I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
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I probably got the lyrics wrong here, but I don't care - it's an instrumental track technically I guess. Beautiful /Beautiful/ track. Probably one of my favourite ambient tracks I've got, which is surprising considering it's a Fear Factory song. It looks so out of place in my ambient playlist.
Anyway. Whenever I close my eyes and listen to this song, I always imagine a huge docking area in space. Each sound representing different ships coming and going, and the thuds and clunks and stuff being industrial type work going on... I just wish it was longer than 7 minutes.
maybe u should go to thewatchers.org and ull see the lyrics and its not even a fear factory song its by The ascension of the watchers which is Burtons side project
dude it was on the Archetype album, its a FF song alright
yeah its obviously on the album despite who made it >_>
I think the "lyrics" are "On their feet, mothers. Defeat, fathers. Please, forsaken
Come back, violence in our name Come back, violence in our name"
Or something to that effect. If you listen to Human Shields, the song before it on Archetype, they share several common parts musically, so it'd make sense that they would lyrically too.
Just to put this in because it was a bit annoying while I was browsing around here, solitude is about the closest as far as I can recon, basically its a bunch of clips from Human Shields into an instrumental, you if you actually listen to it, you can catch the bits from "on their feet Mothers bare the burdens of our defeats Fathers are on their knees praying for mercy " in the beginning, followed by "So much violence in our name"
It clips out a bit on the first parts, but, "on their feet, mothers .. burdens ... defeat, fathers(mercy?) ... knees ...(less audible: praying for?) mercy" are pretty easy to recognize.
Dude that posted the original lyrics might be on crack, dunno, anyway, buy some new speakers or a decent set of headphones if you're going to listen to the song, great instrumental imo and a decent way to end the CD aside from the bonus track.
dude that posted the original lyrics wasn't on crack... perhaps very sleepy, instead :P
Updated to reflect Solitude's input