The Story Behind the Song
Written from inside the final couple of minutes after a self-inflicted gunshot -- the disorientation, the fading awareness, the ambiguity of what comes next. It's an unflinching attempt to give shape to a moment almost no one survives to describe, told from the inside rather than looking in from outside.
Lyrics
Flash of light Whiff of smoke Heaven above Or Hell down below Fading away Fading away Colors fog my brain One thought, never the same The haze takes me Harder to see Fading away Fading away Fading away And I fade away Killed this pain Ended this masquerade And I fade away And I fade away Fade away