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.
Pull me 'round
And tell me that you'll never let me drown
Touch me slow
Like your fingertips might never let me go
But you know
That I`m caught between the magic that you gave to me
And the fear that you might leave
Because it
Scares me
Stop this war
I wish that we could leave things at the door
These feelings don`t wash away
I wish there was more to me
More to say
More to say
But you know
That I'm caught between the magic that you gave to me
And the fear that you might leave
Because it scares me
That you could break my heart again so easily
Don`t let us fall apart
Because it scares me
That you could break my heart again so easily
Don`t let us fall apart
Run me through
Then pick me up and tell me what to do
Cut me
Then run away
I wish that there was more to this
Flesh to kiss
Flesh to kiss
And tell me that you'll never let me drown
Touch me slow
Like your fingertips might never let me go
But you know
That I`m caught between the magic that you gave to me
And the fear that you might leave
Because it
Scares me
Stop this war
I wish that we could leave things at the door
These feelings don`t wash away
I wish there was more to me
More to say
More to say
But you know
That I'm caught between the magic that you gave to me
And the fear that you might leave
Because it scares me
That you could break my heart again so easily
Don`t let us fall apart
Because it scares me
That you could break my heart again so easily
Don`t let us fall apart
Run me through
Then pick me up and tell me what to do
Cut me
Then run away
I wish that there was more to this
Flesh to kiss
Flesh to kiss
Lyrics submitted by liquidmercurial
It Scares Me Lyrics as written by Neil Taylor Mark Hockings
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I would love to know what bitch it was that inspired all these songs by Mesh. In a strange way...THANK YOU for being the horrible inspiration for songs like these that move me. But also, FUCK YOU. You obviously fucked with someone's head an awful lot to get all these songs out of them... The pain, the torment, the sadness...fuck you.
LMAO! WORD liquidmercurial WORD... Good point.
Anyone ever hear the term emotional vampire? It seems to me mark has had an experience with a ravenous emotional vampire, just as I've had. I can realte to mark's lyrics in so may ways. I fucking love Mesh.