Matt Shadows their lead singer says the song was written as per request from the developers of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. Watching the initial trailers for the game & looking at production sketches reminded him of the 'S-Town' podcast & its main protagonist, John B. McLemore. Matt also comments specifically on the lyrics: "I decided that the lyrics would shadow McLemore's life." In 2012, antiquarian horologist John B. McLemore sent an email to the staff of the show 'This American Life' asking them to investigate an alleged murder in his hometown of Woodstock, Alabama, a place McLemore claimed to despise. After a year of exchanging emails & several months of conversation with McLemore, producer Brian Reed traveled to Woodstock to investigate. Reed investigated the crime & eventually found that no such murder took place, though he struck up a friendship with the depressed but colorful character of McLemore. He recorded conversations with McLemore & other people in Woodstock. McLemore killed himself by drinking potassium cyanide on June 22, 2015 while the podcast was still in production. In the narrative of the podcast, this occurs at the end of the second episode; subsequent episodes deal with the fallout from McLemore's death while exploring more of McLemore's life & character.
Close your eyes & see.
Let go - you'll be free.
Lose yourself in me.
Trust & you'll believe.
Trip with me, sleep with me, ride with me.
Trip with me, fly with me
Trust me.
Lost
Straighten my arms to feel it,
straighten my back to feel it,
straighten my legs to feel it,
aim my gun and shoot it.
Faces spinning 'round & changing shape & sounding
Like my mother, like my friend, like my lover, like this is my end.
Eyes shut & opening, mouth closed & swallowing,
my senses thickening, inside myself I'm becoming
Lost
Let go - you'll be free.
Lose yourself in me.
Trust & you'll believe.
Trip with me, sleep with me, ride with me.
Trip with me, fly with me
Trust me.
Lost
Straighten my arms to feel it,
straighten my back to feel it,
straighten my legs to feel it,
aim my gun and shoot it.
Faces spinning 'round & changing shape & sounding
Like my mother, like my friend, like my lover, like this is my end.
Eyes shut & opening, mouth closed & swallowing,
my senses thickening, inside myself I'm becoming
Lost
Lyrics submitted by theartistsleisure
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