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.
"Well I see it so much"
Before you test, know what's going on,
I've been around for long, my evil is strong
I lie awake and hate you,
Maybe that's strong enough to make you
12 12 catch up
Before you test, know what's going on,
I've been around for long, my evil is strong
I lie awake and hate you,
Maybe that's strong enough to make something happen-
A car crash, make you pay with a weapon
A gun in your mouth, my voice in your mind.
Before you test, know what's going on,
I've been around for long, my evil is strong
I lie awake and hate you
Maybe that's enough to make you do something-
Make it happen
A car crash, make you pay with a weapon
A gun in your mouth, my voice in your mind.
Sleep and I'll find you,
Put my mind to
Am I strong enough?
Watch me rock a thousand stage
My funny valentine, I don't find you funny
Seaside, the Sony, the fame the money
Who am I to say, do you wannabe?
No, I can't say it
My mouth is like a
Bitter sweet and twisted, deceitful and gifted
Even got god scared
Mend the things we did
Making children
Strong enough to take a life,
Are you strong enough to take care of one?
I'm a work on it, pray on it, stay on (in) it and stay in it
Before you test, know what's going on,
I've been around for long, my evil is strong
I lie awake and hate you
Maybe that's enough to make something happen,
A car crash, make you pay with a weapon
A gun in your mouth, my voice in your mind
Sleep and I'll find you,
Put my mind to
Am I strong enough?
Watch me rock a 50,000 stage
Cannot tell me-do you feel it?
Is this energy strong enough to work you like a blade?
I'm a work on it, pray on it, stay on it
My funny valentine, I don't find you funny
Seaside, the Sony
The fame, the money
Who am I to say, do you wannabe?
No, I can't say it
My mouth is like a
Bitter sweet and twisted,
Deceitful and gifted,
Even got god scared
Mend the things we do
Making children strong enough to take a life
Are you strong enough to look after one?
I'm a work on it, pray on it, stay in it
My funny valentine, I never find you funny
Seaside, the Sony,
The fame, the Money
Who am I to say?
Still want to be?
No, I can't say it
My mouth is like a
Bitter sweet and twisted,
Deceitful, rough and gifted,
Even got god scared
Even God's--God's scared
Mend the things we do
Making children strong enough to take a life,
But are you strong enough to take care of one?
I'm a work on it, pray on it, stay in it
Before you test, know what's going on,
I've been around for long, my evil is strong
I lie awake and hate you,
Maybe that's strong enough to make you
12 12 catch up
Before you test, know what's going on,
I've been around for long, my evil is strong
I lie awake and hate you,
Maybe that's strong enough to make something happen-
A car crash, make you pay with a weapon
A gun in your mouth, my voice in your mind.
Before you test, know what's going on,
I've been around for long, my evil is strong
I lie awake and hate you
Maybe that's enough to make you do something-
Make it happen
A car crash, make you pay with a weapon
A gun in your mouth, my voice in your mind.
Sleep and I'll find you,
Put my mind to
Am I strong enough?
Watch me rock a thousand stage
My funny valentine, I don't find you funny
Seaside, the Sony, the fame the money
Who am I to say, do you wannabe?
No, I can't say it
My mouth is like a
Bitter sweet and twisted, deceitful and gifted
Even got god scared
Mend the things we did
Making children
Strong enough to take a life,
Are you strong enough to take care of one?
I'm a work on it, pray on it, stay on (in) it and stay in it
Before you test, know what's going on,
I've been around for long, my evil is strong
I lie awake and hate you
Maybe that's enough to make something happen,
A car crash, make you pay with a weapon
A gun in your mouth, my voice in your mind
Sleep and I'll find you,
Put my mind to
Am I strong enough?
Watch me rock a 50,000 stage
Cannot tell me-do you feel it?
Is this energy strong enough to work you like a blade?
I'm a work on it, pray on it, stay on it
My funny valentine, I don't find you funny
Seaside, the Sony
The fame, the money
Who am I to say, do you wannabe?
No, I can't say it
My mouth is like a
Bitter sweet and twisted,
Deceitful and gifted,
Even got god scared
Mend the things we do
Making children strong enough to take a life
Are you strong enough to look after one?
I'm a work on it, pray on it, stay in it
My funny valentine, I never find you funny
Seaside, the Sony,
The fame, the Money
Who am I to say?
Still want to be?
No, I can't say it
My mouth is like a
Bitter sweet and twisted,
Deceitful, rough and gifted,
Even got god scared
Even God's--God's scared
Mend the things we do
Making children strong enough to take a life,
But are you strong enough to take care of one?
I'm a work on it, pray on it, stay in it
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Its Tricky, so he tends to use fairly abstract and suggestive lyrics, but I think the narrator is basically stuck in a long-term relationship he’s not terribly enthralled with, is at the point where his significant other is asking to have his kid (“Making children… are you strong enough to take care of one…”) and is basically bitter enough that he’s fantasizing he can just wish her dead and be done with the relationship (‘I lie awake and hate you/Maybe that’s wrong enough to make you…Make you play with a weapon/A gun in your mouth, my voice in your mind’).
Pretty dark subject matter, like so much of the album it appears in.