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.
Where does my lover lie
I don't love, I just lie
So pray, pray for me
And where you run
I run in tow
And where you're from
I long to know
How does a child know
Where mother's weakness goes
And where, and where the trouble grows
Well you will speak
And it shall be so
And what you say
Will be all I know
There was a time of weeks
I thought dogs barked at me
And I, and I had lost my mind
And the devil had put
His mark on me
And calls his branches
Shake your trees
That's not me from a-trying
That's the devil and his lying
Trying to make me lose my mind
So pray, oh pray for me
So you got my letter late
From when I permanently etched my name
Right, right into your soul
I cannot love
I want to be alone
I will not love
I want to be alone
That's not me from a-trying
That's the devil and his lying
Trying to make me when I'm trying to be good
So pray, pray for me
But where he runs
I run in tow
And where you're from
I long to know
And you will speak
And it shall be so
I cannot love
I want to be alone
Pray, pray for me
I don't love, I just lie
So pray, pray for me
And where you run
I run in tow
And where you're from
I long to know
How does a child know
Where mother's weakness goes
And where, and where the trouble grows
Well you will speak
And it shall be so
And what you say
Will be all I know
There was a time of weeks
I thought dogs barked at me
And I, and I had lost my mind
And the devil had put
His mark on me
And calls his branches
Shake your trees
That's not me from a-trying
That's the devil and his lying
Trying to make me lose my mind
So pray, oh pray for me
So you got my letter late
From when I permanently etched my name
Right, right into your soul
I cannot love
I want to be alone
I will not love
I want to be alone
That's not me from a-trying
That's the devil and his lying
Trying to make me when I'm trying to be good
So pray, pray for me
But where he runs
I run in tow
And where you're from
I long to know
And you will speak
And it shall be so
I cannot love
I want to be alone
Pray, pray for me
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Pray for Me Lyrics as written by Laura Beatrice Marling
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