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.
Kid what changed your mood
You've gone all sad so I feel sad too
I think I know some things we never outgrow
You think it's wrong
I can tell you do
How can I explain
When you don't want me to
Kid my only kid
You look so small you've gone so quiet
I know you know what I'm about
I won't deny it
But you forgive though you don't understand
You've turned your head
You've dropped by hand
All my sorrow, all my blues
All my sorrow
Shut the light, go away
Full of grace, you cover your face
Kid gracious kid
Your eyes are blue but you won't cry
I know angry tears are too dear
You won't let them go
You've gone all sad so I feel sad too
I think I know some things we never outgrow
You think it's wrong
I can tell you do
How can I explain
When you don't want me to
Kid my only kid
You look so small you've gone so quiet
I know you know what I'm about
I won't deny it
But you forgive though you don't understand
You've turned your head
You've dropped by hand
All my sorrow, all my blues
All my sorrow
Shut the light, go away
Full of grace, you cover your face
Kid gracious kid
Your eyes are blue but you won't cry
I know angry tears are too dear
You won't let them go
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@epiwoosh I'm glad that this song made me think more about my situation because I'm starting to understand what my dad was thinking. He was never going to let them get away with anything and was already planning extremely severe punishment for them even before everything they did to me. He just wanted not only me but the whole universe to see absolutely clearly how much they deserved that punishment and why they won't ever get leniency. And I think the only other way I might've learned the lesson was to witness what happened to me happen to someone else, but he knew I wouldn't have been able to bear seeing it happen to anyone else, so I would've gotten in the way of that. I'd say that sometimes I think he thinks I'm a lot stronger than I am, but then he'd say I'm a lot stronger than I think I am, because even though I hold onto my wounds I don't let them change me or let go of my principles. Anyway, I'm sure I'll have many talks in the future with my dad and my friends who've also suffered, and we'll all figure out how to navigate through these ethical concerns when it comes to justice. One thing I know for sure is that exacting justice and revenge is not nearly the same thing as sadistically making innocent people suffer just because you can, and anyone with any sense or any heart at all knows that, so those quotes like Auden's "Those to whom evil is done do evil in return" are just concocted by the evil ones to pathetically try to feel better about themselves, or just to confess part of their mind-control strategy for turning people evil in that way they love to gloat about their wrongdoings. In any case, what I experienced was a massive-scale version of the Milgram experiment and Stanford prison experiment combined, and I hope it means the end of anyone ever being subjected to anything like that again, not because I don't now think that certain people wouldn't deserve it, but because it brought out the absolute worst in ugly tendencies in humanity as a whole, to an extent I naively didn't believe was possible, and that's not something I'd ever want to see happen again in any species anywhere. I think the only way it will happen now is when someone is tortured by their own subconscious in their dreams for treating others so badly. That will probably even be the main punishment that my dad has in mind for them, for them to be perpetually tortured by their own subconscious because deep down they know that's what they deserve.