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.
She laughs like a child
One who can't understand
Why she lives her whole life
With her head in her hands
And she's always in pain
That's what makes her
So wonderfully strange
She laughs like a child
One who likes to pretend
That she lives for today
Though she prays for the end
And she's never the same
That's what makes her
So wonderfully strange
She's so up and down
Like the sun and the earth
And she swears, and she swears
She remembers the day
Of he birth
That's the day she became
So wonderfully strange
Oh yeah, she's so wonderfully strange
It may take some time
To digest what she said
Or begin to hear the
Symphony playin' in her head
It's the place were she lives
She's so wonderfully strange
She's so up and down
Like the sun and the earth
And she swears, and she swears
She remembers the day
Of her birth
That's the day she became
So wonderfully strange
Oh yeah, she's so wonderfully strange
Oh yeah, she's so wonderfully...
She lives in the dark
Like a tired little girl
She begs to be loved
But she hates to be lonely
Such a tragic fantasy
She laughs like a child
One who likes to pretend
That she lives for today
Though she prays for the end
And she's never the same
That's what makes her
So wonderfully strange
She's so up and down
Like the sun and the earth
And she swears, and she swears
She remembers the day
Of her birth
That's the day she became
So wonderfully strange
Oh yeah, she's so wonderfully strange
Oh yeah, she's so wonderfully strange
Oh yeah, she's so wonderfully strange
Oh yeah, so wonderfully...
[Fades to End]
She's so wonderfully strange
She's so wonderfully strange
She's so wonderfully strange
She's so wonderfully strange
She's so wonderfully strange
She's so wonderfully strange
One who can't understand
Why she lives her whole life
With her head in her hands
And she's always in pain
That's what makes her
So wonderfully strange
She laughs like a child
One who likes to pretend
That she lives for today
Though she prays for the end
And she's never the same
That's what makes her
So wonderfully strange
She's so up and down
Like the sun and the earth
And she swears, and she swears
She remembers the day
Of he birth
That's the day she became
So wonderfully strange
Oh yeah, she's so wonderfully strange
It may take some time
To digest what she said
Or begin to hear the
Symphony playin' in her head
It's the place were she lives
She's so wonderfully strange
She's so up and down
Like the sun and the earth
And she swears, and she swears
She remembers the day
Of her birth
That's the day she became
So wonderfully strange
Oh yeah, she's so wonderfully strange
Oh yeah, she's so wonderfully...
She lives in the dark
Like a tired little girl
She begs to be loved
But she hates to be lonely
Such a tragic fantasy
She laughs like a child
One who likes to pretend
That she lives for today
Though she prays for the end
And she's never the same
That's what makes her
So wonderfully strange
She's so up and down
Like the sun and the earth
And she swears, and she swears
She remembers the day
Of her birth
That's the day she became
So wonderfully strange
Oh yeah, she's so wonderfully strange
Oh yeah, she's so wonderfully strange
Oh yeah, she's so wonderfully strange
Oh yeah, so wonderfully...
[Fades to End]
She's so wonderfully strange
She's so wonderfully strange
She's so wonderfully strange
She's so wonderfully strange
She's so wonderfully strange
She's so wonderfully strange
Lyrics submitted by LiLAngelChic410
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