Build that wall
Bastion OST Lyrics

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Aimee Mann She's been a long time on the phone Courtin' disaster in…
Aimee Mann/Supertramp/Jon Brion She's been a long time on the phone Courtin' disaster in…
Ashley Barrett I dig my hole, you build the wall I dig my…
Bastion I dig my hole, you build the wall I dig my…
Bastion [OST] I dig my hole, you build a wall I dig my…
Darren Korb I dig my hole you build a wall I dig my…
Darren Korb & Ashley Barrett I dig my hole, you build a wall I dig my…
Darren Korb (feat. Ashley Barrett) I dig my hole, you build a wall I dig my…
Darren Korb / Ashley Barrett I dig my hole, you build a wall I dig my…

Darren Korb feat Ashley Barrett I dig my hole, you build a wall I dig my…
Darren Korb ft. Ashley Barrett I dig my hole, you build a wall I dig my…
Jon Brion & aimee mann She's been a long time on the phone Courtin' disaster in…

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Most interesting comment from YouTube:

@Belzughast

3y↑4

A good song can be interpreted in many ways. It can be fear, sadness or failure, singing to you and telling you how futile your coping with reality actually is.
As just around the corner there's a disaster of such proportions that will break down all of your defences.
Even teases you with freedom ''someday your bird is gonna fly'', which can be seen as ''your death''.

Different take can be having a narcisstic or arrogant attitude, which is the wall itself.
And it's lonliness singing to you, mocking your absent sex life with ''someday your bird is gonna fly''.

Or it's changes that sing to you, no matter how static and unmovable you think you are, they will come as it's the nature of the universe. Entropy.

It can also be seen as squable between lovers, with the voice having some hope in returning to previous state but being fatalistic in assuming that before the relationship has any chance of surviving, the lovers will become strangers again. You can feel the invisible walls build up as the relationship deteriorates, you step very carefully as not to fall in one of the trou-de-loups that ends it.

Or indecision. A missed oportunity of not taking any action in overanalyzing a specific situation that requires instant solution.

Deep, deep song.

Edit:
One more for fun,
It can also be a tale of a fox hunting near a city diggin holes and being annoyed about people building walls as he tries to hunt down the hens.

All comments from YouTube:

@TheLeadhound

5y↑1.7K

And that's when the kid hears something he'll never forget. How did it go again? Ahhh that's right...

@laurens.6940

4y↑63

dude YOU JUST BLEW MY GOD DAMN MIND

how fucking dare you

@mbe102

4y↑28

@@laurens.6940 yeah, I didn't put that together until just now as well haha.

@SavCorp

4y↑55

i could legit hear the narrator’s voice

@thechaotichuntress

4y↑61

The kid sits and listens for awhile.

@beandude396

3y↑8

damn u just made me want to replay bastion, thx bruv

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@tywinlannister4842

2y↑1K

It was really nice to hear this at game awards today, I wasn't expecting that

@danek38rus

2y↑18

i certainly was hoping to see their new game. Looks like i will have to wait 'till E3

@kingbode2611

2y↑5

Couldn't be happier!

@raymwelselibio3202

2y↑19

Mashed up with Enemies!

@paranoidhumanoid1022

2y↑2

madness, madness and stupidity

@linusporter1091

2y↑8

It caught me SO OFF GUARD! Hahaha

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@firestalker11

4y↑667

"Kid just sits and listens for awhile..."

@stoffelthedestroyer3741

4y↑28

"The match is struck, a star is born."
oh wait, wrong narrator..

@DesignedbyHumans

2y↑2

hahaha I heard that about 5 times

@altusshow7574

2y↑371

My daughter came home from school today, telling me her teacher played a song by someone called "Bastards". After some questioning, finally figured out she was talking about Bastion, and it was this song. Her music teacher played this song as part of her class.

I just thought that was pretty cool.

@cellP8

2y↑7

Best teacher ever

@Ytj9957

2y↑6

@@cellP8 not if that teachers was from Texas 😆

@cellP8

2y↑4

@@Ytj9957 or Canada lol

@ericnordmann4807

1y↑1

no way!! that's awesome!!

@ericnordmann4807

1y↑2

@@Ytj9957 hmm?

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@joshuabanks91

1y↑33

"So build that wall and build it strong, 'cause we'll be there before too long."
It's somehow mocking, menacing and haunting all at once.

@jmaths117

29w↑3

It’s a war song. Super badass. I would be afraid if there was an entire race of warriors who didn’t give a fuk how tall of a wall I built, they were still gonna wreck my chit.

@TheGrandRevo

The Huns

@parkerdixon-word6295

4y↑813

The first time you hear it: Ungodly Beautiful

Hearing it once you've gotten through most of the game: Still beautiful, but also terrifying.

