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.
Hand over hand, climbing to the sky
Over the mountains, up in the ice
I see the oceans before the light
It's too late to deny
2060, the days are gone
The forest is burning with mother earth
There's no return
And we have no sun
Flowers are spiders
Another tree falls in it's doom
The toxic reaction will be the view
The sentence is clear for what we didn't do
Butterflies are dragonflies
We are burning now
We are burning now
We are burning like we were nothing
Burning alive, burning with the world
Somebody waits, somebody waits his turn
Burning alive, burning with the world
Burn like a prophecy
Hand over hand, climbing to the top
No rainbows now, all we have is walls
There is no air we can't breathe enough
It's too late, it's too dark
A little child confides in you
The contamination is getting through
There is no mercy, there is no cure
Flowers are spiders
We are burning now
We are burning now
We are burning like we were nothing
Burning alive, burning with the world
Somebody waits, somebody waits his turn
Burning alive, burning with the world
Burn like a prophecy
Burning alive, burning with the world
Somebody waits, somebody waits his turn
Burning alive, burning with the world
Burn like a prophecy
My prophecy
My prophecy
My prophecy
We are burning now
We are burning now
We are burning like we were nothing
Burning alive, burning with the world
Somebody waits, somebody waits his turn
Burning alive, burning with the world
Burn like a prophecy
Burning alive
We're burning alive
Burning alive
Burning with the world
Burn like a prophecy
Over the mountains, up in the ice
I see the oceans before the light
It's too late to deny
2060, the days are gone
The forest is burning with mother earth
There's no return
And we have no sun
Flowers are spiders
Another tree falls in it's doom
The toxic reaction will be the view
The sentence is clear for what we didn't do
Butterflies are dragonflies
We are burning now
We are burning now
We are burning like we were nothing
Burning alive, burning with the world
Somebody waits, somebody waits his turn
Burning alive, burning with the world
Burn like a prophecy
Hand over hand, climbing to the top
No rainbows now, all we have is walls
There is no air we can't breathe enough
It's too late, it's too dark
A little child confides in you
The contamination is getting through
There is no mercy, there is no cure
Flowers are spiders
We are burning now
We are burning now
We are burning like we were nothing
Burning alive, burning with the world
Somebody waits, somebody waits his turn
Burning alive, burning with the world
Burn like a prophecy
Burning alive, burning with the world
Somebody waits, somebody waits his turn
Burning alive, burning with the world
Burn like a prophecy
My prophecy
My prophecy
My prophecy
We are burning now
We are burning now
We are burning like we were nothing
Burning alive, burning with the world
Somebody waits, somebody waits his turn
Burning alive, burning with the world
Burn like a prophecy
Burning alive
We're burning alive
Burning alive
Burning with the world
Burn like a prophecy
Lyrics submitted by candycrime
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