LYRICS BELOW THE LINKS! PRE-ORDER FROSTPUNK 2 HERE! re.11bits.com/u4r AND LEARN ABOUT THE FROSTPUNK 2 RADEON RX7700 XT GPU HERE! UK: tinyurl.com/458ksjj4 USA: tinyurl.com/y8t4c6h6 CANADA: tinyurl.com/8w9z7rvr GET YOUR 'THE ARK & THE TINDERBOX' poster here! stupendiumstore.com/collection/the-ark-the-tinderbox LYRICS: INTRO: Heave lads. Ho lads. Forget the comfort of home - you’re a nomad We’ve lost so much since we first started Are our hearts cold - or are we cold hearted? So pray to your lord or your foreman That the sun might rise in the morning They told us hell was warm But our empire fell for shelter from the - VERSE 1: Storm’s coming. Storm came. Storm will come again. Tempest upon tempest till what’s left to let the tundra claim? Useless to dispute should you be hoping for someone to blame Hubris from the day those walls arose - by any other name We burned the very best of us to cast us into flame And when the skies denied us we still marched on all the same Through night and day we’d fight to stay alight against the ice’s reign And blindly claim the price we’d pay was worth what we became We sacrificed and sacrificed and what have we to show? A baren land of arid ice where not a seed will grow When Mother Nature came for us, took Fahrenheit below We sanctioned plights of matricide and blackened skies with smoke We grafted our salvation - Twisted iron into spires Through disaster and starvation - bled her veins to light the fires Each building block a tinderbox - how fitting it transpire The ending of an empire be reduced to just the pyre PRE CHORUS: Autumn leaves - on the ground Auburn, green, golden brown Lost to freeze - stories now Just as we - fallen down CHORUS 1: Stoke the fires, give your last, keep the flame of all we’ve known For when heaven left us helpless, we built shelter of our own But the heart and hearth are darkened where an endless storm has blown Cling to every dying ember and remember warmth of home May we all rise together - lest we all fall apart May our city stand - our promised land - our refuge from the dark May we survive the weather - though the forecast be stark So heavy hang the many hands we pledge to steer the ark Through the storm VERSE 2: United in conviction - forge a path at any cost A future for our children built no matter what was lost Yet perfidious of vision left that mission to attrition Fetid grip of man’s ambition rearisen from the frost Come my sisters, come my brothers! Some respect amongst your kin! Why, for all this air and bluster, we’re no better than the wind! For the ice beneath this tundra is getting all too thin And lives outside of this rotunda hang on what’s declared within! To each the spoils of grit and toil - the worthiest shall rise! But each on earth has equal worth when seen through heaven’s eyes! Time honoured ways are what shall take us all to warmer skies The path we took is past - through new ideas salvation lies! The right of man’s to fight the land - rebuild the world that fell! The world we knew was born anew - so must we be as well! His guiding hand - divine of plan - seeds hope in every knell What seeds will grow in bed of hope? We must progress ourselves! A future born in fruitless scorn - such human flaw would leave Disputes so worn as uniform, should feuds so thaw the freeze When schools of thought make rules of law make tools of war decreed What hubris wrought when boon it bought’s a rubric for debris? PRE CHORUS: Autumn leaves - on the ground Auburn, green, golden brown Lost to freeze - stories now Just as we - fallen down CHORUS 2: Stoke the fires, give your last, keep the flame of all we’ve known For when heaven left us helpless, we built shelter of our own But the heart and hearth are darkened where an endless storm has blown Cling to every dying ember and remember warmth of home May we all rise together - lest we all fall apart May our city thrive - our people strive for futures we might chart May we survive the weather - though the forecast be stark But discord thrives when laws decide which thoughts must guide the ark Through the storm BRIDGE: Each citizen’s resilience was given with the lie That each shiver would deliver us deliverance in time But dissonance and dissidence have driven us to schism, Just like Sisyphus, the myth of us v never ending clime No fillibuster preserves us from temperature's decline No division cut so deep as those down lines where laws are signed So the Militant, the Penitent, entrenched against their fellow men Forgetting that the elements care not how you align VERSE 3: Without the heart the blood will start to freeze at but a chill The ichor piped to give us light will cease at colder still But if we were to summary our great and grand discoveries The nub would be we found the freezing point of human will There's not the time for tears when all that's dear's against the wall They streak the face and freeze in place 'fore they've the grace to fall If each a flake unique in shape is beauty framed in squall What leap of faith to dream our place was not beneath them all? For what is man but animal in all but face and name? No fang but sharp of mandible when chanced to stake a claim We rage and fight against the night but sun still fades the same So each convinced of rite and right we buck from fate in vain Feed the strong that they may prosper - feed the weak may they revive Loose the gates to save the lost or keep the heat for those inside Crush dissenters, hush and censor or let free expression thrive Just to let it flourish - end up one more creed to wrench the knife LET IT BURN, I SAY Rend it all to ash and dust For as fools we are as fuel It is our nature to combust Man - so blessed engine Grinds and churns and screams and lusts Its lustre faded now since autumn eve That God did leave to rust OUTRO: Autumn leaves - on the ground Auburn, green, golden brown Lost to freeze - stories now Just as we - fallen down Has the branch cause to grieve As leaves dance on the breeze? Who so cast, mourn the tree When autumn leaves OUTRO (SPOKEN POETRY): "So careful of the type?" but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries, "A thousand types are gone: I care for nothing, all shall go." "Thou makest thine appeal to me: I bring to life, I bring to death: The spirit does but mean the breath: I know no more." And he, shall he, Man, her last work, who seem'd so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law - Tho' Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shriek'd against his creed O life as futile, then, as frail! O for thy voice to soothe and bless! What hope of answer, or redress? Behind the veil, behind the veil.
Remember our old captain? The one that made us sing "So burn us in the furnace, Let our souls ignite the flames, Use our bones to stoke the embers, Use our blood to oil the chains!"? Ahh, what a time it was!
I'd argue the elaboration was through the entire song. Dude represents the player character who leads the people in the frozen tundra aftermath of society. He leads his people to come together to build a city. That city forms a parliament to make decisions together as a collective and to survive. Internal conflict between the various factions in the city drives the city to collapse while they fight against the perpetual frozen storms. The leader of the city must have been driven off during that period to find hope somewhere else. Failed in his mission he returns home to reminisce about where it all went wrong, create some kindling out of his former belongings and die a sad death.
@@37Not73...I mean I'm just explaining what is plainly visible in the video. The only part I'm guessing on is the leader leaving to find hope somewhere else. But since the video starts with said leader heading back to their home, it's apparent he left at some point after the city fell. How do we know the city fell, we literally see the members of parliament fighting each other as Stupedium sings about their empire falling into the pyre and the frozen tundra claiming it In Frostpunk, you play the leader who's making decisions on how to build a city and survive. Stupe's character is clearly the stand-in for that leader
I love that the three frost punk songs create a full story 1) The Hope of rebuilding 2) The bickering between the fractions 3) the death of new London Well done stupes
I disagree with the 2nd point- a purpose for new london was more about which path to take to survive the storm. You can still see that bickering in this song though as you get several segments involving that
@@dazedandconfused5711 yes you can see it in all the songs but the second song really accentuates, the two factions of faith versus order and the differences that ended up tearing new London apart
@@orangeandawesome4505 not really- faith and order are two factions in fp2. and by the end of the song, the other faction (depends on the channel) has been entirely abolished. the captain was able to keep the factions you see in frostpunk 2 at bay- the steward cannot.
When the Steward set alight the toy house and the other toy, it reminded me of: "Is childhood so sacred? Or just resources wasted?" This was a house within New London, so those toys were manufactured by their people. Yet in the end, all it became was fuel for a dying man's fire.
@noahhornbeak8831 that was him pre-exile. That's why he drops the necklace and it immediately cuts to him in almost the same outfit (with more kempt facial hair) trying to lead the parliament.
I personally err towards it isn't strictly his home, given that there's a newspaper talking about how the Steward was exiled on the floor. It may be the same block he lived in, or the next Steward lived there. [Cause obviously they'd still elect a new Steward]
It looks like this is his home - he was a leader that got banished. If that is so, this would be his grandchildrens' toys. That's why he hesitates to open the door - his family was still here when he was forced to leave, but since then, everyone has died. There was a good chance there would be frozen bodies inside.
I love the twist, that the old man was the steward, who dammed the city to fall. As he dies, he reads the last poem on earth about human nature and has a reflection. A reflection of human nature to follow ideals and then distort them or to become blinded by them, becoming hateful to everyone that doesn't follow. Our nature to combust to violence doomed us and now we have fallen to the same cycle that eventually destroyed us. So was the last thoughts of the poem and steward.
