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.
Want to get you in my heart again
Want to love you once more
Want to have you in my heart again
Want to get you once more
If you wanna love, if you wanna fight
It doesn't really matter, I want you tonight
When I get you home, what I wanna do
Babe, I wanna sample everything with you
Yes, I wanna love you, I don't wanna fight
I can think of something when I get you home tonight
All I want is loving, anything will do
I'm your glass of poison and I'm acting up on you
If you wanna love, if you wanna fight
It doesn't really matter, I want you tonight
If you wanna love, if you wanna fight
It doesn't really matter, I want you tonight
Yeah, you know what you got here
You got the same old story happening again
The eternal struggle, the destiny of man
It's the same old story, it's happening again
Life's eternal struggle, the destiny of man
If you wanna love, if you wanna fight
It doesn't really matter, I want you tonight
All I want is love, anything will do
I'm your glass of poison and I'm acting up on you
It's the same old song
Being sung in the background, being sung up front
But if you wanna get it right, you gotta listen
Heed my words, listen to me!
Anytime you want me, I'm not hard to find
I can't get your loving, I can't get you off my mind
But if I need you sometime, you got me here right now
We can work it out together, we'll get through this somehow
It's the same old story, it's happening again
Life's eternal struggle, the destiny of man
It's the same old story, it's happening again
Life's eternal struggle, the destiny of man
It's the same old story, it's happening again
Life's eternal struggle, the destiny of man
It's the same old story, it's happening again
Life's eternal struggle, the destiny of man
It's the same old story, it's happening again
Life's eternal struggle
Want to love you once more
Want to have you in my heart again
Want to get you once more
If you wanna love, if you wanna fight
It doesn't really matter, I want you tonight
When I get you home, what I wanna do
Babe, I wanna sample everything with you
Yes, I wanna love you, I don't wanna fight
I can think of something when I get you home tonight
All I want is loving, anything will do
I'm your glass of poison and I'm acting up on you
If you wanna love, if you wanna fight
It doesn't really matter, I want you tonight
If you wanna love, if you wanna fight
It doesn't really matter, I want you tonight
Yeah, you know what you got here
You got the same old story happening again
The eternal struggle, the destiny of man
It's the same old story, it's happening again
Life's eternal struggle, the destiny of man
If you wanna love, if you wanna fight
It doesn't really matter, I want you tonight
All I want is love, anything will do
I'm your glass of poison and I'm acting up on you
It's the same old song
Being sung in the background, being sung up front
But if you wanna get it right, you gotta listen
Heed my words, listen to me!
Anytime you want me, I'm not hard to find
I can't get your loving, I can't get you off my mind
But if I need you sometime, you got me here right now
We can work it out together, we'll get through this somehow
It's the same old story, it's happening again
Life's eternal struggle, the destiny of man
It's the same old story, it's happening again
Life's eternal struggle, the destiny of man
It's the same old story, it's happening again
Life's eternal struggle, the destiny of man
It's the same old story, it's happening again
Life's eternal struggle, the destiny of man
It's the same old story, it's happening again
Life's eternal struggle
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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