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.
Hey, spider
You’ve got me in your web
You know exactly your prey
And I disappear into you
It’s time to plan my escape
Because you found me, I must go
Maybe I’ll go to Cincinnati
Hey
Quiet down from this big town
I also thought of Seattle
Pensacola, Florida
But I couldn’t move north of the city
Oh, in the fields and trees
A meadow garden, and
You don’t have to mow the lawn
I want to make a long road
To my house
And if you die for me
Your only goal is my door
You can eat the coconuts
I don’t care
I’ll find some things outside
Just give me chlorophyll and air
I hope to walk (out?) dark tonight
Stay in by the (night?)
I don’t know what I’m becoming
I can’t see past my eyes, it seems
But I’ll take the green blood
Turn it red inside of me
I’ll take your hand inside my body
Reach in your heart
Take it out for food
Eat my heart out
Take the rest of me inside of you
You’ve got me in your web
You know exactly your prey
And I disappear into you
It’s time to plan my escape
Because you found me, I must go
Maybe I’ll go to Cincinnati
Hey
Quiet down from this big town
I also thought of Seattle
Pensacola, Florida
But I couldn’t move north of the city
Oh, in the fields and trees
A meadow garden, and
You don’t have to mow the lawn
I want to make a long road
To my house
And if you die for me
Your only goal is my door
You can eat the coconuts
I don’t care
I’ll find some things outside
Just give me chlorophyll and air
I hope to walk (out?) dark tonight
Stay in by the (night?)
I don’t know what I’m becoming
I can’t see past my eyes, it seems
But I’ll take the green blood
Turn it red inside of me
I’ll take your hand inside my body
Reach in your heart
Take it out for food
Eat my heart out
Take the rest of me inside of you
Lyrics submitted by ButNeverOutgunned
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