God I cannot get over how good that was, how absolutely phenomenal of a song - starting out with the lamentations of a last survivor, one who had once stood at the head of a city with so many lives in his hands, now alone and wandering in the snow, speaking of their failure - contrasted with the very failures that he so speaks of, the infighting and conflict, the folly of humanity as a whole, dragging themselves all down into the cold and the dark, ending with that bitter understanding, that burning acceptance that they were always destined to fail, to burn, and rounding it all off with a haunting poem about the futility of it all - the frailty of life, and the cruelty of mother nature, and her indifference to mankind and their pleas. Truly, absolutely incredible - storytelling, lyricism and acting all to the beat.
@@TheStupendium Because you managed to convey it all so fantastically well! Everything from the framing of him alone in the snow, to the broken home as a reflection of the city, hollow and divided, to the burning of books and toys for another little bit of warmth as a representative that all the knowledge of the past and all their hopes for the future meant nothing against the cruel indifference of the cold. Genuinely, it's incredible how well you managed to combine both the song itself, the set work, and the actual events of the song together to tell the story so well!
@@RockingSpaceDragon It's such a potent work, especially right now, when we're all sort of grappling with the fear of climate change looming just ahead of us in real life...Frostpunk taps into that really well, and Stupendium really knocked it out of the park distilling that into a beautiful work of art and storytelling that manages to make a song worth revisiting for its own sake at the same time.
Our dear Steward managed to pull together and save the city, but as it grew, the divisions started to form. Each taking a side thinking they were right in their direction, so a parliament was formed. The hope to bring the factions to work together and survive, but it was all for naught. The factions grew and began to argue, arguing turned to bitterness, and bitterness to hate. Our Steward so fed up with the divisions, unable to bring people back together and keep them alive snapped, their own exile the reward for all their hard work. They now return later, finding their old home abandoned and taken by the snow, to a city that has failed because they could not pull together. The advancements they had done taken under the heartless snow and used as simple kindling. The hopelessness sinks in and our Steward laments at all that has happened, speaking to the hopelessness and futility in the endeavor of even trying and that failure was inevitable. Beautiful! Simply beautiful!
DUDE YOU HAD CARL ON YOUR SONG??? OMG OMG OMG OMG-- CARL RECOGNITION! LETS GOOOOOOOO-- This production is absolutely insane, it's like you keep leveling up EVERY TIME. Love love love love this
"Each citizen’s resilience was given with the lie, that each shiver would deliver us deliverance in time" is currently making me crying as i'm writing. We already knew that the deliverance was a lie, but hearing it from an old man who had all his hopes crushed is trully painful
Is it a lie? Because, the way I see it, we survived to see the city grow. We didn't die in the storm, and we sure as heck didn't die after. If anything, we achieved deliverence and now we (Frostpunk 2 citizens) must learn to fully value the sacrifices made.
@@TheNapster153 well, imo achieving the deliverance would be having the end of the storm, the moment when you won't ask yourself "will i die today ?", like being truly delivered
@@TheNapster153these songs are from a failed captain or steward, i think, not a successful one. Whats more, They survived...for now...but a lot of the resource veins are noticeably finite once you switch from the small city in frostpunk 1 to the much larger scale play in 2. And the big Storm that shuts down everything in one is going to become a recurring phenomenon for a long while to come... (There's still ways to secure seemingly unlimited supplies, mind you. But you have to wonder how long even those will last, really. Long enough for the planet to warm back up again and push the concerns of humanity's extinction into next milleniums problem? Perhaps...or pergaps not. )
The really messed up part: that's his old house, since it's got his portrait and the old Steward necklace in it, plus his books. That implies that's his kid's toys that he burns to live a second longer. What happened to those kids?
And, as tragic as it is, probably actually had the peace of death brought sooner onto them as a result instead of having to take their final breaths undoubtedly freezing and alone. Like... I genuinely get the sense he probably actually outlived them when New London fell. And if that is the case... I can't blame him for coming home to breath his last in a frozen home full of frosted over memories.
The excerpt where the captain's gaze is shown in close-up, as if looking straight into the viewer's soul, is simply stunning in the context of this situation. Like a silent questioning reproach: "We were able to survive the fall of civilization, we were able to find and reach a place that became a shelter from the storm,we were able, despite all the catastrophes and losses, to found a city and not let it collapse under the threat of a merciless storm. We were able to leave you not just a generator, but a future where you would not have to repeat our sacrifices. And you lost all this. And because of what? Simply because you could not agree and come to a consensus? Sitting in the comfort of Parliament, far from the cold and blizzard, you could not find an agreement and this was the end of everything?!"
I've never played Frostpunk (maybe I should), but I always liked Shelter from the Storm. I've always thought of it as a beautiful ode to people uniting to make sacrifices for future generations, "an empire is strongest when people toil to grow trees whose shade they will never sit in". Also a compelling narrative of a leader's introspection as he comes to grips with the enormity of his responsibility to be a leader in dark times. I feel as though it presents a feeling similar to how I think Lincoln must have felt during The Civil War, for instance. This song does a good job at being a gut-wrenching subversion of that. It seems to present the city as an almost self-perpetuating cycle of meaningless sacrifice and ultimately the city destroys itself as it seeks a purpose to all of this, while the leader has to cope with his failure to keep the city unified.
100% recommend frostpunk if you like survival like games and/or city builders, i recommend playing out each game out till you fail or suceed and then trying the dlc
i dislike this song because it gives the worldview of the collaspe being inevitable. while no empire lasts forever the idea that humanity will always turn on itself like a pack of dogs discredits literally thousands of years of people building architecture, infrastructure, belief and religious systems throughout history to get us here just to say "well who cares anyways why should i fight for society"
@@sovietunion7643 thats what does happen in the first game and from what i presume, the second one aswell, thats the theme of the entire world space of frostpunk, the collapse of civilsation and the coming of the second ice age
I, for one, am quite glad that Stupendium undermined the bleak threnody with a cheerful and chipper ad immediately at its conclusion. This is simply because Stupendium does such an incredible job of crafting searing, biting satire in their works, I find myself wanting to extend a virtual hand and concernedly ask, "Is everything all right?"
I'm not going to parrot everyone else by saying how good and haunting this song is (but by Jove, I did cry while listening, pre-chorus is just so mournful and defeated, and the break in the voice at the end is heart-wrenching); what is really interesting is that in spite of the gloomy overall mood, the chorus keeps the "old" ideas of devotion, sacrifice, of raging against the unfeeling world and clinging to life with every last bit of man's strength, and delivers it with honest determination. Feels like for all that the Steward/Pilgrim does not completely regret that New London tried, for all that castigation of the civilisation delivered in the first verse. Also, three more things. One, I find it a bit ironic that you went that way when Frostpunk 2 actually gives us the chance to rebuild civilisation when in 1 we could at best survive in comfort. Two, I'm 99% certain that some of the orchestral background is sampled from the first game's OST. Three, I'm not sure how much conscious ispiration it was, but the beginning reminds me a bit of the Preacher from Children of Dune - a powerful emperor turned hermit preaching against the empire he built.
I just realized in the final argument/brawl scene at the council each opposing faction is at each other’s throats for their specific views. - Industrialization/innovation vs Environmentalism - Faith vs Order - New ways vs Old ways I just thought it was a cool touch that didn’t have to be there but still was included anyways!
I did Musical theater for eons outa high school. Never sang but built sets, designed/made costumes, and ran the stage. Your songs take me back and I could not be happier listening and watching them. 😄
God genuine chills at the "LET IT BURN" and the following lines, the expression on your face, the voice of a man who's lost all hope, carried so perfectly in the song, incredible work
Let us not forget the lines that are also delivered perfectly right after "Rend it all to ash and dust For as fools we are as fuel It is our nature to combust" admitting defeated that there was nothing to be done. That it was how humans are that the city was to burn as the last pyre of the world
"Just like Sisyphus / The myth of Us V. Never Ending Clime" God, your wordplay remains my favourite bloody thing, Stupes - that line took me a second and caused a genuine fist-to-mouth gasp.
@@LukeEmia_ Sisyphus is from Greek Mythology. His story is most notable for a part where he angered gods so much that he was punished by having to push rock to the top of the mountain, but he will always drop it and have to start all over again, for eternity. The Us V. Never Ending Clime (V. as in versus) talks about our struggle (in the game) and by comparison to Sisyphus it shows it as a neverending strife we are *not* meant to succeed at
@@kjm4721 And then, there's use of Clime as apposed to climb. We struggle against the climate, but it was here before us and will still be here after it's erased us.
I love the contrast between this and 'Shelter from the Storm', where the last one felt that there was hope just with enough determination and sacrifice, this one has lost any hope of surviving as humanity is truly dead. Brilliant song, great work on it!
For the first, our egos allow us to believe we have the grit to wrestle mother nature under our control. Here, we see that human nature was the greater threat all along.
@@rpgamer987 I disagree. Our ancestors lived and survived the last glacial maximum, clearely we have the means as a species to survive these kind of things. Furthemore we are gregarious, the need to maintain cohesive groups is instinctual. Granted relatively small groups, not whole cities, but still.
