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.
I am afraid of the dark
Because that's where I live
A body without meaning
My own disfigured limbs
I shall not speak of fear
But something far beyond it
A world which I've created
But in which I cannot live
A light surrounds my coffin
Where the meeting of two worlds collide
No skeleton to offer, hung upon a cross
I have doomed myself to stay paralyzed
The death of dream's creation
Lord of the Flies
This tomb we call the earth cannot rectify
The nothingness of being
Lord of the Flies
Ties that will bind you unto me in death and in sleep
This is plague
The withered flesh of souls who have stopped searching
Never will you rest
Perhaps I am speaking from under a veil
My heart and I lay bleeding
Tears of angels who've failed
Children, come and take me by the hand
Then you will learn to understand
That fire is fire and sand is sand
Come take me by the hand
Lost in a thought called freedom
I seek a form of escape, I wake alone and weeping
To find my features erased
A light surrounds my coffin
Where the meeting of two worlds collide
No skeleton to offer, hung upon a cross
I have doomed myself to stay paralyzed
The death of dream's creation
Lord of the Flies
This tomb we call the earth cannot rectify
The nothingness of being
Lord of the Flies
Ties that will bind you unto me in death and in sleep
This is plague
The withered flesh of souls who have stopped searching
Never will you rest, never will you rest
This is the world in which we live
The darkened path on which we crawl
Never to rise
We climb only to fall
I have made a land of resin
In my hand lies the key
You must take it
Because that's where I live
A body without meaning
My own disfigured limbs
I shall not speak of fear
But something far beyond it
A world which I've created
But in which I cannot live
A light surrounds my coffin
Where the meeting of two worlds collide
No skeleton to offer, hung upon a cross
I have doomed myself to stay paralyzed
The death of dream's creation
Lord of the Flies
This tomb we call the earth cannot rectify
The nothingness of being
Lord of the Flies
Ties that will bind you unto me in death and in sleep
This is plague
The withered flesh of souls who have stopped searching
Never will you rest
Perhaps I am speaking from under a veil
My heart and I lay bleeding
Tears of angels who've failed
Children, come and take me by the hand
Then you will learn to understand
That fire is fire and sand is sand
Come take me by the hand
Lost in a thought called freedom
I seek a form of escape, I wake alone and weeping
To find my features erased
A light surrounds my coffin
Where the meeting of two worlds collide
No skeleton to offer, hung upon a cross
I have doomed myself to stay paralyzed
The death of dream's creation
Lord of the Flies
This tomb we call the earth cannot rectify
The nothingness of being
Lord of the Flies
Ties that will bind you unto me in death and in sleep
This is plague
The withered flesh of souls who have stopped searching
Never will you rest, never will you rest
This is the world in which we live
The darkened path on which we crawl
Never to rise
We climb only to fall
I have made a land of resin
In my hand lies the key
You must take it
Lyrics submitted by IniquitatisRex
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