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.
There's no well-beaten path
We left nothing along the way
Come too far to turn back
Let the chips fall where they may
Oh my life
I won't get a chance to go thru it twice
Oh my mind
Is holding on to things I left behind
They say that you gotta go to know
That you wanna come home
There is no shame till you know
There's right and wrong
We dipped ourselves in the river
But we never get clean
There's no way back to Eden
From what I've seen
Bless my old black dirty heart
Throw these memories away
I'll watch the sky for that morning star
And I will let it light my way
Oh this life
Is dragging us one and all out of paradise
Oh this time
Is over that hill and rolling down the other side
They say that you gotta go to know
That you wanna come home
There is no shame till you know
There's right and wrong
We dipped ourselves in the river
But we never get clean
There's no way back to Eden
From what I've seen
We left nothing along the way
Come too far to turn back
Let the chips fall where they may
Oh my life
I won't get a chance to go thru it twice
Oh my mind
Is holding on to things I left behind
They say that you gotta go to know
That you wanna come home
There is no shame till you know
There's right and wrong
We dipped ourselves in the river
But we never get clean
There's no way back to Eden
From what I've seen
Bless my old black dirty heart
Throw these memories away
I'll watch the sky for that morning star
And I will let it light my way
Oh this life
Is dragging us one and all out of paradise
Oh this time
Is over that hill and rolling down the other side
They say that you gotta go to know
That you wanna come home
There is no shame till you know
There's right and wrong
We dipped ourselves in the river
But we never get clean
There's no way back to Eden
From what I've seen
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