@@Etrelleythe last ice age was far from the full chill of what Earth has (and still can) inflict. The Huronian and Cryogenian periods, for example, are far older, and saw oceans freeze over and glaciers all the way down to sea level at the equator. Terrestrial life didn't exist at the time, but the life we currently have absolutely can't survive those conditions. For that matter, neither can nearly all oceanic life. The "upside" is that such conditions probably can't last for as long as the cryogenian period - I seem to recall continental drift and ocean currents of a supercontinent helped break the freeze.
A 7 minute ballad of the self destructive nature of man's differences and views, and how despite as much unity we forward march we eventually find things to bicker against eachother until our undoing? Stupendium, you spoil (and existentially terrify) us!
I am actually dumbfounded by how far you have come. In your last few drops, you have kept the same quality of wordsmithing we all know and love, but have added so many more visual details that resemble movie studio level skill. I just want you and everyone behind the scenes to know that your work is recognized and appreciated. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to analyze every byte of this song for all the hidden bits and bobs.
I would add that they also hugely improved in their wordsmithing. While It was always great, in the last year or so It really trascended from song lyrics to pure unfiltrated poetry
Can I just say how amazing the visual connections are during the first chorus? "Keep the flame of all we've known" -> panning past lantern flame "We built shelter of our own" -> wide shot of the hallway, showing it's a house that was lived in "Heart and Hearth are Darkened where an endless storm has blown" -> shot through the broken window, wind and snow blowing in. "Cling to every dying ember" -> Picking up the old necklace of office, the "ember" of the Steward's previous life. "Remember warmth of home" -> after this it becomes the Steward remembering his past, with the main chorus line (that absolutely slaps, ofc) "May our city stand, our promised land" -> Dropping the necklace to the floor and turning away, showing what happend to that promised land. "Refuge from the dark" -> The lantern goes out, bringing darkness. "So heavy hang the many hands" -> his hand trembling before the doorknob. "Through the Storm" -> the camera pans through the wall.
How is it that despite watching this countless times, it's only thanks to your comment I noticed that his lantern goes out, and thats why he stays in the home.
"Each citizen’s resilience was given with the lie That each shiver would deliver us deliverance in time But dissonance and dissidence have driven us to schism, Just like Sisyphus, the myth of us v never ending clime" What an absolute amazing way to callback to the first song while progressing the story and displaying the characterization changes through time.
"When Mother Nature came for us, took Fahrenheit below, we sanctioned crimes of matricide and blackened skies with smoke." My current Frostpunk play through just saw the temperature rise 60 degrees celsius with how absolutely fire that bar was. Stupes you mad lad, you've done it again!
I love this trilogy of songs. Fighting songs, desperately holding humanity together by any means necessary, but ending in a most tragic fashion: a beautiful poem and an ad read.
HOLY TARTER SAUCE The first song was what got me into y’all in the first place, the remastered is in my daily playlist, and I know that this one will bang as well!
If this world dares to not celebrate your poetry just as viciously as it does the works of Shakespeare, Keats and Austen, I'll fricking come back to haunt the lot of them. Seriously - your words are amazing and I'm saying this as a published writer of poetry.
I genuinely got teary-eyed at "Let it Burn, I say!" Every ounce of pain, regret, guilt, and resentment in your voice hit me like a truck. Another absolute banger! 🧡
@@Emperor-oh7nb That's the freezing point of Ethanol, which is the active ingredient in alcohol. The stronger the spirit, the more ethanol and the less water, so stronger spirits move closer to that -114 degree point. That, by my eye, is whiskey, which, at 40% ethanol, freezes at about -30. Saying the freezing point of alcohol is -114 is technically accurate, but most alcoholic drinks will be solid long before that.
At 5:06 when they all overlap their ideals with the stewards voice, is honestly one of my favourite pieces of a song I’ve ever heard. Your first shelter from the storm inspired me to play frostpunk about 4 years ago and I haven’t stopped playing since! Keep up the great work!
I just want to highlight the start. Not the beautifully sung call-back that is the intro, but the first line of the first verse: "Storm’s coming. Storm came. Storm will come again." That line sets the whole theme of the video, song and story and is delivered perfectly.
Stupes, I applaud thee, for you have done the impossible and created a song to truly surpass your countless other masterpieces. The lyrics, the quotes, the EMOTION, the LEITMOTIF'S!!! You, my dear friend, are a master of the arts and through this song you may just outlive yourself. Thank you, Stupes, for sharing your incredible art with us. We do not deserve you, but we love you.
I'm just- taken a back, you really feel the hopelessness in those words. It's just so well made, the lyrics, the story. You really see the values of each member of the parlament through their lyrics, one believes we may innovate a solution to the cold, another believing we can adapt by just changing our ways, another believing survival through faith. All in vain. Then there's the set design, the costumes, the makeup. They all come together to really inmerse you into this world. And if you've watched the previous Frostpunk songs this just hits harder, a once hopeful city with such fervent fervour now reduced to just its captain. I almost forgot, the vocals in this one, the high pitched singing of old lyrics make it feel like a ghost long gone, the loud symphony of determination changing to just the mournful and frustrated captain just was, goodness. So powerful. Always a delight hearing and seeing a new song from you Stupes, and perrenially impressive every time I am just amazed and in awe with all of the detail
"Stoke the fires, give your last. Keep the flame of all we've known" Perfect. How it shows strive to keep flame of civilisation alight, against all odds, and regardless of the cost.
Your songs frequently have social messages, but this one is, without question, the one whose message spoke most deeply to me. Across the world, people stand in their entrenched beliefs; but when we move from disagreeing with others' beliefs to hating them as people for holding them, we open the door to humanity's worst impulses. The plague of disagreement becoming division is sweeping the world, and it's perhaps the foremost social threat of our time.
I despise the winter but couldn’t wait to hear the ice cold lines you delivered. SFTS gave us one of the most gut wrenching emotional experiences which went way beyond the game, and I had high hopes for this one, too. Still, I didn’t expect to be moved to tears. First hit the chorus and then the burning of the childhood, innocence, past, and then the waterworks truly came. I’m going to need a moment to recover. Wow.
Knowing Stupe's was going to make another frostpunk song has honestly been the highlight of the games buildup for me- The costume, the set, the lyrics... god i just know i am going to be obsessing over this for the next year. Great work as usual mate, keep up the good work, and hope you kept a penny or two of the sponser money!
Oh heck yeah! Shelter From The Storm was the song that introduced me to your work, this one goes even harder and gives me an even colder feeling. Love the numerous callbacks and the addition of Tennyson.
Oh it just hit me. If I understand, this is the Captain, he's returned to his old house, and he's the last survivor of the city. Which means the toys... ...he really has lost everything.
I have no idea why, but this song is the only thing that can calm down my 2 year old when he's throwing a tantrum and whenever the song stops he starts bawling again until I hit repeat. Not certain if that's hilarious or incredibly ominous.
"for what is man but animal/ in all but face and name?/ No fang but sharp of mandible/ when chance to stake a claim." Is pure poetry; this line might as well be a Tennyson quote. And the relentlessness of the build into "LET IT BURN I SAY!" And that whole section, really earned the emotion. That bit makes me cry from sheer panic and distress at the human condition. This is fucking phenomenal.
This song is absolutely my favorite! I absolutely love the chorus melody. The "shiver will deliver us" line is such a powerful line as well as "the freezing point of human's will". Cinematic instrumental plus amazing vocals and harmonies resulted in an song I'll be listening on repeat! Amazing job, Stupes!
I’m screaming. Crying. This is cinema. This makes me want to make a dnd world based off it. The call backs to shelter from the storm and A purpose for new London. The regret, the loss. I love it so much!!!
Have had to listen to this multiple times, it's amazing how much more intricate your songs and videos have become over the years. Takes multiple times to appreciate every different bit of thought put into the lyrics and video. I really love how each different council member's bit reflects their ideology. Also love how the chorus at first is the unifying cry for all to keep the city alive as the last hope, only to become the cry of division as different views begin to pull the city in different directions. Only to eventually ignite in violence and collapse as the chaotic lyrics propose each opposing ideology in more extreme terms, highlighting the escalation of conflict and unwillingness to compromise for the sake of the city's survival. The final reflections are what really hit the hardest, with the Captain's final lamentations regarding human nature, how we fight against the end with anything and everything we can, yet like the inevitable nothing really changed in the end. I could go on but your work speaks for itself, truly a masterwork piece of music and video.
Just wanted to ask on 2:03 the character hesitates to open the door, it is because of some internal conflict or because the doorknob is made out of metal and it is unsafe to touch it in extreme cold?
Little of both! Emotional was intended, he's returning to the home he once lived in, with his now almost certainly dead family. As an actor, my thought process behind the performance was 'this man doesn't know if he'll find the bodies of his family behind this door, he has no idea what happened to them after he was exiled.'
