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.
Forth after dark... a time I do know
In my kingdom... I enter to my own world
Open the gate... of a mountain of dark
Rising with the shadow... a dark world made for me
Black my mind... black my heart...
In my kingdom... I enter to my own world
Open the gate... of a mountain of dark
Rising with the shadow... a dark world made for me
Forth after dark... a time I do know
In my kingdom... I enter to my own world
Open the gate... of a mountain of dark
Rising with the shadow... a dark world made for me
In my kingdom cold...
At the mountains of madness
Unending grimness
These mountains which I heart
In my kingdom cold...
At the mountains of madness
Unending grimness this kingdom it is mine...
In my kingdom... I enter to my own world
Open the gate... of a mountain of dark
Rising with the shadow... a dark world made for me
Black my mind... black my heart...
In my kingdom... I enter to my own world
Open the gate... of a mountain of dark
Rising with the shadow... a dark world made for me
Forth after dark... a time I do know
In my kingdom... I enter to my own world
Open the gate... of a mountain of dark
Rising with the shadow... a dark world made for me
In my kingdom cold...
At the mountains of madness
Unending grimness
These mountains which I heart
In my kingdom cold...
At the mountains of madness
Unending grimness this kingdom it is mine...
Lyrics submitted by sean
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