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 swear, I can't stand this place
And whats becoming of me
The longer I have to stay.
I want to
Think all unthinkable things
And say what I shouldn't say
I need a change
With that said, I'm leaving today
I got some concrete ideas and they've been paving my way
Towards all the
Downtown's and urban decay
There's so much life in these bricks
There's so much buildings can say
A new experienced me
We'll be coming back on rusted wheels and bloody knees
[Chorus]
A call to arms
From server to soldiers
Whose got no one to count on
Faceless and scarred
We don't know where we're going
We forgot where we came from
I thought that there was blood left in this stone
Turns out that I was wrong
I hope to find a place that feels like home
With a heightened sense of strength
And the strongest sense of sound
A new experienced me
We'll be coming back on rusted wheels and bloody knees
[Chorus]
A new experienced me (a new experienced me)
We'll be coming back on rusted wheels and bloody knees
[Chorus]
And whats becoming of me
The longer I have to stay.
I want to
Think all unthinkable things
And say what I shouldn't say
I need a change
With that said, I'm leaving today
I got some concrete ideas and they've been paving my way
Towards all the
Downtown's and urban decay
There's so much life in these bricks
There's so much buildings can say
A new experienced me
We'll be coming back on rusted wheels and bloody knees
[Chorus]
A call to arms
From server to soldiers
Whose got no one to count on
Faceless and scarred
We don't know where we're going
We forgot where we came from
I thought that there was blood left in this stone
Turns out that I was wrong
I hope to find a place that feels like home
With a heightened sense of strength
And the strongest sense of sound
A new experienced me
We'll be coming back on rusted wheels and bloody knees
[Chorus]
A new experienced me (a new experienced me)
We'll be coming back on rusted wheels and bloody knees
[Chorus]
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