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.
Is this justifiable, this is life we lead
Blind stares at what we call humanity
So afraid to face what has already become of us
The dark cloud passed lifetimes ago
The saints drink the blood of their own
Your pathetic prayers mean nothing for
Our mother is already dead
She tried her best but the dirt choked her
We raped her, and laughed as we fucked her last chance of survival
I sleep on her tears
They keep me awake
I fear that closing my eyes might end me
But what am I?
I'm just a worthless member of a twisted language
We all speak this twisted language, is this justifiable?
We have raped her, and we are pleasured from this
Thinking this progress
Progress stopped lifetimes ago
We are raping with this life we lead
Everything is alright
Lies, the twisted language we all breathe
Blind stares at what we call humanity
So afraid to face what has already become of us
The dark cloud passed lifetimes ago
The saints drink the blood of their own
Your pathetic prayers mean nothing for
Our mother is already dead
She tried her best but the dirt choked her
We raped her, and laughed as we fucked her last chance of survival
I sleep on her tears
They keep me awake
I fear that closing my eyes might end me
But what am I?
I'm just a worthless member of a twisted language
We all speak this twisted language, is this justifiable?
We have raped her, and we are pleasured from this
Thinking this progress
Progress stopped lifetimes ago
We are raping with this life we lead
Everything is alright
Lies, the twisted language we all breathe
Lyrics submitted by hXc_Pride, edited by Mellow_Harsher
What We Have Become Lyrics as written by Thomas Giles Roger Paul Andrew Waggoner
Lyrics © BTBAM PUBLISHING
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"This song is very old and way more straightforward than most of my lyrics. I wrote it around the same time as "more of myself to kill", as you can probably tell. This song basically is just me saying how displeased I am with the human species. We ruin everything around us, and we are the most unintelligent animals alive. Yes I do fall into the category of the human animal, and I too think of myself as a disease. We¹re all hypocrites and we all destroy. -tommy" ----------from the bands website
hahahahahahahaa...i lvoe this band.
hahahahahahahaa...i lvoe this band.
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"This song is very old and way more straightforward than most of my lyrics. I wrote it around the same time as "more of myself to kill", as you can probably tell. This song basically is just me saying how displeased I am with the human species. We ruin everything around us, and we are the most unintelligent animals alive. Yes I do fall into the category of the human animal, and I too think of myself as a disease. We¹re all hypocrites and we all destroy. -tommy"
Well, yes that makes sense since he said it, but I highly doubt tommy hates the human race as much as he says he does, it sounds more for publicity. And F.Y.I. tommy is kind of a human being too. But anyway I thought it was clever how "raping our mother" is actually the raping of mother earth and how we bulldozed it and made skyscrapers and felt satisfied with how it looked. Pretty good song.