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.
Hey, is it you that makes me hollow?
Don't act the same.
Cleaning out a conscience.
Scream at the moon.
I hear it as it echoes.
I'll find out soon.
I never want to let you go.
Hey, am I picking at your head dear?
Don't you feel shame?
Is it weighing on your conscience?
Fall asleep in the arms of another man.
You're incomplete holding out an empty hand.
Something in the way you call my name
I'm seeing the difference.
Shake it off let it exit your system.
If time heals all then why's there still distance?
Keep those thoughts in the back of your head.
The back of your head.
The back of your head.
The back of your head.
Waiting on me to break apart
And shatter at your name.
Swim in delusion,
You've reached a conclusion,
Convinced that your skin's what I crave.
Caught in the moment,
No words to be spoken,
You're not the apple of my eye.
What does it take to keep the things that you say
The furthest thing from my mind?
All you wanted was that feeling.
All you wanted was that spark to glow and never fade away.
Something in the way you call my name
I'm seeing the difference.
Shake it off let it exit your system.
If time heals all then why's there still distance?
Keep those thoughts in the back of your head.
In the back of your head.
In the back of your head.
In the back of your head.
All you wanted was that feeling.
All you wanted was that feeling.
All you wanted was that feeling.
All you wanted was that feeling.
All you wanted was that feeling.
All you wanted was that feeling.
Don't act the same.
Cleaning out a conscience.
Scream at the moon.
I hear it as it echoes.
I'll find out soon.
I never want to let you go.
Hey, am I picking at your head dear?
Don't you feel shame?
Is it weighing on your conscience?
Fall asleep in the arms of another man.
You're incomplete holding out an empty hand.
Something in the way you call my name
I'm seeing the difference.
Shake it off let it exit your system.
If time heals all then why's there still distance?
Keep those thoughts in the back of your head.
The back of your head.
The back of your head.
The back of your head.
Waiting on me to break apart
And shatter at your name.
Swim in delusion,
You've reached a conclusion,
Convinced that your skin's what I crave.
Caught in the moment,
No words to be spoken,
You're not the apple of my eye.
What does it take to keep the things that you say
The furthest thing from my mind?
All you wanted was that feeling.
All you wanted was that spark to glow and never fade away.
Something in the way you call my name
I'm seeing the difference.
Shake it off let it exit your system.
If time heals all then why's there still distance?
Keep those thoughts in the back of your head.
In the back of your head.
In the back of your head.
In the back of your head.
All you wanted was that feeling.
All you wanted was that feeling.
All you wanted was that feeling.
All you wanted was that feeling.
All you wanted was that feeling.
All you wanted was that feeling.
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