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.
Release me
No remnants were ever found of it
Feeling the hot bile
With every fake smile
Though no evidence was ever found it never went away completely
I try to appellate a holy sound of it
Another day gone
Another night's drawn
Dark forces pull me underground and never went away completely
How can I feel this empty
I will not recover this time
This loneliness is killing me
Will I ever know peace of mind again
I don't believe it
I can't achieve it
I think I know it's just another sign that never went away completely
Terror is coursing in me
Can you find a moment
Where I have to be
And feel you die
In asylum (I live a lie)
Don't you know I'm in love with you and I wasn't ready
For asylum (relive a lie)
To let go
Now it's dragging me into your grave
Your asylum (forget the lie)
Overcome and the feeling that I won't get to join you in time
But the loneliness is killing me, yeah!
Death's images are all around again
They're right behind me
They're gonna find me
Judge me for my mortal sin that have enveloped me completely
I know I'll never know a peaceful night again
Afraid they'll hear me
They don't fear me
Punishment for me of a moral crime the debt was never paid completely
Terror is coursing in me
Can you find a moment
Where I have to be
And feel you die
In asylum (I live a lie)
Don't you know I'm in love with you and I wasn't ready
For asylum (relive a lie)
To let go
Now it's dragging me into your grave
Your asylum (forget the lie)
Overcome and the feeling that I won't get to join you in time
But the loneliness is killing me
In the end there will be no suffering (more suffering)
In the end we will find out everything (not everything)
In the end you may question your belief (what belief?)
In the end you will realize someday
How you were deceived
This has gone on too long (too long)
No more demonic race
Destroyer come to light
Because the memory is killing me
In asylum (I live a lie)
I let go now it's dragging me into your grave
For asylum (we live a lie)
Overcome and the feeling that I won't get to join you time (without you)
This world is not fulfilling me
Don't make me live in asylum
I live alive
Don't want to live in asylum
I live a lie
Don't make me live in asylum
I am a lie
No remnants were ever found of it
Feeling the hot bile
With every fake smile
Though no evidence was ever found it never went away completely
I try to appellate a holy sound of it
Another day gone
Another night's drawn
Dark forces pull me underground and never went away completely
How can I feel this empty
I will not recover this time
This loneliness is killing me
Will I ever know peace of mind again
I don't believe it
I can't achieve it
I think I know it's just another sign that never went away completely
Terror is coursing in me
Can you find a moment
Where I have to be
And feel you die
In asylum (I live a lie)
Don't you know I'm in love with you and I wasn't ready
For asylum (relive a lie)
To let go
Now it's dragging me into your grave
Your asylum (forget the lie)
Overcome and the feeling that I won't get to join you in time
But the loneliness is killing me, yeah!
Death's images are all around again
They're right behind me
They're gonna find me
Judge me for my mortal sin that have enveloped me completely
I know I'll never know a peaceful night again
Afraid they'll hear me
They don't fear me
Punishment for me of a moral crime the debt was never paid completely
Terror is coursing in me
Can you find a moment
Where I have to be
And feel you die
In asylum (I live a lie)
Don't you know I'm in love with you and I wasn't ready
For asylum (relive a lie)
To let go
Now it's dragging me into your grave
Your asylum (forget the lie)
Overcome and the feeling that I won't get to join you in time
But the loneliness is killing me
In the end there will be no suffering (more suffering)
In the end we will find out everything (not everything)
In the end you may question your belief (what belief?)
In the end you will realize someday
How you were deceived
This has gone on too long (too long)
No more demonic race
Destroyer come to light
Because the memory is killing me
In asylum (I live a lie)
I let go now it's dragging me into your grave
For asylum (we live a lie)
Overcome and the feeling that I won't get to join you time (without you)
This world is not fulfilling me
Don't make me live in asylum
I live alive
Don't want to live in asylum
I live a lie
Don't make me live in asylum
I am a lie
Lyrics submitted by vane111391, edited by hollowwolf, taylorkeene
Asylum Lyrics as written by David Draiman Dan Donegan
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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This song is in relation to "Inside the fire" from the last album. He is following up on how he is dealing with the loss of his Ex from his teenage years. She committed suicide and inside the fire was his Catharsis and I guess this is his follow up to how he is doing mentally. David has been going through a lot mentally with that traumatic experience. in fact he said that before or during the last album he started having those nightmares again about witnessing what had happened. So the song inside the fire was from Satan's point of view trying to get him to reunite in hell with his ex. This song is a direct follow up of him still trying to finally bury those memories and find peace with what has happened.
Song writers/musicians use songs to come to terms with traumatic experiences all the time. This is David's way of trying to come to peace with what happened. I do hope these 2 songs help him through it. He has explained in interviews in great detail what happened and how he is coping with it.
I forgot to add, the imagery david discussed in inside the fire was satan saying that he can reunite with his loved one by taking the plunge into the fire.(Meaning hell.)