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.
Will we work it out
Will we lose control
You can go your own way
But it doesn't make it better
I've been living in a memory, inside
Sometimes the past, it gets too real for me
Creeping shadows in the corners
And I see the little people, mechanical
And I want to get out
The burning pieces of the lovers, there's always another
Broken hearted tragedy
Feel the light as it blinds your eyes
And the lies just cover the lies
Mind over, mind over, mind over me
I can't always live in fiction
Or control the things I see
Mind over, mind over, mind over me
If we take the world together
Then the light divides the rest of me
What I've been after is a reason to make believe
In a world where the truth will always be
A tiny whisper and it's meaning that was always said
To somebody else, some other time
But never to me
The turning faces remind me that this is a parody
And I know the jokes on me
Feel the rhythm as it pumps your heart
And time just passes time
Mind over, mind over, mind over me
I can't always live in fiction
Or control the things I see
Mind over, mind over, mind over me
If we take the world together
Then the light divides the rest of me
Will we make it out
Or will we fall apart
You can go your own way
But it doesn't make it better
Will we work it out
Will we lose control
You can go your own way
But it doesn't make it better (2x)
Mind over, mind over, mind over me
I can't always live in fiction
Or control the things I see
Mind over, mind over, mind over me
If we take the world together
Then the light divides the rest of me (2x)
Mind over, mind over, mind over me
Will we lose control
You can go your own way
But it doesn't make it better
I've been living in a memory, inside
Sometimes the past, it gets too real for me
Creeping shadows in the corners
And I see the little people, mechanical
And I want to get out
The burning pieces of the lovers, there's always another
Broken hearted tragedy
Feel the light as it blinds your eyes
And the lies just cover the lies
Mind over, mind over, mind over me
I can't always live in fiction
Or control the things I see
Mind over, mind over, mind over me
If we take the world together
Then the light divides the rest of me
What I've been after is a reason to make believe
In a world where the truth will always be
A tiny whisper and it's meaning that was always said
To somebody else, some other time
But never to me
The turning faces remind me that this is a parody
And I know the jokes on me
Feel the rhythm as it pumps your heart
And time just passes time
Mind over, mind over, mind over me
I can't always live in fiction
Or control the things I see
Mind over, mind over, mind over me
If we take the world together
Then the light divides the rest of me
Will we make it out
Or will we fall apart
You can go your own way
But it doesn't make it better
Will we work it out
Will we lose control
You can go your own way
But it doesn't make it better (2x)
Mind over, mind over, mind over me
I can't always live in fiction
Or control the things I see
Mind over, mind over, mind over me
If we take the world together
Then the light divides the rest of me (2x)
Mind over, mind over, mind over me
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