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.
We've got amnesia from the slightest problems
you start shaking
and you start talking
takes more than working now to keep you from falling
'cause work is starting and things are falling
I'm in a real good place
to light out without leaving a trace
you said i was the only one
now i just don't know whats going on
we don't get out
very much
we don't get out
very much
I'm afraid were loosing touch with our balled up little crowd
when we get out and get drunk
and we get high and don't talk
we just walk and walk and walk until we find ourselves alone
but at least we've got each other
it's not so bad if you can't remember
this is just an excuse for something
we have got amnesia from the slightest problems
you start shaking and you start talking
alone where i can't be you
alone where i can't be you
i don't think a lot about you
I've been thinking a lot about you
you start shaking
and you start talking
takes more than working now to keep you from falling
'cause work is starting and things are falling
I'm in a real good place
to light out without leaving a trace
you said i was the only one
now i just don't know whats going on
we don't get out
very much
we don't get out
very much
I'm afraid were loosing touch with our balled up little crowd
when we get out and get drunk
and we get high and don't talk
we just walk and walk and walk until we find ourselves alone
but at least we've got each other
it's not so bad if you can't remember
this is just an excuse for something
we have got amnesia from the slightest problems
you start shaking and you start talking
alone where i can't be you
alone where i can't be you
i don't think a lot about you
I've been thinking a lot about you
Lyrics submitted by jasono52
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i think this songi s about that 'first' breakup when you are an adult, post-school and trying to get a start making something of yourself. or i don't know, it could be about a relationship that ended or cannot survive that phase. this is really one of those songs that i can't tell exactly what it is about but it just seems to apply to the way things are in my life right now.
i changed my mind about what this song is about. i think it's about just the frustration of relating to someone else when you communicate of a subliminal level, and not so much in words. "when we get out and get drunk/when we get high and don't talk"
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holy shit, this song is too hibster garabe! im sorry.. had to say it.
"when we get out and get drunk and we get high and don't talk we just walk and walk and walk until we find ourselves alone but at least we've got each other" hey neither of us wants to be here but lets get fucked up and play until there's an excuse to leave
I see it as a post-breakup song, definitely. It makes me think of a couple that were great friends and dated despite knowing there were some things that wouldn't work out, and now keep trying to make it work despite past experience ("we've got amnesia from the slightest problems") and have tried to stay friends but their group is sort of falling apart, everything they do is hollow - "we get high and don't talk"
They're stuck in a rut and can't get past each other.
when we get out we get drunk and we get high and don't talk
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