This song has such an amazing production. And the emotion in the last verse made this my favorite song from you, literally brought tears into my eyes. Such an amazing sequel to already amazing song of an amazing game
Excellent work. A worthy sequel to one of your absolute best songs. I love how all the parliament members sing the chorus together, and with such fervour. "United in conviction" like the lyrics say. Sadly that isn't enough. Even if people can agree on the destination, they will still endlessly argue about the exact path. History has countless examples.
@@11bitstudiosmay the city and us thrive throughout the days years and millennia’s to come but we have a job to do still no time to rest we must get to work
Phenomenal as always This carries such a depressing tone, one of painful reflection and a sense of hopelessness and regret. To reference the original song in such ways, makes it all sound like it was not at all worth it, and that in carrying on, we just pushed our city to a later, inevitable fate great job
The spoken word bridge is absolutely mind boggingly stupendous. "Like sisyphus the myth of us v never ending clime" is an incredible use of words and makes exceedingly jealous of of your penship my friend! I only hope that i could write as eloquently as you can
'We must all rise together lest we all fall apart' 'Stoke the fires, give your last, keep the flame of all we’ve known/For when heaven left us helpless, we built shelter of our own' So many lines of this go hard af, this is such a wonderful response to the song for the original game. I loved all the callbacks.
Love it, and how curious it mirrrors the official trailer just also released, of the captain, now old and powerless, watching his city crack and shake, in his dying moments.
Might just be me imagining Easter Eggs out of nothing, but the combo of the words "fallen down" with the visuals of that particular silhouette style at 3:21 feels way too deliberate to not be a Fallen London reference.
I love too see how much youve grown from when we happy few came out to now your spark hasnt gone out and your fire to make amazing songs shall never end
What a song! Just, wow. The first Frostpunk song had a tone of "sacrifice, for the city must survive", the remake changed to "give your hearts, the city WILL survive", but this is different. It sounds like the city grew too large, too diverse in the citizens ideals. The storm did not destroy New London, the citizens did. Led by misguidance in a house divided, the city did fall, and this, its dieing words. I absolutly love it. (Hopefuly its not foreshadowing to my city once I get the game)
"But if we were to summary" "our great and grand discoveries" "The nub would be" "We found the freezing point of human will" faaaaaaaaawk that hits so hard...
This song was just the cause of the most crazy coincidence. I was visiting my parents, and heading to the stores while singing this under my breath. Some random guy passes nearby, and starts singing too, loud enough for me to hear. I don't know the guy, and I didn't stop him, but apparently someone in my hometown also has good taste in music!
Saw the premiere. I needed to get my thoughts in order but seriously... this was *epic* and while I know that word gets thrown around a lot, I truly mean it. This is a professional work in all meanings of the word. Amazing, Stupendium.
Love as how the captain says "let it burn i say" u also see right before it the steward does the same. The steward going crazy from the squabbling and he himself going crazy aswel from seeing the squabbling.
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LYRICS:
INTRO:
Heave lads. Ho lads.
Forget the comfort of home - you’re a nomad
We’ve lost so much since we first started
Are our hearts cold - or are we cold hearted?
So pray to your lord or your foreman
That the sun might rise in the morning
They told us hell was warm
But our empire fell for shelter from the -
VERSE 1:
Storm’s coming. Storm came. Storm will come again.
Tempest upon tempest till what’s left to let the tundra claim?
Useless to dispute should you be hoping for someone to blame
Hubris from the day those walls arose - by any other name
We burned the very best of us to cast us into flame
And when the skies denied us we still marched on all the same
Through night and day we’d fight to stay alight against the ice’s reign
And blindly claim the price we’d pay was worth what we became
We sacrificed and sacrificed and what have we to show?
A baren land of arid ice where not a seed will grow
When Mother Nature came for us, took Fahrenheit below
We sanctioned plights of matricide and blackened skies with smoke
We grafted our salvation - Twisted iron into spires
Through disaster and starvation - bled her veins to light the fires
Each building block a tinderbox - how fitting it transpire
The ending of an empire be reduced to just the pyre
PRE CHORUS:
Autumn leaves - on the ground
Auburn, green, golden brown
Lost to freeze - stories now
Just as we - fallen down
CHORUS 1:
Stoke the fires, give your last, keep the flame of all we’ve known
For when heaven left us helpless, we built shelter of our own
But the heart and hearth are darkened where an endless storm has blown
Cling to every dying ember and remember warmth of home
May we all rise together - lest we all fall apart
May our city stand - our promised land - our refuge from the dark
May we survive the weather - though the forecast be stark
So heavy hang the many hands we pledge to steer the ark
Through the storm
VERSE 2:
United in conviction - forge a path at any cost
A future for our children built no matter what was lost
Yet perfidious of vision left that mission to attrition
Fetid grip of man’s ambition rearisen from the frost
Come my sisters, come my brothers! Some respect amongst your kin!
Why, for all this air and bluster, we’re no better than the wind!
For the ice beneath this tundra is getting all too thin
And lives outside of this rotunda hang on what’s declared within!
To each the spoils of grit and toil - the worthiest shall rise!
But each on earth has equal worth when seen through heaven’s eyes!
Time honoured ways are what shall take us all to warmer skies
The path we took is past - through new ideas salvation lies!
The right of man’s to fight the land - rebuild the world that fell!
The world we knew was born anew - so must we be as well!
His guiding hand - divine of plan - seeds hope in every knell
What seeds will grow in bed of hope? We must progress ourselves!
A future born in fruitless scorn - such human flaw would leave
Disputes so worn as uniform, should feuds so thaw the freeze
When schools of thought make rules of law make tools of war decreed
What hubris wrought when boon it bought’s a rubric for debris?
PRE CHORUS:
Autumn leaves - on the ground
Auburn, green, golden brown
Lost to freeze - stories now
Just as we - fallen down
CHORUS 2:
Stoke the fires, give your last, keep the flame of all we’ve known
For when heaven left us helpless, we built shelter of our own
But the heart and hearth are darkened where an endless storm has blown
Cling to every dying ember and remember warmth of home
May we all rise together - lest we all fall apart
May our city thrive - our people strive for futures we might chart
May we survive the weather - though the forecast be stark
But discord thrives when laws decide which thoughts must guide the ark
Through the storm
BRIDGE:
Each citizen’s resilience was given with the lie
That each shiver would deliver us deliverance in time
But dissonance and dissidence have driven us to schism,
Just like Sisyphus, the myth of us v never ending clime
No fillibuster preserves us from temperature's decline
No division cut so deep as those down lines where laws are signed
So the Militant, the Penitent, entrenched against their fellow men
Forgetting that the elements care not how you align
VERSE 3:
Without the heart the blood will start to freeze at but a chill
The ichor piped to give us light will cease at colder still
But if we were to summary our great and grand discoveries
The nub would be we found the freezing point of human will
There's not the time for tears when all that's dear's against the wall
They streak the face and freeze in place 'fore they've the grace to fall
If each a flake unique in shape is beauty framed in squall
What leap of faith to dream our place was not beneath them all?
For what is man but animal in all but face and name?
No fang but sharp of mandible when chanced to stake a claim
We rage and fight against the night but sun still fades the same
So each convinced of rite and right we buck from fate in vain
Feed the strong that they may prosper - feed the weak may they revive
Loose the gates to save the lost or keep the heat for those inside
Crush dissenters, hush and censor or let free expression thrive
Just to let it flourish - end up one more creed to wrench the knife
LET IT BURN, I SAY
Rend it all to ash and dust
For as fools we are as fuel
It is our nature to combust
Man - so blessed engine
Grinds and churns and screams and lusts
Its lustre faded now since autumn eve
That God did leave to rust
OUTRO:
Autumn leaves - on the ground
Auburn, green, golden brown
Lost to freeze - stories now
Just as we - fallen down
Has the branch cause to grieve
As leaves dance on the breeze?
Who so cast, mourn the tree
When autumn leaves
OUTRO (SPOKEN POETRY):
"So careful of the type?" but no.
From scarped cliff and quarried stone
She cries, "A thousand types are gone:
I care for nothing, all shall go."
"Thou makest thine appeal to me:
I bring to life, I bring to death:
The spirit does but mean the breath:
I know no more." And he, shall he,
Man, her last work, who seem'd so fair,
Such splendid purpose in his eyes,
Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies,
Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer,
Who trusted God was love indeed
And love Creation's final law -
Tho' Nature, red in tooth and claw
With ravine, shriek'd against his creed
O life as futile, then, as frail!
O for thy voice to soothe and bless!
What hope of answer, or redress?
Behind the veil, behind the veil.
I saw the hippie.
"Stoke the fires, give your last, keep the flame of all we’ve known
For when heaven left us helpless, we built shelter of our own" 💙
That was beautiful!!!! Well done sir!!!!!!
hi again stupes. Day 418 of waiting for an ULTRAKILL song.
