What I wanna say about the lyrics right now, before we get into this, is that I think people need to just kinda decide for themselves what things mean. They’re just words, and they can mean whatever you want them to mean. And at the end of the day, it’s kind of just our lives that we put on a disc. And we’re talking about experiences and talking about things, and maybe blow them out of proportion or not. And lyrically, that’s where all these songs come from. And hopefully, people enjoy them and can take something from it.
— M. Shadows,