This song is about life, death & the struggle to survive within the throes of it all. When you are at the end, your perspective nonetheless changes, the portal to the other side is within view. Mastodon has explained the entire album this song is on is dedicated to their friend and manager Nick John (who died in 2018 from pancreatic cancer). Drummer & vocalist Brann Dailor has also said of the album “We live in this culture that is so against people feeling sad, but it’s natural if you lost something that was important to you.”
This song is about life, death & the struggle to survive within the throes of it all. When you are at the end, your perspective nonetheless changes, the portal to the other side is within view. Mastodon has explained the entire album this song is on is dedicated to their friend and manager Nick John (who died in 2018 from pancreatic cancer). Drummer & vocalist Brann Dailor has also said of the album “We live in this culture that is so against people feeling sad, but it’s natural if you lost something that was important to you.”