Will you do a second song about frostpunk 2 when it comes out, about how we succeed
Remember our old captain? The one that made us sing "So burn us in the furnace, Let our souls ignite the flames, Use our bones to stoke the embers, Use our blood to oil the chains!"? Ahh, what a time it was!
He was brned in the furnace. His soul ignited the flames. His bones were used to stroke the embers. And we used his blood to oil the chains.
@@blazzerrazzer3800literally.
What a time indeed.
Well, the old Captain is dead now... Long live the Steward!
@@11bitstudios What do YOU know about Frostpunk lore HUH?!
- Gets exiled
- Spits absolute bars
- Reads us a little bedtime story
- Refuses to elaborate
- Fucking dies
what a legend
I'd argue the elaboration was through the entire song.
Dude represents the player character who leads the people in the frozen tundra aftermath of society. He leads his people to come together to build a city. That city forms a parliament to make decisions together as a collective and to survive. Internal conflict between the various factions in the city drives the city to collapse while they fight against the perpetual frozen storms. The leader of the city must have been driven off during that period to find hope somewhere else. Failed in his mission he returns home to reminisce about where it all went wrong, create some kindling out of his former belongings and die a sad death.
@@pacmonster066wow didnt know the lore was that deep..
@@37Not73...I mean I'm just explaining what is plainly visible in the video. The only part I'm guessing on is the leader leaving to find hope somewhere else. But since the video starts with said leader heading back to their home, it's apparent he left at some point after the city fell. How do we know the city fell, we literally see the members of parliament fighting each other as Stupedium sings about their empire falling into the pyre and the frozen tundra claiming it
In Frostpunk, you play the leader who's making decisions on how to build a city and survive. Stupe's character is clearly the stand-in for that leader
ohh that makes sense
> "bedtime story"
>In Memorian 56
I love that the three frost punk songs create a full story
1) The Hope of rebuilding
2) The bickering between the fractions
3) the death of new London
Well done stupes
Different states of a falling nation
I disagree with the 2nd point- a purpose for new london was more about which path to take to survive the storm. You can still see that bickering in this song though as you get several segments involving that
@@dazedandconfused5711 yes you can see it in all the songs but the second song really accentuates, the two factions of faith versus order and the differences that ended up tearing new London apart
@@orangeandawesome4505 not really- faith and order are two factions in fp2. and by the end of the song, the other faction (depends on the channel) has been entirely abolished. the captain was able to keep the factions you see in frostpunk 2 at bay- the steward cannot.
When the Steward set alight the toy house and the other toy, it reminded me of:
"Is childhood so sacred? Or just resources wasted?"
This was a house within New London, so those toys were manufactured by their people. Yet in the end, all it became was fuel for a dying man's fire.
not just any house, i'm pretty sure it was his own home
@@Purrfect_Werecatit was the former captains, his predecessors.
@noahhornbeak8831 that was him pre-exile. That's why he drops the necklace and it immediately cuts to him in almost the same outfit (with more kempt facial hair) trying to lead the parliament.
More specifically, it's at least likely this was his own home, meaning these are either his or (more probably) his child's toys.
I personally err towards it isn't strictly his home, given that there's a newspaper talking about how the Steward was exiled on the floor. It may be the same block he lived in, or the next Steward lived there. [Cause obviously they'd still elect a new Steward]
oh my god he sets children's toys on fire
'Burn the incense of our innocence, and in a sense, we thrive'
Darn good callback
You might be the first person to catch that. ;)
It looks like this is his home - he was a leader that got banished.
If that is so, this would be his grandchildrens' toys.
That's why he hesitates to open the door - his family was still here when he was forced to leave, but since then, everyone has died. There was a good chance there would be frozen bodies inside.
Wait, you're not supposed to feed the children to the generator then?
_Is childhood so sacred, or just resources wasted?_
@@TheNapster153 No you feed the grandparents mod the children
I love the twist, that the old man was the steward, who dammed the city to fall. As he dies, he reads the last poem on earth about human nature and has a reflection. A reflection of human nature to follow ideals and then distort them or to become blinded by them, becoming hateful to everyone that doesn't follow. Our nature to combust to violence doomed us and now we have fallen to the same cycle that eventually destroyed us. So was the last thoughts of the poem and steward.
And then he plugs the new Frostpunk 2 Radeon RX7700 XT GPU by AMD and Saphire
@@thraexgladiator To be fair, they wouldn't have been able to use a snow machine if they hadn't
@@aranellonsora5038 In Memoriam, by Alfred Lord Tennyson, section 56.
@@thraexgladiator nah that was apart of the poem actually
@@Professorlicme8 makes me want an edit of this now lmao
Amazing that the sequel to Frostpunk also got a song! 💙
Thank you so much for being a part of the project and for giving me the opportunity! It was an honour!
@@TheStupendium Thank you! It wouldn't be a proper Frostpunk release without another outstanding song from you ❤
would be amazing if this was found in the game as a easter egg.
:D
It would be amazing if when the voting process for laws the council would turn on or off the lamps to signal their approval
“When Heaven left us hopeless, we built shelter of our own” GOES HARD
That was my favorite line
Indeed.
Very reminiscent of "If that sun won't rise on our horizon, we'll march on to spite the skies" from A Purpose For New London.
Mr. House: "I have some molten gold here to use as construction material for that, bit unorthodox but very high quality, accessible prices."
"For what is man but animal in all but face and name?
No fang but sharp of mandible when chanced to stake a claim"
LET IT BURN, I SAY
Rend it all to ash and dust
For as fools we are as fuel
It is our nature to combust
Holy shit this hits hard.
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That tracks, for what I've seen of what Frostpunk looks like
and the intensity of the whiteout; that burns our house down.
Now I'm wondering who thought it was a good idea to make a joke about how much heat a GPU is generating considering that's waste heat :D
ngl, my computer helps keep my room warm on these chilly mornings
If only they had my laptop, then they wouldn't have needed a generator in the first place
God I cannot get over how good that was, how absolutely phenomenal of a song - starting out with the lamentations of a last survivor, one who had once stood at the head of a city with so many lives in his hands, now alone and wandering in the snow, speaking of their failure - contrasted with the very failures that he so speaks of, the infighting and conflict, the folly of humanity as a whole, dragging themselves all down into the cold and the dark, ending with that bitter understanding, that burning acceptance that they were always destined to fail, to burn, and rounding it all off with a haunting poem about the futility of it all - the frailty of life, and the cruelty of mother nature, and her indifference to mankind and their pleas. Truly, absolutely incredible - storytelling, lyricism and acting all to the beat.
Thank you SO much! I really appreciate that you appreciate the story I wanted to tell and hit the themes I was going for do hard on the head!
@@TheStupendium Because you managed to convey it all so fantastically well! Everything from the framing of him alone in the snow, to the broken home as a reflection of the city, hollow and divided, to the burning of books and toys for another little bit of warmth as a representative that all the knowledge of the past and all their hopes for the future meant nothing against the cruel indifference of the cold. Genuinely, it's incredible how well you managed to combine both the song itself, the set work, and the actual events of the song together to tell the story so well!
I cried during the song
@@RockingSpaceDragon It's such a potent work, especially right now, when we're all sort of grappling with the fear of climate change looming just ahead of us in real life...Frostpunk taps into that really well, and Stupendium really knocked it out of the park distilling that into a beautiful work of art and storytelling that manages to make a song worth revisiting for its own sake at the same time.
the story across all the songs makes them all even better, which is impressive because they are all so good on their own!
Our dear Steward managed to pull together and save the city, but as it grew, the divisions started to form. Each taking a side thinking they were right in their direction, so a parliament was formed. The hope to bring the factions to work together and survive, but it was all for naught. The factions grew and began to argue, arguing turned to bitterness, and bitterness to hate. Our Steward so fed up with the divisions, unable to bring people back together and keep them alive snapped, their own exile the reward for all their hard work. They now return later, finding their old home abandoned and taken by the snow, to a city that has failed because they could not pull together. The advancements they had done taken under the heartless snow and used as simple kindling. The hopelessness sinks in and our Steward laments at all that has happened, speaking to the hopelessness and futility in the endeavor of even trying and that failure was inevitable. Beautiful! Simply beautiful!
Thanks for all the context!
DUDE YOU HAD CARL ON YOUR SONG??? OMG OMG OMG OMG--
CARL RECOGNITION! LETS GOOOOOOOO--
This production is absolutely insane, it's like you keep leveling up EVERY TIME. Love love love love this
Shoutout to the legendary Carl! I knew sending them that audition call was a good idea :3
Every single song, every single one
Whos carl?
The white haired guy?@@spiderunderyourbed6893
I AM SUCH A BIG FAN OF YOUR WORK!?!?!?
"Each citizen’s resilience was given with the lie, that each shiver would deliver us deliverance in time" is currently making me crying as i'm writing.
We already knew that the deliverance was a lie, but hearing it from an old man who had all his hopes crushed is trully painful
Is it a lie?
