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.
Armies have conquered
And fallen in the end
Kingdoms have risen
Then buried by sand
The earth is our mother
She gives and she takes
She puts us to sleep and
In her light we'll awake
We'll all be forgotten
There's no endless fame
But everything we do
It's never in vain
We're part of a story
Part of a tale
We're all on this journey
No one's to stay
Where is it going
What is the way
Forests and deserts
Rivers, blue seas
Mountains and valleys
Nothing here stays
While we think we witness
We're part of the scene
This never-ending story
Where will it lead to
The earth is our mother
She gives and she takes
But she is also a part
A part of the tale
We're part of a story
Part of a tale
We're all on this journey
No one's to stay
Where is it going
What is the way
We're part of a story
Part of a tale
Sometimes beautiful
Sometimes insane
No one remembers how it began
We're part of a story
Part of a tale
We're all on this journey
No one's to stay
Where is it going
What is the way
We're part of a story
Part of a tale
Sometimes beautiful
Sometimes insane
No one remembers how it began
And fallen in the end
Kingdoms have risen
Then buried by sand
The earth is our mother
She gives and she takes
She puts us to sleep and
In her light we'll awake
We'll all be forgotten
There's no endless fame
But everything we do
It's never in vain
We're part of a story
Part of a tale
We're all on this journey
No one's to stay
Where is it going
What is the way
Forests and deserts
Rivers, blue seas
Mountains and valleys
Nothing here stays
While we think we witness
We're part of the scene
This never-ending story
Where will it lead to
The earth is our mother
She gives and she takes
But she is also a part
A part of the tale
We're part of a story
Part of a tale
We're all on this journey
No one's to stay
Where is it going
What is the way
We're part of a story
Part of a tale
Sometimes beautiful
Sometimes insane
No one remembers how it began
We're part of a story
Part of a tale
We're all on this journey
No one's to stay
Where is it going
What is the way
We're part of a story
Part of a tale
Sometimes beautiful
Sometimes insane
No one remembers how it began
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we're all part of something big, and in the end it doesn't really matter what you've done, because in a few centuries time you'll be completely forgotten anyway. love this song, and the lyrics are completely true =)