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.
The blind will lead the blind again down a lonely path to hell
The fires await in the fading moon of another realm
The key is turned, it unlocks the grave, it awaits the dead
All casualties of a major plague under their command
Call out to them and they will follow
They are the rats that will beg and borrow
We’re crawling to extinction
The whole human race, we're crawling to extinction
Punks on parade as they play their games
They’re all one in the same
Lepers, tyrants, kings of disease
Send them to an early grave
Call out to them and they will follow
They are the rats that will beg and borrow
We’re crawling to extinction
The whole human race, we're crawling to extinction
I just can't take any more
All the lies and the spies with their tricks and their whores
We’re lost in a world of greed, all that you have is all that we need,
All that you have is all that we need
The fires await in the fading moon of another realm
The key is turned, it unlocks the grave, it awaits the dead
All casualties of a major plague under their command
Call out to them and they will follow
They are the rats that will beg and borrow
We’re crawling to extinction
The whole human race, we're crawling to extinction
Punks on parade as they play their games
They’re all one in the same
Lepers, tyrants, kings of disease
Send them to an early grave
Call out to them and they will follow
They are the rats that will beg and borrow
We’re crawling to extinction
The whole human race, we're crawling to extinction
I just can't take any more
All the lies and the spies with their tricks and their whores
We’re lost in a world of greed, all that you have is all that we need,
All that you have is all that we need
Lyrics submitted by Kingofstilport
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