Because, the way I see it, we survived to see the city grow.
We didn't die in the storm, and we sure as heck didn't die after.
If anything, we achieved deliverence and now we (Frostpunk 2 citizens) must learn to fully value the sacrifices made.
@@TheNapster153 well, imo achieving the deliverance would be having the end of the storm, the moment when you won't ask yourself "will i die today ?", like being truly delivered
@@TheNapster153these songs are from a failed captain or steward, i think, not a successful one.
Whats more, They survived...for now...but a lot of the resource veins are noticeably finite once you switch from the small city in frostpunk 1 to the much larger scale play in 2. And the big Storm that shuts down everything in one is going to become a recurring phenomenon for a long while to come...
(There's still ways to secure seemingly unlimited supplies, mind you. But you have to wonder how long even those will last, really. Long enough for the planet to warm back up again and push the concerns of humanity's extinction into next milleniums problem? Perhaps...or pergaps not. )
The really messed up part: that's his old house, since it's got his portrait and the old Steward necklace in it, plus his books.
That implies that's his kid's toys that he burns to live a second longer.
What happened to those kids?
They yearned for the mines.
And, as tragic as it is, probably actually had the peace of death brought sooner onto them as a result instead of having to take their final breaths undoubtedly freezing and alone. Like... I genuinely get the sense he probably actually outlived them when New London fell. And if that is the case... I can't blame him for coming home to breath his last in a frozen home full of frosted over memories.
"is childhood so sacred or just resources wasted ?
@@rickytricks3019 Holy shit I just noticed
We had to resolve... To drastic measures when the food shortages nearly tore the city apart, and not even Sawdust and Soup was enough.
"Heave lads. Ho lads.
Forget the comfort of home - you’re a nomad"
And yet, where does our dear old captain find their end? But their old home
came full circle, he did
He couldn't forget
Pretty sure that's the Steward, but still good point
@@Zippsterman It is indeed the Steward - The Captain dies before they come into power, and the Steward brings the delegates
Hey, if you travel enough, you're bound to eventually return to your starting point.
> Premiere ends
> Immediately hit replay
Absolutely sublime, you've outdone yourself yet again!
I CANNOT EMPHASISE HOW MUCH I POPPED OFF AT THE REFERENCE TO THE PREVIOUS SONGS, LITERALLY HOOTING AND HOLLERING, ABSOLUTELY PHENOMENAL
So did we!
@@11bitstudios that is awesome to hear!!!!!
thanks for making these awesome games!
@@11bitstudiosI know you guys just finished Frostpunk 2. But when Frostpunk 3 comes out, can the next 'captain' figure be 'The Engineer?'
@@I_Am_Transcendentem i *need* to see frostpunk 3 but its a giant nuclear power plant
@@REZA-tl5kr frostpunk: steampunk. Frostpunk 2: dieselpunk. Frostpunk 3: Atompunk.
The excerpt where the captain's gaze is shown in close-up, as if looking straight into the viewer's soul, is simply stunning in the context of this situation. Like a silent questioning reproach:
"We were able to survive the fall of civilization, we were able to find and reach a place that became a shelter from the storm,we were able, despite all the catastrophes and losses, to found a city and not let it collapse under the threat of a merciless storm. We were able to leave you not just a generator, but a future where you would not have to repeat our sacrifices. And you lost all this. And because of what? Simply because you could not agree and come to a consensus? Sitting in the comfort of Parliament, far from the cold and blizzard, you could not find an agreement and this was the end of everything?!"
It takes hundreds to make a city rise but only a few in power to make it fall
May I kindly have a timestamp, good sir?
Edit: Found it myself, is it 4:43 you mean?
The elements care not how you align...
@@JimHoxworth-s5s Yes! It was just a short shot, but I thought it was very powerful. After the previous two videos, it had a very strong impact.
I've never played Frostpunk (maybe I should), but I always liked Shelter from the Storm. I've always thought of it as a beautiful ode to people uniting to make sacrifices for future generations, "an empire is strongest when people toil to grow trees whose shade they will never sit in". Also a compelling narrative of a leader's introspection as he comes to grips with the enormity of his responsibility to be a leader in dark times. I feel as though it presents a feeling similar to how I think Lincoln must have felt during The Civil War, for instance.
This song does a good job at being a gut-wrenching subversion of that. It seems to present the city as an almost self-perpetuating cycle of meaningless sacrifice and ultimately the city destroys itself as it seeks a purpose to all of this, while the leader has to cope with his failure to keep the city unified.
100% recommend frostpunk if you like survival like games and/or city builders, i recommend playing out each game out till you fail or suceed and then trying the dlc
i dislike this song because it gives the worldview of the collaspe being inevitable. while no empire lasts forever the idea that humanity will always turn on itself like a pack of dogs discredits literally thousands of years of people building architecture, infrastructure, belief and religious systems throughout history to get us here just to say "well who cares anyways why should i fight for society"
@@sovietunion7643 thats what does happen in the first game and from what i presume, the second one aswell, thats the theme of the entire world space of frostpunk, the collapse of civilsation and the coming of the second ice age
Frospunk is painfully straightforward in terms of the mechanics (which is excellent for newcomers). In terms of vibes though, it's [chef's kiss].
@@sovietunion7643 yup that's kinda a big part of what the games are about
I’ve been looking forward to this since Frostpunk 2 was announced
So did we! 😄
Same!!!! May the eternal flame never fade!!!!!
"Storm will come again!" Damn you great dark clouds!
Line goes hard tho
The City Must Not Fall
@@11bitstudios Hope rises, discontent falls. Can't wait for the release, I hope the special edition isn't delayed too much xD
Jéssica fuse e família servimos aó YHWH
"DAM YOU STORMCLOAKS SKYRIM WAS FINE UNTIL YOU CAME ALONG!"
I, for one, am quite glad that Stupendium undermined the bleak threnody with a cheerful and chipper ad immediately at its conclusion. This is simply because Stupendium does such an incredible job of crafting searing, biting satire in their works, I find myself wanting to extend a virtual hand and concernedly ask, "Is everything all right?"
I'm not going to parrot everyone else by saying how good and haunting this song is (but by Jove, I did cry while listening, pre-chorus is just so mournful and defeated, and the break in the voice at the end is heart-wrenching); what is really interesting is that in spite of the gloomy overall mood, the chorus keeps the "old" ideas of devotion, sacrifice, of raging against the unfeeling world and clinging to life with every last bit of man's strength, and delivers it with honest determination. Feels like for all that the Steward/Pilgrim does not completely regret that New London tried, for all that castigation of the civilisation delivered in the first verse.
Also, three more things. One, I find it a bit ironic that you went that way when Frostpunk 2 actually gives us the chance to rebuild civilisation when in 1 we could at best survive in comfort.
Two, I'm 99% certain that some of the orchestral background is sampled from the first game's OST.
Three, I'm not sure how much conscious ispiration it was, but the beginning reminds me a bit of the Preacher from Children of Dune - a powerful emperor turned hermit preaching against the empire he built.
I just realized in the final argument/brawl scene at the council each opposing faction is at each other’s throats for their specific views.
- Industrialization/innovation vs Environmentalism
- Faith vs Order
- New ways vs Old ways
I just thought it was a cool touch that didn’t have to be there but still was included anyways!
I did Musical theater for eons outa high school. Never sang but built sets, designed/made costumes, and ran the stage. Your songs take me back and I could not be happier listening and watching them. 😄
I also did costuming. Holy shit this video is godly. I love everything they did with these costumes.
@@benjaminwinnie4626Thanks! And costume makers are the coolest people I know!
God genuine chills at the "LET IT BURN" and the following lines, the expression on your face, the voice of a man who's lost all hope, carried so perfectly in the song, incredible work
Let us not forget the lines that are also delivered perfectly right after
"Rend it all to ash and dust
For as fools we are as fuel
It is our nature to combust"
admitting defeated that there was nothing to be done. That it was how humans are that the city was to burn as the last pyre of the world
This whole bit has been living in my head rent free since I first watched it.
"Just like Sisyphus / The myth of Us V. Never Ending Clime"
God, your wordplay remains my favourite bloody thing, Stupes - that line took me a second and caused a genuine fist-to-mouth gasp.
can u explain pretty pleas
@@LukeEmia_ Sisyphus is from Greek Mythology. His story is most notable for a part where he angered gods so much that he was punished by having to push rock to the top of the mountain, but he will always drop it and have to start all over again, for eternity. The Us V. Never Ending Clime (V. as in versus) talks about our struggle (in the game) and by comparison to Sisyphus it shows it as a neverending strife we are *not* meant to succeed at
@@kjm4721 thank u thank u
@@LukeEmia_ You're welcome Luke
@@kjm4721 And then, there's use of Clime as apposed to climb. We struggle against the climate, but it was here before us and will still be here after it's erased us.
