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 ice is thin, come on dive in
Underneath my lucid skin
The cold is lost, forgotten
Hours pass, days pass, time stood still
Light gets dark and darkness fills
My secret heart forbidden
I think you worried for me then
The subtle way that I'd give in, but I know
You like the show
Tied down to this bed of shame
You tried to move around the pain but, oh
Your soul is anchored
The only comfort is the moving of the river
You enter into me, a lie upon your lips
Offer what you can, I'll take all that I can get
Only a fool's here
Well, I don't like your tragic sighs
As if your god has passed you by
Well, hey fool
That's your deception
Your angels speak with jilted tongues
The serpent's tale has come undone
You have no strength to squander
The only comfort is the moving of the river
You enter into me, a lie upon your lips
Offer what you can, I'll take all that I can get
Only a fool's here to stay
Only a fool's here to stay
Only a fool's here
Underneath my lucid skin
The cold is lost, forgotten
Hours pass, days pass, time stood still
Light gets dark and darkness fills
My secret heart forbidden
I think you worried for me then
The subtle way that I'd give in, but I know
You like the show
Tied down to this bed of shame
You tried to move around the pain but, oh
Your soul is anchored
The only comfort is the moving of the river
You enter into me, a lie upon your lips
Offer what you can, I'll take all that I can get
Only a fool's here
Well, I don't like your tragic sighs
As if your god has passed you by
Well, hey fool
That's your deception
Your angels speak with jilted tongues
The serpent's tale has come undone
You have no strength to squander
The only comfort is the moving of the river
You enter into me, a lie upon your lips
Offer what you can, I'll take all that I can get
Only a fool's here to stay
Only a fool's here to stay
Only a fool's here
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