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 gods and the saint preserve you,
'cause nobody here deserves you,
I'm living my life in flashback,
Since I lost my card or cashback,
And I've gone to wrack and ruin,
Since I don't know what you're doing,
There's no clear or present danger
That I see in any stranger.
Someone, somewhere said to me,
Will someone somewhere set me free,
won't hurry up or harry me,
Will someone somewhere marry me
To you, to you, to you, to you.
The line on the screen has broken,
What once was asleep has woken,
I cover your face in make-up praying
You'll one day wake up,
I've littered my life with magic,
Yet I'm neither dead nor tragic,
The gods and the saints preserve you
'cause nobody here deserves you.
Someone, somewhere said to me,
Will someone somewhere set me free,
From all that I'm supposed to be,
Will someone somewhere marry me
To you, to you, to you, to you.
Someone, somewhere said to me,
won't someone somewhere marry me
won't hurry up or harry me,
Will someone somewhere marry me
To you, to you, to you, to you.
'cause nobody here deserves you,
I'm living my life in flashback,
Since I lost my card or cashback,
And I've gone to wrack and ruin,
Since I don't know what you're doing,
There's no clear or present danger
That I see in any stranger.
Someone, somewhere said to me,
Will someone somewhere set me free,
won't hurry up or harry me,
Will someone somewhere marry me
To you, to you, to you, to you.
The line on the screen has broken,
What once was asleep has woken,
I cover your face in make-up praying
You'll one day wake up,
I've littered my life with magic,
Yet I'm neither dead nor tragic,
The gods and the saints preserve you
'cause nobody here deserves you.
Someone, somewhere said to me,
Will someone somewhere set me free,
From all that I'm supposed to be,
Will someone somewhere marry me
To you, to you, to you, to you.
Someone, somewhere said to me,
won't someone somewhere marry me
won't hurry up or harry me,
Will someone somewhere marry me
To you, to you, to you, to you.
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A girl I fell in love with a few times is working at a video rental shop where they´re also selling second-hand cds. So I went by to visit her at work and to browse through the cds. I heard some songs of "I am Kloot" before but I never listened to their first album. She asked me, if she should play it on the stores sound system so I could listen to it. I agreed and it took my breath as we were listening to the first song and she was walking towards me... it fitted so perfectly!
I always wanted her so bad but she was never interested in me beyond a platonic level. And every time I realized that she doesn´t like me the way I like her, I was feeling desperate... exactly like the guy in the song....