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.
My baby surrendered to fate
And I couldn't even say how I felt later on that evening
Stating my name to the officer's aide was in vain
Cause I knew they were out to get me
Place four of five fingers flat on a sticky plastic bat
Scan my blue bloodshot eyes for the history of my trials
When crimes are passionate can love be separate?
When crimes are passionate can love be separate?
En route to my cell I retraced every step
And found a way to redact and retell my story
No evidence and no witness to summon or finesse
I confess, it all sounds unlikely
A sweaty, paranoid palm pressed against a leathered wall
The law in all its flaws, me in an oversized overall
When crimes are passionate can love be separate?
When crimes are passionate can love be separate?
Baby it's a bad, bad law
It's a bad, bad law, geronimo
Baby it's a bad, bad law
It's a bad, bad law, geronimo
I straddled out on the stand
My defense scrawled on my hand
Killed time and time again but then I lost again
When crimes are passionate can love be separate?
When crimes are passionate can love be separate?
Baby it's a bad, bad law
It's a bad, bad law, geronimo
Baby it's a bad, bad law
It's a bad, bad law, geronimo
Baby it's a bad, bad law
It's a bad, bad law, geronimo
Baby it's a bad, bad law
It's a bad, bad law, geronimo
Baby it's a bad, bad law
It's a bad, bad law, geronimo
And I couldn't even say how I felt later on that evening
Stating my name to the officer's aide was in vain
Cause I knew they were out to get me
Place four of five fingers flat on a sticky plastic bat
Scan my blue bloodshot eyes for the history of my trials
When crimes are passionate can love be separate?
When crimes are passionate can love be separate?
En route to my cell I retraced every step
And found a way to redact and retell my story
No evidence and no witness to summon or finesse
I confess, it all sounds unlikely
A sweaty, paranoid palm pressed against a leathered wall
The law in all its flaws, me in an oversized overall
When crimes are passionate can love be separate?
When crimes are passionate can love be separate?
Baby it's a bad, bad law
It's a bad, bad law, geronimo
Baby it's a bad, bad law
It's a bad, bad law, geronimo
I straddled out on the stand
My defense scrawled on my hand
Killed time and time again but then I lost again
When crimes are passionate can love be separate?
When crimes are passionate can love be separate?
Baby it's a bad, bad law
It's a bad, bad law, geronimo
Baby it's a bad, bad law
It's a bad, bad law, geronimo
Baby it's a bad, bad law
It's a bad, bad law, geronimo
Baby it's a bad, bad law
It's a bad, bad law, geronimo
Baby it's a bad, bad law
It's a bad, bad law, geronimo
Lyrics submitted by politiciandiva
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