“What seed will grow in bed of hope ,we must progress ourselves” what a line
I love the contrast between this and 'Shelter from the Storm', where the last one felt that there was hope just with enough determination and sacrifice, this one has lost any hope of surviving as humanity is truly dead.
Brilliant song, great work on it!
For the first, our egos allow us to believe we have the grit to wrestle mother nature under our control.
Here, we see that human nature was the greater threat all along.
@@rpgamer987 I disagree. Our ancestors lived and survived the last glacial maximum, clearely we have the means as a species to survive these kind of things. Furthemore we are gregarious, the need to maintain cohesive groups is instinctual. Granted relatively small groups, not whole cities, but still.
@@Etrelleythe last ice age was far from the full chill of what Earth has (and still can) inflict.
The Huronian and Cryogenian periods, for example, are far older, and saw oceans freeze over and glaciers all the way down to sea level at the equator.
Terrestrial life didn't exist at the time, but the life we currently have absolutely can't survive those conditions.
For that matter, neither can nearly all oceanic life.
The "upside" is that such conditions probably can't last for as long as the cryogenian period - I seem to recall continental drift and ocean currents of a supercontinent helped break the freeze.
A 7 minute ballad of the self destructive nature of man's differences and views, and how despite as much unity we forward march we eventually find things to bicker against eachother until our undoing? Stupendium, you spoil (and existentially terrify) us!
I am actually dumbfounded by how far you have come. In your last few drops, you have kept the same quality of wordsmithing we all know and love, but have added so many more visual details that resemble movie studio level skill. I just want you and everyone behind the scenes to know that your work is recognized and appreciated. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to analyze every byte of this song for all the hidden bits and bobs.
I would add that they also hugely improved in their wordsmithing. While It was always great, in the last year or so It really trascended from song lyrics to pure unfiltrated poetry
notes from the city must survive playing in the background was such a cool detail
Oh yes!
OH SHIT, @@11bitstudiosJUMPSCARE
"for all this air and bluster we're no better than the wind" is an amazing line
Can I just say how amazing the visual connections are during the first chorus?
"Keep the flame of all we've known" -> panning past lantern flame
"We built shelter of our own" -> wide shot of the hallway, showing it's a house that was lived in
"Heart and Hearth are Darkened where an endless storm has blown" -> shot through the broken window, wind and snow blowing in.
"Cling to every dying ember" -> Picking up the old necklace of office, the "ember" of the Steward's previous life.
"Remember warmth of home" -> after this it becomes the Steward remembering his past, with the main chorus line (that absolutely slaps, ofc)
"May our city stand, our promised land" -> Dropping the necklace to the floor and turning away, showing what happend to that promised land.
"Refuge from the dark" -> The lantern goes out, bringing darkness.
"So heavy hang the many hands" -> his hand trembling before the doorknob.
"Through the Storm" -> the camera pans through the wall.
How is it that despite watching this countless times, it's only thanks to your comment I noticed that his lantern goes out, and thats why he stays in the home.
"Each citizen’s resilience was given with the lie
That each shiver would deliver us deliverance in time
But dissonance and dissidence have driven us to schism,
Just like Sisyphus, the myth of us v never ending clime"
What an absolute amazing way to callback to the first song while progressing the story and displaying the characterization changes through time.
"When Mother Nature came for us, took Fahrenheit below, we sanctioned crimes of matricide and blackened skies with smoke."
My current Frostpunk play through just saw the temperature rise 60 degrees celsius with how absolutely fire that bar was. Stupes you mad lad, you've done it again!
We shall live another day! Until tomorrow when we drop back down to -100C
”HEAVE LADS HO LADS! FORGET THE COMFORTS OF HOME; YOU’RE A NORMAD!”
"WE LOST SO MUCH SIENCE WE FIRST STARTED,
IS OUR HEART COLD, OR ARE WE COLD HEARTED?"
@@Rrr-eb2gr "SO PRAY TO YOU LORD OR YOUR FOREMAN, THAT THE SUN MIGHT RISE IN THE MORNING!"
"THEY TOLD US HELL WAS WARM, BUT OUR EMPIRE FELL FOR SHELTER FRON THE STORM"
@@conradsmight2220”The strom’s coming, The storm came, The storm will come again!”
@@Nice_Structure_3034Tempest upon tempest till what's left to let the tundra claim?
1:27 The chorus here is amazing, genuinely sends shivers down my spine, and thats not because of the cold
I love this trilogy of songs. Fighting songs, desperately holding humanity together by any means necessary, but ending in a most tragic fashion: a beautiful poem and an ad read.
HOLY TARTER SAUCE
The first song was what got me into y’all in the first place, the remastered is in my daily playlist, and I know that this one will bang as well!
I love the subtle inclusion of the motif of "The City Must Survive". Noticed it around 2:55
holy crap you're right.. no freakin way, its hidden in the background throughout the whole thing, strings and all..
Dude. Just listened, the it gave me chills...The city must survive, it must? Then why are we here now, having failed to do what is a must?
It's in the whole song, you can hear it around 1:08
If this world dares to not celebrate your poetry just as viciously as it does the works of Shakespeare, Keats and Austen, I'll fricking come back to haunt the lot of them.
Seriously - your words are amazing and I'm saying this as a published writer of poetry.
I genuinely got teary-eyed at "Let it Burn, I say!" Every ounce of pain, regret, guilt, and resentment in your voice hit me like a truck. Another absolute banger! 🧡
5:16 me after I inevitably try the hardest difficulty. Thank you, for giving us such a wonderful song to hold us over until the game releases!
"each shiver will deliver us deliverance in time"
You really like that sentence don't you, I'm pretty sure you've used it in every Frostpunk song
Love a good call-back! Especially one that can recontextualize the original.
@@TheStupendium To be fair, it's a good sentence.
This comment kinda rubs me the wrong way with how passive aggressive it is
@@dazedandconfused5711it does seem rather aggressive.
4:48 You know its bad when even alcohol freezes.
so that's what that was lol I thought it was ashes
yeah.. alcohol freezing point is -114 c.... probably freeze up when the great storm
@@Emperor-oh7nb -114 c? Most alcoholic drinks will be solid at -30. Depends on how strong it is.
@@marcusc9931 owhh i see . Well i dont drink alcohol so idk the exact freezing point... I found that on google btw... Thanks for clarify
@@Emperor-oh7nb That's the freezing point of Ethanol, which is the active ingredient in alcohol. The stronger the spirit, the more ethanol and the less water, so stronger spirits move closer to that -114 degree point. That, by my eye, is whiskey, which, at 40% ethanol, freezes at about -30.
Saying the freezing point of alcohol is -114 is technically accurate, but most alcoholic drinks will be solid long before that.
This is hype, first one was a classic
Agreed!
both the game and the stupendium song ;)
same
This one feels like an instant classic!
At 5:06 when they all overlap their ideals with the stewards voice, is honestly one of my favourite pieces of a song I’ve ever heard. Your first shelter from the storm inspired me to play frostpunk about 4 years ago and I haven’t stopped playing since! Keep up the great work!
"When Autumn leaves". Simple yet genius
Not sure If I get it. Autumn left long ago (its a whole dlc). So I dont understand the "when".
@@lukiklepsa6218autumn *leaves* as in leaves that fall from autumn trees. "Autumn leaves" also as in the holiday Autumn *leaving* causing winter xD
@@Astewisk I get the line. I just dont get why its there. It sounds cool, so I guess that is reason enough.
@@lukiklepsa6218they're not saying 'when autumn will finally leave' theyre saying 'in situations where autumn leaves'
5:41 I love how out of all the Factions you depicted The Foragers as a chill stoner😅
wanted to heare his opinion in the political section
He's a bohemian
"Each building block a tinderbox how fitting it transpire,
The ending of an empire be reduced to just the pyre."
I love that line.
I love "the freezing point of human will".
I just want to highlight the start. Not the beautifully sung call-back that is the intro, but the first line of the first verse: "Storm’s coming. Storm came. Storm will come again."
That line sets the whole theme of the video, song and story and is delivered perfectly.
Who needs fire from burning coal when there's fire in these bars? Truly incredible work as always.
Stupes, I applaud thee, for you have done the impossible and created a song to truly surpass your countless other masterpieces. The lyrics, the quotes, the EMOTION, the LEITMOTIF'S!!! You, my dear friend, are a master of the arts and through this song you may just outlive yourself.
Thank you, Stupes, for sharing your incredible art with us. We do not deserve you, but we love you.
I'm just-
taken a back, you really feel the hopelessness in those words.
It's just so well made, the lyrics, the story. You really see the values of each member of the parlament through their lyrics, one believes we may innovate a solution to the cold, another believing we can adapt by just changing our ways, another believing survival through faith. All in vain.
Then there's the set design, the costumes, the makeup. They all come together to really inmerse you into this world.
And if you've watched the previous Frostpunk songs this just hits harder, a once hopeful city with such fervent fervour now reduced to just its captain.
