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'm growing so distant
Nothing makes sense to me anymore
I'm learning to resist
Becoming more than you ever were
Can't explain, what's come over me (come over me)
Can't explain, why it's so hard for me,
So hard to see your side.
Projecting all my anger
I can't seem to get this through to you
The walls are closing in
I dare you to walk in my shoes
Can't explain, what's come over me (come over me)
Can't explain, why it's so hard for me,
So hard to see your side.
Your side,
I won't see your side
Can't explain, what's come over me (come over me)
Can't explain, why its so hard for me,
So hard to see your side.
Can't explain, what's come over me (come over me)
Can't explain, why it's so hard for me,
So hard to see your side.
I won't see your side.
Your side
Nothing makes sense to me anymore
I'm learning to resist
Becoming more than you ever were
Can't explain, what's come over me (come over me)
Can't explain, why it's so hard for me,
So hard to see your side.
Projecting all my anger
I can't seem to get this through to you
The walls are closing in
I dare you to walk in my shoes
Can't explain, what's come over me (come over me)
Can't explain, why it's so hard for me,
So hard to see your side.
Your side,
I won't see your side
Can't explain, what's come over me (come over me)
Can't explain, why its so hard for me,
So hard to see your side.
Can't explain, what's come over me (come over me)
Can't explain, why it's so hard for me,
So hard to see your side.
I won't see your side.
Your side
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So, I agree that this song is f'n phenomenal. I've listened to it a bunch of times, and I'm convinced the opening line is "I'm growing so disturbed". I don't hear distant in there anywhere.<br /> <br /> Anyway, can't wait for the new CD.
It's official, it wasn't a fluke. 5FDP kick serious ass!!
this song is so amazing i can not wait for the new album, its gonna be way better than way of the fist
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This song's kinda hard to explain for me, maybe thats cause the lines are few, and it keeps repeating the same stances. But I think it's about a relationship of some kind (love-friendship-politics) where one tries to be different than the other, and this choice is so clear that he cant even explain why their point of views are so different. So he says "i cant see your point of view, its so hard for me to accept it".
So, to me it's super easy. Ivan feels like no one understands him, or it may be the vice versa, and he may feel like everyone's point of view on things are total crap. In other words, he doesn't much agree with things.
badass song... all these people who say this new album won't be as hard need to hear the rest of the released songs and the album before making such ignorant comments
The new album is gonna be sick nasty.
FFDP has outdone themselves. Are the lyrics simplistic and sometimes cliched? Yes. Is that a bad thing? No.
Is the music, all of it, awesome?
Ohhhhh yeah.
not hard enough? to soft? listen to something else... 5fdp is here to stay bitches!