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.
She's just a working girl from Baltimore
She'll choose you
She's been there
She's been there and back again
It's in and out
It's up it's down
It's a mercenary
And you get what you need
When you walk on the streets of paradise
In vogue in the streets
Indecision
Yeah yeah yeah
White heat
In fashion
She'll take you home
She'll take you where you want to get back to
You're sweet sixteen
But you'll be a man tonight
It's to the wall
It's to the floor
She's in a hurry
But you get what you pay for
When you live on the streets of paradise
In heat in vogue
Impassioned
Yeah yeah yeah
White heat in fashion
Hard cash
Indiscrete
Wild passion
In heat
In vogue
In fashion
White heat
Cold passion
8th Avenue indecision
In heat on the street in fashion
In vogue in style
White heat cool looks hard cash
On the street
In vogue in style indiscretion
In trains in bars in heat
White heat
In vogue in fashion
Hard cash indiscrete wild passion
White heat in fashion
White heat in fashion
White heat in fashion
White heat indiscrete ignition
She'll choose you
She's been there
She's been there and back again
It's in and out
It's up it's down
It's a mercenary
And you get what you need
When you walk on the streets of paradise
In vogue in the streets
Indecision
Yeah yeah yeah
White heat
In fashion
She'll take you home
She'll take you where you want to get back to
You're sweet sixteen
But you'll be a man tonight
It's to the wall
It's to the floor
She's in a hurry
But you get what you pay for
When you live on the streets of paradise
In heat in vogue
Impassioned
Yeah yeah yeah
White heat in fashion
Hard cash
Indiscrete
Wild passion
In heat
In vogue
In fashion
White heat
Cold passion
8th Avenue indecision
In heat on the street in fashion
In vogue in style
White heat cool looks hard cash
On the street
In vogue in style indiscretion
In trains in bars in heat
White heat
In vogue in fashion
Hard cash indiscrete wild passion
White heat in fashion
White heat in fashion
White heat in fashion
White heat indiscrete ignition
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White Heat Lyrics as written by John Charles Waite
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