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.
I've been tryin' real hard
To realize
But somethings take a long long
Long long time (a long time)
Hold the phone
Hit repeat
You got me foamin' at the knees
Saw the flame tasted sin
You burned me once again
Cut the cord, she's a creep
Aberdeen
Way back
Way back
Way back
Never saw my dark side
In, in your eyes
Back and forth bloody fingers
Paintin' up the sky
The sky
Hold the phone
Hit repeat
You got me foamin' at the knees
Saw the flame tasted sin
You burned me once again
Cut the cord, she's a creep
Aberdeen
Way back
Way back
Way back
Hold the phone
Hit repeat
You got me foamin' at the knees
Saw the flame tasted sin
You burned me once again
Cut the cord, she's a creep
Aberdeen
Way back
Way back
Way back
To realize
But somethings take a long long
Long long time (a long time)
Hold the phone
Hit repeat
You got me foamin' at the knees
Saw the flame tasted sin
You burned me once again
Cut the cord, she's a creep
Aberdeen
Way back
Way back
Way back
Never saw my dark side
In, in your eyes
Back and forth bloody fingers
Paintin' up the sky
The sky
Hold the phone
Hit repeat
You got me foamin' at the knees
Saw the flame tasted sin
You burned me once again
Cut the cord, she's a creep
Aberdeen
Way back
Way back
Way back
Hold the phone
Hit repeat
You got me foamin' at the knees
Saw the flame tasted sin
You burned me once again
Cut the cord, she's a creep
Aberdeen
Way back
Way back
Way back
Lyrics submitted by awholelottabang, edited by vyachslav1
Aberdeen Lyrics as written by Donald Bradley Shultz Matthew Ray Shultz
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From Covington KY. Lived in Lexington for 3 years. Not so sure if this is a COMPLETE reference to Aberdeen KY, but I think it is a reference to the addiction/affliction that curses all of Cincinnati and the lower mid-east cities such Louisville, Bowling Green, and others. Opiates / Heroin is the biggest and almost exclusive drug of the ENTIRE metropolitan statistical area