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.
How fast we burn
How fast we cry
The more we learn
The more we die
The more we learn
The more we cry
How fast we burn
How fast we die
I hear the planet crying now
I hear the planet crying now
I hear the planet crying now
I hear the planet crying now
I hear the planet crying now
I hear the planet crying now
How fast we cry
The more we learn
The more we die
The more we learn
The more we cry
How fast we burn
How fast we die
I hear the planet crying now
I hear the planet crying now
I hear the planet crying now
I hear the planet crying now
I hear the planet crying now
I hear the planet crying now
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Teen Angst Lyrics as written by Yann Gonzalez Anthony Gonzalez
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ThatGuyEd, you have just made me wanting to buy a car.. :)
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But that´s not what it´s about. The
immatureor betterinnocentfeeling, of childhood and teendom, is what the song is about, at least that´s what I make of it.this is the most amazing song in the universe!!! Don't understand why I'm the first one to comment!!!
i hear:
the more we learn the more we cry how fast we birth how fast we die we die, we die
in the second verse. and, the moaning sounds like "we..die.." never could make out that last part "i hear ze planet crying", thanks
First listen = first ever fall off the chair.
I wish every time someone was just trapped in this ......surreal moment.
That this song would immediately start playing no matter where they were at.
And they could fall in love with it like everyone on the planet -should- be doing.
This song has become the theme song for my friend's blog.
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"I am so glad we're crying," the lyrics I hear in the end, is the appreciation someone has for having a soul.
The video for this song was beautiful, too. In the beggining, you can see the same exact seen of her getting into the boy's car as in Don't Save Us from the Flames.
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