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.
"Where are you going now, your boyfriend's
Your fucking proud.
Look, it is not your tired etc, etc, etc.
I said I am sorry.
You know, I am sorry.
I am more sorry than you know
Moved apart and we always imagined it
I won't say why.
It's alright, I told you.
It won't happen again."
So what contraception's an angel gonna use
When his little halo his little halo
Went and split went and split
His little halo went and split
Held her arms length,
Disgusted fingertip bids him
What eeny weeny tales you gonna chase behind
Behind the line in the bible, snooks,
A line from the bible
It'll be alright
It'll be more careful
It'll be more careful
And it'll be beautiful
And remember with pinky tongue touched to his nose
Little wet nose
Adoration and juice in those
Fresh for sniffing curly girls
Girls drunk on [?] and cherry cherubim
Yum Yum
What can you do for him?
You cannot sweat enough beneath him
Touch him, but you cannot reach him
Scream, squeeze the sea and and hail the breeze from the surf
My way's from jesus
Squeeze fucking squeeze fucking squeeze
Squeeze it squeeze it squeeze
Beneath the light we chose the one you need to see
And [mumbled] tunnel so thoughtfully
Darling of raspberry
Lip bit
Mother and shit shit shit
But angel's on a misson to earn redemptive ears
So what does an angel use
What does an angel do
What does an angel chose to do
Earn geometrical halos perfecto
Shown rusted desperate graffiti
Scrolled beneath the hundreth cove of god
And upon pterodactyl's brow wins
Fingers tear out no wings, no feathers
No double sixes
You lose, move away from the table
Move away
The click of necklace, glass, and teeth
Are misty those windows from breath
Smeared, crying, prying
See,
Do not penetrate me, oh my angel
Do not penetrate me
Do not penetrate me, oh my angel
For no angel surely would
For no angel surely would
Not one a little more love to grow
Just not one a little more love
Your fucking proud.
Look, it is not your tired etc, etc, etc.
I said I am sorry.
You know, I am sorry.
I am more sorry than you know
Moved apart and we always imagined it
I won't say why.
It's alright, I told you.
It won't happen again."
So what contraception's an angel gonna use
When his little halo his little halo
Went and split went and split
His little halo went and split
Held her arms length,
Disgusted fingertip bids him
What eeny weeny tales you gonna chase behind
Behind the line in the bible, snooks,
A line from the bible
It'll be alright
It'll be more careful
It'll be more careful
And it'll be beautiful
And remember with pinky tongue touched to his nose
Little wet nose
Adoration and juice in those
Fresh for sniffing curly girls
Girls drunk on [?] and cherry cherubim
Yum Yum
What can you do for him?
You cannot sweat enough beneath him
Touch him, but you cannot reach him
Scream, squeeze the sea and and hail the breeze from the surf
My way's from jesus
Squeeze fucking squeeze fucking squeeze
Squeeze it squeeze it squeeze
Beneath the light we chose the one you need to see
And [mumbled] tunnel so thoughtfully
Darling of raspberry
Lip bit
Mother and shit shit shit
But angel's on a misson to earn redemptive ears
So what does an angel use
What does an angel do
What does an angel chose to do
Earn geometrical halos perfecto
Shown rusted desperate graffiti
Scrolled beneath the hundreth cove of god
And upon pterodactyl's brow wins
Fingers tear out no wings, no feathers
No double sixes
You lose, move away from the table
Move away
The click of necklace, glass, and teeth
Are misty those windows from breath
Smeared, crying, prying
See,
Do not penetrate me, oh my angel
Do not penetrate me
Do not penetrate me, oh my angel
For no angel surely would
For no angel surely would
Not one a little more love to grow
Just not one a little more love
Lyrics submitted by Riis
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