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.
That's how the song sings
When your heart beings this longing
One day it's a band of gold
The next day it's a chunk of coal
You're like a harmony
I'm like a melody
That's you and me
We only disagree
That's how the song sings
That's how it sings
Like a bar with no tv
Turn to let a little conversation breathe (?)
Keep your eyeballs glued to me
Undistracted by the tv screen
So you wanna talk,
wanna really talk,
Well let's not talk
Not even say a thing
That's how the song sings
It's how it sings
You know i try to write a somber song
But I feel I've been away too long
My friends are grown and responsible
I'm a child yet not capable
That's how I come - That's how I go
That's how the song sings
When your heart beings this longing
One day it's a band of gold
The next day it's a chunk of coal
When your heart beings this longing
One day it's a band of gold
The next day it's a chunk of coal
You're like a harmony
I'm like a melody
That's you and me
We only disagree
That's how the song sings
That's how it sings
Like a bar with no tv
Turn to let a little conversation breathe (?)
Keep your eyeballs glued to me
Undistracted by the tv screen
So you wanna talk,
wanna really talk,
Well let's not talk
Not even say a thing
That's how the song sings
It's how it sings
You know i try to write a somber song
But I feel I've been away too long
My friends are grown and responsible
I'm a child yet not capable
That's how I come - That's how I go
That's how the song sings
When your heart beings this longing
One day it's a band of gold
The next day it's a chunk of coal
Lyrics submitted by loveinvincible
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