According to vocalist Dan Weyandt the song is about:
The visual of a single moment within a specific situation. Watching someone you love suffer emotionally. A miscarriage. It’s about death and things that can’t be created or destroyed.
Woe to the vessel
For it couldn't compose
The igniting spark
Oh, it shuddered
And collapsed
Beneath the weight of it all
Slowly it is reassembled
As a wound not seen but felt
No sense of presence
Oh, again it shudders
Oh, again it collapsed
The vessel
It wept
And crept behind the door
Echoes dripping down the walls
Crawling underneath the floor
Procession to a grave
Unknown is the one we mourn
An entity lost on its way
To this our physical plane
It was a shadow
Cast from a flame
Indestructible energy that still remains
The Weeping Vessel was written by Jeff Gretz & Scott Mellinger & Daniel Weyandt.
The Weeping Vessel was produced by Dave Hidek.
Zao released The Weeping Vessel on Fri Dec 09 2016.