I almost forgot, the vocals in this one, the high pitched singing of old lyrics make it feel like a ghost long gone, the loud symphony of determination changing to just the mournful and frustrated captain just was, goodness. So powerful.
Always a delight hearing and seeing a new song from you Stupes, and perrenially impressive every time I am just amazed and in awe with all of the detail
"Stoke the fires, give your last. Keep the flame of all we've known"
Perfect. How it shows strive to keep flame of civilisation alight, against all odds, and regardless of the cost.
“After the fallout, comes the winter” I was so EXCITED when I heard that in divide!!
Your songs frequently have social messages, but this one is, without question, the one whose message spoke most deeply to me. Across the world, people stand in their entrenched beliefs; but when we move from disagreeing with others' beliefs to hating them as people for holding them, we open the door to humanity's worst impulses. The plague of disagreement becoming division is sweeping the world, and it's perhaps the foremost social threat of our time.
I despise the winter but couldn’t wait to hear the ice cold lines you delivered. SFTS gave us one of the most gut wrenching emotional experiences which went way beyond the game, and I had high hopes for this one, too. Still, I didn’t expect to be moved to tears. First hit the chorus and then the burning of the childhood, innocence, past, and then the waterworks truly came. I’m going to need a moment to recover. Wow.
Knowing Stupe's was going to make another frostpunk song has honestly been the highlight of the games buildup for me- The costume, the set, the lyrics... god i just know i am going to be obsessing over this for the next year. Great work as usual mate, keep up the good work, and hope you kept a penny or two of the sponser money!
Oh heck yeah! Shelter From The Storm was the song that introduced me to your work, this one goes even harder and gives me an even colder feeling. Love the numerous callbacks and the addition of Tennyson.
Oh it just hit me. If I understand, this is the Captain, he's returned to his old house, and he's the last survivor of the city. Which means the toys...
...he really has lost everything.
I never believed in reincarnation until I heard Stupendium and realized that Shakespeare decided to respawn and play another round.
0:42 "arose by any other name" oh my goodness, I absolutely did not catch that the first dozen times I rewatched this.
What did it mean im stupid :(
@@epicdrill1756I think its in reference to how you could name your own city in Frostpunk 1’s endless mode
@@epicdrill1756 It's a Shakespeare reference, "A rose by any other name"
ARE OUR HEARTS COLD OR ARE WE COLD-HEARTED?!!?!!
The voices blended together beautifully in this one! Everything came together for a hauntingly beautiful song about Humanity itself
great appetizer for the upcoming release
definitely!
I have no idea why, but this song is the only thing that can calm down my 2 year old when he's throwing a tantrum and whenever the song stops he starts bawling again until I hit repeat. Not certain if that's hilarious or incredibly ominous.
"for what is man but animal/ in all but face and name?/
No fang but sharp of mandible/ when chance to stake a claim."
Is pure poetry; this line might as well be a Tennyson quote.
And the relentlessness of the build into "LET IT BURN I SAY!" And that whole section, really earned the emotion. That bit makes me cry from sheer panic and distress at the human condition.
This is fucking phenomenal.
Thank you so much! I was very proud of that section. :)
"The nub will be we found the freezing point of human will" is a masterful and haunting line and it is going to stay with me for a WHILE I am certain.
This song is absolutely my favorite! I absolutely love the chorus melody. The "shiver will deliver us" line is such a powerful line as well as "the freezing point of human's will". Cinematic instrumental plus amazing vocals and harmonies resulted in an song I'll be listening on repeat! Amazing job, Stupes!
I’m screaming. Crying. This is cinema. This makes me want to make a dnd world based off it. The call backs to shelter from the storm and A purpose for new London. The regret, the loss. I love it so much!!!
Have had to listen to this multiple times, it's amazing how much more intricate your songs and videos have become over the years. Takes multiple times to appreciate every different bit of thought put into the lyrics and video.
I really love how each different council member's bit reflects their ideology. Also love how the chorus at first is the unifying cry for all to keep the city alive as the last hope, only to become the cry of division as different views begin to pull the city in different directions. Only to eventually ignite in violence and collapse as the chaotic lyrics propose each opposing ideology in more extreme terms, highlighting the escalation of conflict and unwillingness to compromise for the sake of the city's survival. The final reflections are what really hit the hardest, with the Captain's final lamentations regarding human nature, how we fight against the end with anything and everything we can, yet like the inevitable nothing really changed in the end.
I could go on but your work speaks for itself, truly a masterwork piece of music and video.
Just wanted to ask on 2:03 the character hesitates to open the door, it is because of some internal conflict or because the doorknob is made out of metal and it is unsafe to touch it in extreme cold?
Little of both! Emotional was intended, he's returning to the home he once lived in, with his now almost certainly dead family. As an actor, my thought process behind the performance was 'this man doesn't know if he'll find the bodies of his family behind this door, he has no idea what happened to them after he was exiled.'
This song has such an amazing production. And the emotion in the last verse made this my favorite song from you, literally brought tears into my eyes. Such an amazing sequel to already amazing song of an amazing game
Excellent work. A worthy sequel to one of your absolute best songs.
I love how all the parliament members sing the chorus together, and with such fervour. "United in conviction" like the lyrics say. Sadly that isn't enough. Even if people can agree on the destination, they will still endlessly argue about the exact path. History has countless examples.
Trust in the legacy our captain left! May our Steward guide us to a brighter dawn! The. City. Must. Thrive.
Our glorious city!
@@11bitstudiosmay the city and us thrive throughout the days years and millennia’s to come but we have a job to do still no time to rest we must get to work
Bruh!!! That rhyme scheme at 4:11 😵💫
I was especially proud of that one, glad you dig it, man! :)
"For as fools we are as fuel, it is our nature to combust." Will now be permanently burned into my memory, what an amazing line.
These choruses just never miss oh my god
I don't know who sang the chorus but god damm it sounded heavenly and amazing job to everyone involved
The choirboy vocal was provided by @CarloftheBells
They did amazingly! :D
Phenomenal as always
This carries such a depressing tone, one of painful reflection and a sense of hopelessness and regret. To reference the original song in such ways, makes it all sound like it was not at all worth it, and that in carrying on, we just pushed our city to a later, inevitable fate
great job
I'm kind of jealous of how well you pull of literally any outfit.
The spoken word bridge is absolutely mind boggingly stupendous.
"Like sisyphus the myth of us v never ending clime" is an incredible use of words and makes exceedingly jealous of of your penship my friend!
I only hope that i could write as eloquently as you can
"just like sisyphus the myth of us v never-ending clime" is SUCH A FREAKING GENIUS LINE it's not fair for other people to be this talented
'We must all rise together lest we all fall apart' 'Stoke the fires, give your last, keep the flame of all we’ve known/For when heaven left us helpless, we built shelter of our own'
So many lines of this go hard af, this is such a wonderful response to the song for the original game. I loved all the callbacks.
Love it, and how curious it mirrrors the official trailer just also released, of the captain, now old and powerless, watching his city crack and shake, in his dying moments.
Might just be me imagining Easter Eggs out of nothing, but the combo of the words "fallen down" with the visuals of that particular silhouette style at 3:21 feels way too deliberate to not be a Fallen London reference.
Thought as much as well!
Oh, I need this preview song in my playlist. It's petty, it's amazing, it's masterpiece!
I love too see how much youve grown from when we happy few came out to now your spark hasnt gone out and your fire to make amazing songs shall never end
Many entertainers on this platform are musicians, but not many amongst those are also poets. Well done, I say. Very well done indeed.
What a song! Just, wow. The first Frostpunk song had a tone of "sacrifice, for the city must survive", the remake changed to "give your hearts, the city WILL survive", but this is different. It sounds like the city grew too large, too diverse in the citizens ideals. The storm did not destroy New London, the citizens did. Led by misguidance in a house divided, the city did fall, and this, its dieing words. I absolutly love it. (Hopefuly its not foreshadowing to my city once I get the game)
I like how most of what the counsel is saying is largely the same thing, yet they argue
5:59 dude your performance on this part was so good it drove me to go to my local library and reserve a copy of Tenysons poems for myself.
"But if we were to summary"
"our great and grand discoveries"
"The nub would be"
"We found the freezing point of human will"
faaaaaaaaawk that hits so hard...
This song was just the cause of the most crazy coincidence.
I was visiting my parents, and heading to the stores while singing this under my breath. Some random guy passes nearby, and starts singing too, loud enough for me to hear. I don't know the guy, and I didn't stop him, but apparently someone in my hometown also has good taste in music!
Oh my god that is literally my dream interaction with someone 😭
Saw the premiere. I needed to get my thoughts in order but seriously... this was *epic* and while I know that word gets thrown around a lot, I truly mean it. This is a professional work in all meanings of the word. Amazing, Stupendium.
Love as how the captain says "let it burn i say" u also see right before it the steward does the same. The steward going crazy from the squabbling and he himself going crazy aswel from seeing the squabbling.