Sanctuary

**SANCTUARY** is the third single and fourth track on Neoni's extended play, *"All My Favorite Monsters"* It was released on August 12, 2022.

Listen to **SANCTUARY**

## Theme

Sanctuary is about the passage of time. When you're just looking for comfort, such as a comfort TV show, and a lot of times as people, we get stressed out in life, we get overwhelmed, and we look for comfort.

"**SANCTUARY,** I think, is about this fear of the passage of time. At least, that's how I [Caitlin] interpreted it. And you're just looking for comfort. I don't know, like, I have a comfort TV show, I don't know if you guys have comfort TV shows, like a comfort song, so I feel like a lot of times as people, we get really stressed out in life, we get overwhelmed, and we look for comfort and that's what this song is pretty much about in a nutshell.

We write a lot of times based off the song name first, and then we'll come up with whatever words, let's say like "loser" and then we'll come up with a story of what that means to us and then work on the song. 'Cause without that sometimes, I just get lost. I'm like 'there's too many words in this world'. So that's how we generally, that's our general writing process, if you could say so. We had the word "Sanctuary" as a song we wanted to write for like two years, like a title, but we were like "We don't know what it means". We never knew what it meant, but I like the way it sounds.

And on my [Sidney] twentieth birthday, so almost a year ago, we were in the studio with David Spencer, who's the man, the myth, the legend (bomb). My teenage years had ended and it was a great day. We were having a great time, but we wrote a really depressing song about time and feeling overwhelmed, and just, you know, by life itself. And then we wrote a song from that point of view, but it was on my birthday".

## Background

* The song was officially announced on August 8, 2022
* A short acoustic version of the song was posted on August 15, 2022
* A vocal only version was posted on August 22, 2022.
* When promoting the song on TikTok where they showed a show that fit the theme of their songs, **SANCTUARY** was linked to "Warrior Nun".

## Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Hell

What if heaven can't help me now?

Better run and find some hallowed ground

I'm in over my head, I'm in over my head

And when I take a breath, I drown

As my fountain of youth dries out

Feel a thousand years older now

Panic overfed

Sleepless nights under my bed, yeah

[Pre-Chorus]

Could you give me something for the pain?

I'm feeling more than I can contain

[Chorus]

Sanctuary

Can't find no sanctuary

Before my bones are buried

I need a little light

Just to get me through the night, oh-oh

Sanctuary

Can't find no sanctuary

The dark is getting heavy

I need a little light

Just to get me through the night, oh-oh

[Verse 2]

Where do I start?

It's like I'm fighting sharks

Deep in the depths, under duress

I need a rest

Or maybe just a second just to catch my breath

Something here is contagious

I fear I'm losing my aim and

If I do, I won't make it

This monster was once on a leash

But now I think it's gotten free

Can someone call a referee?

Knew this would come back to bite me

Please stop

I'd rather live in the make believe

Can somebody pray for me?

[Chorus]

Sanctuary

Can't find no sanctuary

Before my bones are buried

I need a little light

Just to get me through the night, oh-oh

Sanctuary

Can't find no sanctuary

The dark is getting heavy

I need a little light

Just to get me through the night, oh-oh

[Post-Chorus]

Sanctuary, mm-mhm, mm-mhm

Sanctuary, mm-mhm, mm-mhm

[Bridge]

Hell

What if heaven can't help me now?

Better run and find some hallowed ground

I'm in over my head, I'm in over my head

And when I take a breath, I drown

As my fountain of youth dries out

Feel a thousand years older now

Panic overfed

Sleepless nights under my bed, yeah

[Chorus]

Sanctuary

Can't find no sanctuary

Before my bones are buried

I need a little light

Just to get me through the night, oh-oh

Sanctuary

Can't find no sanctuary

The dark is getting heavy

I need a little light

Just to get me through the night, oh-oh

[Post-Chorus]

Sanctuary, mm-mhm, mm-mhm

Sanctuary, mm-mhm, mm-mhm

## Trivia

* This song was written on Sidney's 20th Birthday

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 https://youtu.be/7e9DMOwUXTw
2. ↑ https://www.tiktok.com/@weareneoni/video/7129538807904423210?is\_copy\_url=1&is\_from\_webapp=v1
3. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/reel/ChSSxodDLaI/?utm\_source=ig\_web\_copy\_link
4. ↑ https://www.tiktok.com/@weareneoni/video/7132133359920106794?is\_from\_webapp=1&sender\_device=pc&web\_id=7157031650173421061
5. ↑ https://www.tiktok.com/@weareneoni/video/7134734654585851182?is\_from\_webapp=1&sender\_device=pc&web\_id=7157031650173421061
6. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/reel/ChkXmB4j9oA/?utm\_source=ig\_web\_copy\_link
7. ↑ https://www.tiktok.com/@weareneoni/video/7264997439910710570?is\_from\_webapp=1&sender\_device=pc&web\_id=7262824950779643424