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.
I don't like the things you don't say
Leavin' it for such a long, long time
Why do you show me those sad, sad eyes
Each time you decide to pass on by
And when you smile those sad eyes
Look sadder and sadder still
Autumn's hue in those sad eyes
Makes me love and love them more
I'll have a bath, I'll make the dinner
And then I'll go wait for a long, long time
But still you've not passed my door
And when you smile those sad eyes
Look sadder and sadder still
I can tell that you're lonely but it seems now
There's nothing you want me to do
So I won't try to take the sadness
From those eyes that I love
Leave it open for someone else to
And when you smile those sad eyes
Look sadder and sadder still
Trying to hold it together
Keep my love as light as a feather
Sad eyes, baby, it's been such a long time
Keep my heart breaking in the dark
Come and spend the night
Sad eyes [Incomprehensible] hold it together
(Sad eyes, oh)
Keep my love as light as a feather
(Sad eyes)
Sad eyes, baby, it's been such a long time
(Sad eyes)
Keep my heart breaking in the dark
Come and spend the night
Sad eyes
Sad eyes
Sad eyes
Leavin' it for such a long, long time
Why do you show me those sad, sad eyes
Each time you decide to pass on by
And when you smile those sad eyes
Look sadder and sadder still
Autumn's hue in those sad eyes
Makes me love and love them more
I'll have a bath, I'll make the dinner
And then I'll go wait for a long, long time
But still you've not passed my door
And when you smile those sad eyes
Look sadder and sadder still
I can tell that you're lonely but it seems now
There's nothing you want me to do
So I won't try to take the sadness
From those eyes that I love
Leave it open for someone else to
And when you smile those sad eyes
Look sadder and sadder still
Trying to hold it together
Keep my love as light as a feather
Sad eyes, baby, it's been such a long time
Keep my heart breaking in the dark
Come and spend the night
Sad eyes [Incomprehensible] hold it together
(Sad eyes, oh)
Keep my love as light as a feather
(Sad eyes)
Sad eyes, baby, it's been such a long time
(Sad eyes)
Keep my heart breaking in the dark
Come and spend the night
Sad eyes
Sad eyes
Sad eyes
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The saddest song. I agree with Moominhannah.
Maybe it's not that there's this deep depression, though. Maybe it's just that he doesn't want to be in the relationship anymore but can't tell her. And she, sensing that, lets him go. It's this beautiful, terrible recognition that something she has poured so much of her self into and worked so hard to maintain is gone before it's over.
Can't listen to or sing without crying.