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.
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You squeeze the life, right out of me
Like sapping the juice of a bumblebee
And then you call me honey
You say it once and it isn't funny
When you say it again
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Now in sight there's a style, going on
A head full of dreams only room for one
Now I know you can live without me
But I've no doubt that you'll never doubt me
Like you did before
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Now we're pumping out love, into the sea
I'm full bodied and bursting with energy
Warm-blooded your engines are running
But where you're going I'm not coming
'Cause I'm happy here
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Happy here
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Say it again
Say it again, woo
Now we've found a rock-, -steady beat
Now all we need is a melody
And words that mean something are nothing
So we're cold here in single longing
'Till we say it again
Say it again
If there's trouble ahead, it won't be bothering me
With no future I live on a memory
I'm dried of thoughts but my nose is running
You say what you think but I know I'm funny
I'll say it again
Say it again
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Say it again
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Say it again
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Don't say it again
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Ooh
You squeeze the life, right out of me
Like sapping the juice of a bumblebee
And then you call me honey
You say it once and it isn't funny
When you say it again
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Now in sight there's a style, going on
A head full of dreams only room for one
Now I know you can live without me
But I've no doubt that you'll never doubt me
Like you did before
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Now we're pumping out love, into the sea
I'm full bodied and bursting with energy
Warm-blooded your engines are running
But where you're going I'm not coming
'Cause I'm happy here
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Happy here
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Say it again
Say it again, woo
Now we've found a rock-, -steady beat
Now all we need is a melody
And words that mean something are nothing
So we're cold here in single longing
'Till we say it again
Say it again
If there's trouble ahead, it won't be bothering me
With no future I live on a memory
I'm dried of thoughts but my nose is running
You say what you think but I know I'm funny
I'll say it again
Say it again
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Say it again
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
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Say it again
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Don't say it again
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Say it again
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Say it again
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Don't say it again
Say it again
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