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.
Cracked phone line
Means nothing
My brain's in fights and vain
My breathing
So shallow
It helps to cut the pain
What's outside?
Sneaks inside
How we contaminate
This war zone of my soul
I underestimate
I've never really thought about it that much
It's only ever violence that's in my touch
Appears, appears, appears
I am built this way
Appears, appears, appears
I am built this way
The pills they, quit working
They take more than they give
Emotions on flat line
It's all that I can give
The rising
The falling
My mind keeps tricking me
It throws me a life raft
Then leaves me out at sea
I've never really thought about it that much
It's only ever violence that's in my touch
Appears, appears, appears
I am built this way
Appears, appears, appears
I am built this way
I've never really thought about it that much
It's only ever violence that's in my touch
Appears, appears, appears
I am built this way
Appears, appears, appears
I am built this way
Means nothing
My brain's in fights and vain
My breathing
So shallow
It helps to cut the pain
What's outside?
Sneaks inside
How we contaminate
This war zone of my soul
I underestimate
I've never really thought about it that much
It's only ever violence that's in my touch
Appears, appears, appears
I am built this way
Appears, appears, appears
I am built this way
The pills they, quit working
They take more than they give
Emotions on flat line
It's all that I can give
The rising
The falling
My mind keeps tricking me
It throws me a life raft
Then leaves me out at sea
I've never really thought about it that much
It's only ever violence that's in my touch
Appears, appears, appears
I am built this way
Appears, appears, appears
I am built this way
I've never really thought about it that much
It's only ever violence that's in my touch
Appears, appears, appears
I am built this way
Appears, appears, appears
I am built this way
Lyrics submitted by darksidegurl_01
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