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.
Why am I so afraid of the night?
My silhouette it taunts me
My lack of faith in this beautiful life
My knowing of it haunts me
I'm haunted and know I should be afraid
Lay awake at night
Cry you know its not alright to feel like you’re falling into nothing
You can learn to fly
Just call
His name
Just call His name
Suddenly I wonder why I feel so alone
I know there’s something out there
Thought I’d suck it up and do it all on my own
Wish I'd known He does care
I'm haunted
And I know I should be afraid
Lay awake at night
Cry you know it’s not alright to feel like you’re falling into nothing
You can learn to fly
Just call
His name
Just call His name
Where do we go?
Call out His name
Lift up our hands
Completely ashamed
Give it all up
Dropping our pride
Rip us apart
Change us on the inside
Now change us now (we cry out to you we fall on our knees)
Lay awake at night
Cry you know it’s not alright to feel like you’re falling into nothing
You can learn to fly
Just call
His name
Just call His name
My silhouette it taunts me
My lack of faith in this beautiful life
My knowing of it haunts me
I'm haunted and know I should be afraid
Lay awake at night
Cry you know its not alright to feel like you’re falling into nothing
You can learn to fly
Just call
His name
Just call His name
Suddenly I wonder why I feel so alone
I know there’s something out there
Thought I’d suck it up and do it all on my own
Wish I'd known He does care
I'm haunted
And I know I should be afraid
Lay awake at night
Cry you know it’s not alright to feel like you’re falling into nothing
You can learn to fly
Just call
His name
Just call His name
Where do we go?
Call out His name
Lift up our hands
Completely ashamed
Give it all up
Dropping our pride
Rip us apart
Change us on the inside
Now change us now (we cry out to you we fall on our knees)
Lay awake at night
Cry you know it’s not alright to feel like you’re falling into nothing
You can learn to fly
Just call
His name
Just call His name
Lyrics submitted by imustbeBECKY
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does anyone know where i can get this song? i dont think it's on their new cd that's coming out, and it's not on old demos
Honestly this song was a lot like me just a few years ago. My best friend was very (and still is) into God and I wasn't and wanted to be but whenever I went to a church they rejected me because if my birthday 6/16/96.. ends with all 6's so I had no faith at all. I felt completely alone until I found him. I knew that there had to be something but I didn't think I could have him because I was always rejected, so as the song says "Thought I’d suck it up and do it all on my own, Wish I'd known He does care." Honestly God scared me. The chorus for me means that without him your going to fall into nothing, but with him you will fly because he will lift you up, you just need to call his name.
Where do we go?, Call out His name - When you can't do it alone you just call out to him Lift up our hands, Completely ashamed, Give it all up, Dropping our pride, Rip us apart, Change us on the inside, Now change us now (we cry out to you we fall on our knees) - Basicly give yourself to him and ask him to change you and take away your hardships and to help you when you need, to give you streangth when it's needed. Don't have your pride with him, just give it all up for him, he is there and will be no matter what.
BBaker, how can you get it so wrong?
This song is about wanting to find comfort in god and hear from him, but accepting that god truly wont reply because hes not there. This song is about the pain in having to accept that there is no god.
Same with you xosnoopy, your religious views cloud your judgement on this one.
Sorry to break it to you, but there actually is a God. Trust me! I should know! And even though u might think that He doesn't exist, He still loves <3 u! And, if u actually listen to the lyrics, she says "You can learn to fly Just call His name Just call His name." So, she's actually going back to Him and giving herself up to Him because she knows that she can't do this alone. I hope this makes u feel differently becuz there really IS a GOD and even though u might not think that He exsists, I KNOW that He is Alive!!! Please don't live a life apart from God! He loves u so MUCH!!! :)
I thought i should break it down since i have such a different view on this than most people, which to me makes more sense than other peoples. I think my new view on this would be that she has lost faith in the existence of god but in a way wants to find comfort in the idea of him anyways.
"A silhouette it taunts me." The shadow/idea of god is there but thats all.
"My lack of faith.. I should be afraid" Shes lost faith and knows she should be afraid because god isnt helping.
"its not alright to feel like your falling into nothing" Its not okay with her that theres no afterlife(fall into nothing).
"You can learn to fly Just call his name." Just/all you can do is call his name. The only way she is gonna find that comfort is to call out and hope hes there.
"Where do we go? call out his name, Lift up our hands completely ashamed.. cry out to you, we fall on our knees" See above, same idea. Wants comfort but is ashamed that she has to be so desperate(CRY out to him on her knees). Shes begging for god/comfort to show itself. "Change us on the inside" Help the horrible feeling shes been feeling inside.
"Suddenly I wonder why I feel so alone" After calling his name nothing happens, so she feels alone.
"I know theres something out there" (This is an agnostic view) Shes reassuring herself that theres something out there to find that comfort, even though its not showing as to be so.
"Thought id suck it up and do it all on my own, wish id known he does care" This gives it away. Shes decided shes gonna have to suck it up and live without him, but she wishes she knew that god cares."
Okay, I had to create an account just to tell you how wrong I feel you are. I think xosnoopy is right in saying that she had once again found God.<br /> <br /> "You can learn to fly, just call His name" By calling His name and finding Him, He will raise you up.<br /> <br /> "Suddenly I wonder why I feel so alone, I know there's something out there" She feels empty and alone without Him yet she knows that He's there.<br /> <br /> "Thought I'd suck it up and do it all on my own, wish I'd known He does care" She tried to fill the emptiness on her own and looking back she wishes that she would have known He truly does care.<br /> <br /> "Where do we go? Call out His name. Lift up our hands, completely ashamed. Give it all up, dropping our pride. Rip us apart, change us on the inside." She knows that He can help her and she has been blind not to see His presence. She's giving up her pride and asking Him to turn her heart towards Him.<br /> <br /> "Now change us now (we cry out to you we fall on our knees)" She's giving her all, begging God to change her heart so she can find Him in her life again.<br /> <br /> You are completely entitled to your opinion, this is just my personal view on the song's meaning, but there's no need for you to determine whether or not others' judgements are clouded. You didn't write the song, so there's no way you can be so sure of everything. Just saying. And besides, maybe YOUR religious views are clouding YOUR judgement and keeping YOU from seeing the true meaning of this song.