never give
There would be so much more
Something like no other
Something that your mother
Could never give
Lyrics submitted by Webmaster
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I've read through all of your lyrics here. They're ok, but that's about it. Nothing about them stands out as spectacular. You are basically the poor man's Pete Yorn.