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 hold this hope with bloody hands
Hands to protest, hands to reject
Hold me up so I can stand
Left my body here, broken, empty
Let the fire burn
Let the flames rise high
Let the fire burn
See the world with open eyes
Still I tasted you
Because you asked me to
And so the hunger grew
Without connection
Won't you tear me apart
Won't you break me now
What's that you say, you'll go away
Oh... but anyway
This will hurt you more
More than it's hurting me
But you gave it away
You gave it away
You're breaking fists on walls
Nobody else can see
But you gave it away
You gave it away
In neverending space
I take my stand, lose my mind
In neverending black descending
No left, no right
Nno up, down, 'fore, behind
Coming back I see right through
Breaking fists on walls nobody else can see
Would you take it back now, but anyway
Looking back I never knew you
As you dream about what we could never be
Would you take it back now but anyway
Hands to protest, hands to reject
Hold me up so I can stand
Left my body here, broken, empty
Let the fire burn
Let the flames rise high
Let the fire burn
See the world with open eyes
Still I tasted you
Because you asked me to
And so the hunger grew
Without connection
Won't you tear me apart
Won't you break me now
What's that you say, you'll go away
Oh... but anyway
This will hurt you more
More than it's hurting me
But you gave it away
You gave it away
You're breaking fists on walls
Nobody else can see
But you gave it away
You gave it away
In neverending space
I take my stand, lose my mind
In neverending black descending
No left, no right
Nno up, down, 'fore, behind
Coming back I see right through
Breaking fists on walls nobody else can see
Would you take it back now, but anyway
Looking back I never knew you
As you dream about what we could never be
Would you take it back now but anyway
Lyrics submitted by EFindlicher
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