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.
Oh, when you were young and your excitement showed
But as time goes by is it outgrown?
Is that the way things go? Forever reaching for the gold
Forever fading black and comes up cold
Walking free, oh, come with me, oh
Far away, oh, everyday, oh
Walking free, oh, come with me, oh
Far away, oh, everyday, oh
When you were young, you never knew which way you'd go
What once was grace now undertows
Well everyday do what you can, and if you let them turn you 'round
Whatever goes up must come down
Walking free, oh, come with me, oh
Far away, oh, everyday, oh
Walking free, oh, come with me, oh
Far away, oh, everyday, oh
But as time goes by is it outgrown?
Is that the way things go? Forever reaching for the gold
Forever fading black and comes up cold
Walking free, oh, come with me, oh
Far away, oh, everyday, oh
Walking free, oh, come with me, oh
Far away, oh, everyday, oh
When you were young, you never knew which way you'd go
What once was grace now undertows
Well everyday do what you can, and if you let them turn you 'round
Whatever goes up must come down
Walking free, oh, come with me, oh
Far away, oh, everyday, oh
Walking free, oh, come with me, oh
Far away, oh, everyday, oh
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to me it talks about the dichotomy of existence...as children, finding joy was simple because you trusted your life to others (your parents) as we become adults we search through all kinds of ways to fill the void the develops as the complete and utter trustful dependence on others shifts into a reliance on ourselves.
we try to fill these voids with a self salvation of sorts- work, family, friends, sex, drugs, booze...."whatever goes up must come down" ...indicates the transient nature and non-dependable nature of these dependencies.
"Walking free. Come with me. Far away. Everyday."---Walk with Christ to the Christian is a teneat of old Pauline Christianity to leave dependence to the intransient love of God and dependence on Him to be free...something people in stages of Christian faith growth have firm understanding of.
Of course Buddhist philosophy as one poster already alluded to can also be a route to selfless dependence on the eternal rather than the temporal, earthly fillers of our search for completeness.
This song says look to where we were when we were content and rich and walk with Him or him in the road to returning to complete freedom and contentment.