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.
Oooooh there's gravel in the pasture near the Calumet Pallet Company
I recognize my life as an ancient archetype
I've set free in slide birthing a servant
I'm indebted to and embedded within
He's unfamiliar to me as I am to him
We two fabulous beasts of prayer and sin
Ooooooh there's nothing
Like your motor-cycle slalom through the cometary
We still walk on will more so than our feet
An intuitive atlas toward a feast
near the knuckled branches of a gnarled tree
I'm unfamiliar to him as he is to me
But a well of healing waters floats us free
But Ooooh that woman on the street corner won't stop screaming
Please please please please please please please please
I recognize my life as an ancient archetype
I've set free in slide birthing a servant
I'm indebted to and embedded within
He's unfamiliar to me as I am to him
We two fabulous beasts of prayer and sin
Ooooooh there's nothing
Like your motor-cycle slalom through the cometary
We still walk on will more so than our feet
An intuitive atlas toward a feast
near the knuckled branches of a gnarled tree
I'm unfamiliar to him as he is to me
But a well of healing waters floats us free
But Ooooh that woman on the street corner won't stop screaming
Please please please please please please please please
Lyrics submitted by RecoveringPain
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