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.
They say everything can be replaced
Yet every distance is not near
So I remember every face
Of every man who put me here
I see my light come shinin'
From the west unto the east
Any day now, any day now
I shall be released
They say every man needs protection
They say every man must fall
But I swear I see my reflection
Somewhere so high above this wall
I see my light come shining
From the west unto the east
Any day now, any day now
I shall be released
Standing next to me in this lonely crowd
Is a man who swears he's not to blame
Every night, I hear him shout so loud
Crying out that he's been framed
I see my light come shinin'
From the west unto the east
Any day now, any day now
I shall be released
I see my light come shinin'
From the west unto the east
Any day now, any day now
I shall be released
Thank you!
Yet every distance is not near
So I remember every face
Of every man who put me here
I see my light come shinin'
From the west unto the east
Any day now, any day now
I shall be released
They say every man needs protection
They say every man must fall
But I swear I see my reflection
Somewhere so high above this wall
I see my light come shining
From the west unto the east
Any day now, any day now
I shall be released
Standing next to me in this lonely crowd
Is a man who swears he's not to blame
Every night, I hear him shout so loud
Crying out that he's been framed
I see my light come shinin'
From the west unto the east
Any day now, any day now
I shall be released
I see my light come shinin'
From the west unto the east
Any day now, any day now
I shall be released
Thank you!
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I Shall Be Released [Live] Lyrics as written by Bob Dylan
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