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.
Help wanted do you want to pay the bills?
Help wanted have unnecessary skills?
If a house is barely haunted
Do you think it's really real
Fill out an application, just be patient
You know the drill help wanted
Do you want to pay the bills? Help wanted
Have unnecessary skills?
If a house is barely haunted
Do you think it's really real
Fill out an application, just be patient
You know the drill as a veteran
I was settling into a life of self-pity
Living with my mother in my favorite city
She started getting on my case
About wasting my life
I missed the action of the Air
Force and the feeling of flight
"Get a job", she demanded
So I picked up the papers
Saw an ad that wasn't bad at
Least I wasn't a waiter
I was trained in computers
I was fit and athletic
I was tired of being a
Loser and feeling pathetic
So I went and interviewed I
Was a dude without options
The more questions she asked
The more my mind flashed caution
Do you believe in UFOs? yeah
I've had my fair share clairvoyance, ESP
Do you believe in what isn't there?
Atlantis and the Lochness
I was honestly scared
But I was desperate and upset
With just chilling in chairs
So I said, "The pay is steady
Then I'm willing and able"
She said, "You're hired" I was wired
I was suddenly stable
Help wanted do you want to pay the bills?
Help wanted have unnecessary skills?
If a house is barely haunted
Do you think it's really real
Fill out an application, just be patient
You know the drill help wanted
Do you want to pay the bills? Help wanted
Have unnecessary skills?
If a house is barely haunted
Do you think it's really real
Fill out an application, just be patient
You know the drill
I met the dudes in my crew
They were slimy and stinky
Took my down in the basement
Showed me a really big twinkie
I started thinking the back of
The bible was entirely right
I started seeing crazy shit that
Will turn you white
The dead rising from the grave
This is totally the end of days
At least I was getting paid
In spite of my mental state
Better than telling fortunes in Coney
Island with a cape
Better than birthday parties where I
Wasn't offered any cake
No occupation's perfect
I'm determined and devoted
Found a God in a painting
And a spectral locomotive
Sometimes the slime I find is the
Slime I can not handle
But I'm about to, said love
Jesus's style, his smile, his sandals
God is watching over me
Protecting me from dangers
Sometimes it's up to me to bust
A beast with binding lasers
I have tools, I have talent
It's a challenge when you're chosen
But I was born to bust a ghost
And all those chodes who oppose us
Help wanted do you want to pay the bills?
Help wanted have unnecessary skills?
If a house is barely haunted
Do you think it's really real
Fill out an application, just be patient
You know the drill help wanted
Do you want to pay the bills? Help wanted
Have unnecessary skills?
If a house is barely haunted
Do you think it's really real
Fill out an application, just be patient
You know the drill
Help wanted have unnecessary skills?
If a house is barely haunted
Do you think it's really real
Fill out an application, just be patient
You know the drill help wanted
Do you want to pay the bills? Help wanted
Have unnecessary skills?
If a house is barely haunted
Do you think it's really real
Fill out an application, just be patient
You know the drill as a veteran
I was settling into a life of self-pity
Living with my mother in my favorite city
She started getting on my case
About wasting my life
I missed the action of the Air
Force and the feeling of flight
"Get a job", she demanded
So I picked up the papers
Saw an ad that wasn't bad at
Least I wasn't a waiter
I was trained in computers
I was fit and athletic
I was tired of being a
Loser and feeling pathetic
So I went and interviewed I
Was a dude without options
The more questions she asked
The more my mind flashed caution
Do you believe in UFOs? yeah
I've had my fair share clairvoyance, ESP
Do you believe in what isn't there?
Atlantis and the Lochness
I was honestly scared
But I was desperate and upset
With just chilling in chairs
So I said, "The pay is steady
Then I'm willing and able"
She said, "You're hired" I was wired
I was suddenly stable
Help wanted do you want to pay the bills?
Help wanted have unnecessary skills?
If a house is barely haunted
Do you think it's really real
Fill out an application, just be patient
You know the drill help wanted
Do you want to pay the bills? Help wanted
Have unnecessary skills?
If a house is barely haunted
Do you think it's really real
Fill out an application, just be patient
You know the drill
I met the dudes in my crew
They were slimy and stinky
Took my down in the basement
Showed me a really big twinkie
I started thinking the back of
The bible was entirely right
I started seeing crazy shit that
Will turn you white
The dead rising from the grave
This is totally the end of days
At least I was getting paid
In spite of my mental state
Better than telling fortunes in Coney
Island with a cape
Better than birthday parties where I
Wasn't offered any cake
No occupation's perfect
I'm determined and devoted
Found a God in a painting
And a spectral locomotive
Sometimes the slime I find is the
Slime I can not handle
But I'm about to, said love
Jesus's style, his smile, his sandals
God is watching over me
Protecting me from dangers
Sometimes it's up to me to bust
A beast with binding lasers
I have tools, I have talent
It's a challenge when you're chosen
But I was born to bust a ghost
And all those chodes who oppose us
Help wanted do you want to pay the bills?
Help wanted have unnecessary skills?
If a house is barely haunted
Do you think it's really real
Fill out an application, just be patient
You know the drill help wanted
Do you want to pay the bills? Help wanted
Have unnecessary skills?
If a house is barely haunted
Do you think it's really real
Fill out an application, just be patient
You know the drill
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