Story Behind The Song

Joe the lead singer/ guitarist wrote this song about his relationship with his girlfriend relating to when he took some 2CB and tripped balls in California. That experience really led to open his eyes to the comparison between the drugs and his girlfriend. No matter how hard he wanted to believe that what he saw was real, it wasn't really there at all.

Song Description

When what you think you see is not really there. Idea could apply to a person's behaviors or attitudes that you think you see good in someone, but it's not really there. Or this could be taken much more literally as in you took some hallucinogens and now you see stuff that actually isn't really there at all.

Lyrics

Slow time
Well it's dry
So I'm
Just fine, but

This heat is too much for me
Burst at my seams I cannot breathe
Or so it seems I've failed to see
Sometimes when my mind is free
Into steam when our eyes gleam
The shapes cut through instantly

A mirage when what I think I see is
Never really there
The visions I continue to see
A mirage that's inside of me now silently waiting

A metaphor oh we will see
Wandering aimlessly is serene
Or so it seems this glistening
Will breathe its light right through me

Sabotage is off the top
It's so damn hot it just hits the spot
So stop now here's the low down
You've got to slow down now
I need some time to think
Wait don't blink here on the brink
Of the storm
Let this sand run through my hands
And time it stands so still it's almost blank

A mirage when what I think I see is
Never ever really there oh no

Well I guess I'm just fine