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.
No one can stop it all from crashin' down to shit
Push to feel something more than just the sound of it
Time, time is the magic truth of storing
Sometimes, magic is so very, very boring
It's a healthy kind of sick
A slow sort of quick
I'm very sad I don't feel bad at all
It's a different sort of same
A crazy kind of same
A feeling without a name that they call love
Because I have my doubts, I know it must be true
Watch the dreamed eye every day, I don't know what to do
I know it's only fear that makes me wonder
But I wonder why I'm so afraid, I wonder why I'm so afraid
Push to feel something more than just the sound of it
Time, time is the magic truth of storing
Sometimes, magic is so very, very boring
It's a healthy kind of sick
A slow sort of quick
I'm very sad I don't feel bad at all
It's a different sort of same
A crazy kind of same
A feeling without a name that they call love
Because I have my doubts, I know it must be true
Watch the dreamed eye every day, I don't know what to do
I know it's only fear that makes me wonder
But I wonder why I'm so afraid, I wonder why I'm so afraid
Lyrics submitted by foreverdrone, edited by zambeza
Healthy Sick Lyrics as written by Louis Knox Barlow
Lyrics © DOMINO PUBLISHING COMPANY
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