“‘In Your Wake’ once again tackles the idea of accountability. This is the summation of the record for me musically and lyrically. Being sensitive is painful. There is a guilt that those who feel carry, but it requires acknowledgement of our actions. “It only hurts when your heart beats.” It is easy...
[Verse 1]
We all have an inherent body-count accountability
Hanging from the gallows in your mind side by side with sympathy
Way back, deep in your subconscious, hibernating in guilt
Latent realizations of all that we have killed
[Chorus]
And we say 'good riddance to their kind'
Committed to the crime
The bees are unimpressed
It's all lost in your wake
[Refrain]
In your wake
In your wake
In your wake
[Verse 2]
We are all bartering abuse, budding sociopaths
Ideological child abuse, our indoctrinated wrath
We need to feel for others, we have to care to survive
So afraid to feel any pain, disconnected from my hive
[Chorus]
We say 'good riddance to their kind'
Committed to the crime
The bees are not impressed
It's all lost in your wake
[Refrain]
In your wake
In your wake
In your wake
[Bridge]
And it only hurts when your heart beats
Or you're hanging on to loss, but it's far too strong
Everyone that's gone
At last, it's all repressed inside your head
Inside your head, inside your head
Inside your head, inside your head
Inside your head, inside your head
Inside your head, inside your head
Inside your head, inside your head
[Outro]
You're next to hang
The next to hang
In Your Wake was written by Joey Cape.
In Your Wake was produced by Thom Flowers & Angus Cooke & Bill Stevenson & Joey Cape.
Lagwagon released In Your Wake on Mon Oct 27 2014.