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.
Whoa oh Whoa oh
Whoa oh Whoa oh
I woke up sweat soaked in the morning
I was mourning freedom buried deep
Mourning freedom buried deep
In tickers and broadcasts through power lines
Freedom buried in sound bites, buried in headlines
And we sing
Whoa oh Whoa oh
Whoa oh Whoa oh
A nation in fervor has given up
No, no, no, this fight has just begun
With movements and revolutions as few and far between
As movements and revolutions will ever come to be
This scare is blood soaked red (So red)
I marked down the last words that you said, as we watched this city
Whoa oh Whoa oh
Watch it burn!
Whoa oh Whoa oh
Alright!
It's beaten in and beaten in
We're coming back around again
It's beaten in and beaten in
We're coming back around again
This scare is blood soaked red (So red)
I marked down the last words that you said, as we watched this city
Fall and hit the ground
No one can ever replace what we've lost now
Fall and hit the ground
No one can ever replace what we've lost now, yeah!
We're coming back around
Whoa oh Whoa oh
We're coming back around
Whoa oh Whoa oh
We're coming back around
Whoa oh Whoa oh
We're coming back around
Whoa oh Whoa oh
We're coming back around
Whoa oh Whoa oh
We're coming back around
Whoa oh Whoa oh
We're coming back around
Whoa oh Whoa oh
We're coming back around
Whoa oh Whoa oh
I woke up sweat soaked in the morning
I was mourning freedom buried deep
Mourning freedom buried deep
In tickers and broadcasts through power lines
Freedom buried in sound bites, buried in headlines
And we sing
Whoa oh Whoa oh
Whoa oh Whoa oh
A nation in fervor has given up
No, no, no, this fight has just begun
With movements and revolutions as few and far between
As movements and revolutions will ever come to be
This scare is blood soaked red (So red)
I marked down the last words that you said, as we watched this city
Whoa oh Whoa oh
Watch it burn!
Whoa oh Whoa oh
Alright!
It's beaten in and beaten in
We're coming back around again
It's beaten in and beaten in
We're coming back around again
This scare is blood soaked red (So red)
I marked down the last words that you said, as we watched this city
Fall and hit the ground
No one can ever replace what we've lost now
Fall and hit the ground
No one can ever replace what we've lost now, yeah!
We're coming back around
Whoa oh Whoa oh
We're coming back around
Whoa oh Whoa oh
We're coming back around
Whoa oh Whoa oh
We're coming back around
Whoa oh Whoa oh
We're coming back around
Whoa oh Whoa oh
We're coming back around
Whoa oh Whoa oh
We're coming back around
Whoa oh Whoa oh
We're coming back around
Lyrics submitted by punkpirate
Cities Burn Lyrics as written by Patrick C. Bollinger Christopher Lee Barker
Lyrics © Wixen Music Publishing
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