With this song placed at the beginning of the single release, and lyrical similarity to caravan, with this one setting up an ideology and caravan a bit of a narrative, along with the sleeve calling the two songs the "first two parts of clockwork angels", a song that is, according to wikipedia, going to be an epic multi-part, piece, I wouldn't be surprised with this being the first part of a narrative.
With this song placed at the beginning of the single release, and lyrical similarity to caravan, with this one setting up an ideology and caravan a bit of a narrative, along with the sleeve calling the two songs the "first two parts of clockwork angels", a song that is, according to wikipedia, going to be an epic multi-part, piece, I wouldn't be surprised with this being the first part of a narrative.