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.
Do you know where you are?
No
I was talking to
The other day and
He told me that
The reason I guess so
I was angry
It was so strong
The flies in the dark
With their ways of
Shedding some light
Now I've lost all my day
I think they all very lucky
With internal parts like a lemon sunray
It's so easy to get lost in the mixture
When forces strike
Hard
You wear your real
Throw your shoe
I didn't think you were struggling
So long
With all of the wild things
That we could so young
I must have wrapped you up and left you hanging upside down
But I was too busy getting lost in
The big sound
The big sound
I traded but all life is saved and
To burn in those nights
And ask how are you mother?
If we could have just engaged
How to do things my weakness
In detecting other
But the worlds are all jumbled and faded
My heart is a nurse but
My tongue's in the blender
Now it's become something creative
I know it's not much but just let it right into your gut
And hold me up inside the days
The light will change its gifts every hour and hour
And the same things halt me me what's halting you
Lately I've been seeing things
They look like they float at the back of my head room
I don't find it strange when I'm talking to you
Lion in your dreams, the lion is you
But your dream, except that I am the lion,
Would probably try and come and risk you too
And when I get fucked up I
Do my best to make myself not fucked up again
And my heart and my lungs do
Why can't I do the same for everyone I love too?
I'm flying with you and you and me and if we don't close
I'm flying with you and you and me and if we don't close
Lately I've been seeing things
They look like they float at the back of my head room
I don't find it strange that I'm talking to you
The lion in your dreams, the lion is beautiful
Your dreams, except that I am the lion,
Would probably try and forward and risk you too
No
I was talking to
The other day and
He told me that
The reason I guess so
I was angry
It was so strong
The flies in the dark
With their ways of
Shedding some light
Now I've lost all my day
I think they all very lucky
With internal parts like a lemon sunray
It's so easy to get lost in the mixture
When forces strike
Hard
You wear your real
Throw your shoe
I didn't think you were struggling
So long
With all of the wild things
That we could so young
I must have wrapped you up and left you hanging upside down
But I was too busy getting lost in
The big sound
The big sound
I traded but all life is saved and
To burn in those nights
And ask how are you mother?
If we could have just engaged
How to do things my weakness
In detecting other
But the worlds are all jumbled and faded
My heart is a nurse but
My tongue's in the blender
Now it's become something creative
I know it's not much but just let it right into your gut
And hold me up inside the days
The light will change its gifts every hour and hour
And the same things halt me me what's halting you
Lately I've been seeing things
They look like they float at the back of my head room
I don't find it strange when I'm talking to you
Lion in your dreams, the lion is you
But your dream, except that I am the lion,
Would probably try and come and risk you too
And when I get fucked up I
Do my best to make myself not fucked up again
And my heart and my lungs do
Why can't I do the same for everyone I love too?
I'm flying with you and you and me and if we don't close
I'm flying with you and you and me and if we don't close
Lately I've been seeing things
They look like they float at the back of my head room
I don't find it strange that I'm talking to you
The lion in your dreams, the lion is beautiful
Your dreams, except that I am the lion,
Would probably try and forward and risk you too
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