This song expresses the chaos we can feel when life pummels us with painful experiences. Dustin Kensrue describes the meaning and imagery of the song in a “Christianity Today” magazine interview this way:
It’s a dark song. Our drummer was showing us some slow shutter speed pictures he had taken. Ev...
[Verse]
The shutter opens but never closes
I am lost, waylaid in light trails
Endless moments overlaid and burned across
A melee of scattered braille
[Pre-Chorus]
This image is a night-terror transforming
Without the hope of morning
My nemesis, I feel it coming for me
And it means to destroy me
[Chorus]
Why does this keep happening?
I try to close my eyes but I can't blink
And the world keeps moving on
Black and white blur into one
[Verse]
Hieroglyphic, indecipherable, opaque
The meaning escapes me
Dry and lidless are my eyes, asleep, awake
Reading the slurred debris
[Pre-Chorus]
This image is a night-terror transforming
Without the hope of morning
My nemesis, I feel it coming for me
And it means to destroy me
[Chorus]
Why does this keep happening?
I try to close my eyes but I can't blink
And the world keeps moving on
Black and white blur into
Why does this keep happening?
I try to close my eyes but I can't blink
And the world keeps moving on
Black and white blur into one
Blur was written by Dustin Kensrue & Teppei Teranishi & Eddie Breckenridge & Riley Breckenridge.
Blur was produced by Dave Schiffman.