@cranapple3367

3y↑69

...cause we'll be there

Before too long...

@friend4596

3y↑10

On I've not played the game but listened to the soundtracks looking forward to be terrified.

@Fataky

3y↑26

This comment has sold me on the game better than any trailer.
I just bought it.

@parkerdixon-word6295

3y↑7

@@Fataky Have fun, it's great ride.

@realmadrid7129

2y↑2

I played the game but don't get why it's terrifying

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@romponun

4y↑370

This song alone pays for whatever the games costs you.

@renoshires

3y↑23

Come for the gameplay and art, stay fkr the soundtrack

@claws61821

3y↑9

@@renoshires and the narration

@MD1O32

2y↑2

This game has the best soundtrack and audio design of any game I’ve ever heard. It’s a monument of beautiful sound.

@toritwopointoh

cost me three bucks on the nintendo eshop. easily the most value i’ve ever gotten from three bucks.

@dougthemoleman

5y↑515

Darren is a fantastic songwriter. Ashley and he have the voices of angels.

@wilson9263

4y↑21

If Ashley Barett has or ever will have a child then I'll be jelous because I never had a lullaby sang to me in her voice.

@omnirhythm

4y↑12

And thankfully, they got their due credit for it <3

@irreleverent

3y↑24

@@omnirhythm I'm very thankful that it's pretty widely known that Darren Korb is a huge part of why supergiant games has made such memorable works. (And that he's done it so fucking consistently. Dude does not fucking miss)

@isakhammerin6435

Don't you mean she ? Well that's very very true

@AbdulazizOla

30w

@@isakhammerin6435

darren is the studio songwriter and I think composer (also: singer and voice actor) and Ashley is their female singer

@SieNoel

2y↑256

So glad to see this song get the spotlight it's deserved for years tonight in that incredible medley at The Game Awards

Thank you for your artistry and musicianship every time, Darren & Ashley!

@greenwood6781

I learned about this song because of awards, I'm gratefull

@Eaglelives

4y↑309

Singing along to this with a few hundred people yesterday at the concert in London was pretty fucking glorious.

@OilyOaf

3y↑4

@Zabeer Farid SCIENCE

@obrgrs2547

3y↑15

Actually what the fuck? What was it called?

@TheBenjaminLiew

yeah what? how awesome

@TheAlmightyJello

4y↑166

The first time in a game I sat, completely slack-jawed at the beauty of a scene.

@aceangel5891

4y↑8

Nier: Gestalt
Song of the Ancients played by the well.

You’re gonna have the same reaction.

@AJPDing

4y↑4

@@aceangel5891 Final ending of Automata too

@TheSundayGamer

5w↑1

Gonna have to replay Bastion just to hear this song in context for the goosebump factor. This was a lighting in a bottle moment for Darren and Ashley. This is such a sublime piece.

@fyrerider521

5y↑151

This is... interesting.
Oh, just noticed the rest of the soundtrack went up too. Nice.

@nousername191

5y↑10

Reminds me of when other channels had the soundtrack. Forgot Supergiant themselves never put it up until now.

@toadster464

2y↑175

Okay, I want to know how we got the Build That Wall/Enemy remix at the game awards. That was just amazing and completely unexpected. Bastion came out almost 10 years ago so this had to be a request from imagine dragons for Mr. Korb. I know I would.

@alexsilva28

2y↑9

Yeah. One of them probably likes the game? Or maybe Geoff asked them to?

@LuisAlvarez-mm5oh

2y↑16

The composition is pretty similar; they got a bit where the melody is practically the same

@adhwake

2y↑7

@@LuisAlvarez-mm5oh true , i would have assumed that was one reason...or maybe darren joins the S2 music team? (Fingers crossed)

@LuisAlvarez-mm5oh

2y↑1

@@adhwake That would be great, imo the music in Arcane S1 was the worst thing about the show

@adhwake

2y↑15

@@LuisAlvarez-mm5oh well I'd disagree with you there :) but then everyone has their opinion. Good we agree on the earlier point.

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@GreatGreenGoo

2y↑30

I remember playing the game expecting nothing really and on this level when you hear the humming I just put the controller down and just listened in awe. It was like a perfect moment in time I will never forget

@princessthyemis

5y↑142

BASTION'S SOUNDTRACK IS SO GOOOOOD

@DeathOfLadybugs

21w↑4

Still stuck in my head years and years later. I hum it often :)

@misterbennnn

38w↑6

This still gets stuck in my head, 12 years later.

@NeroVingian40

5y↑89

And thus, the circle is complete...

Thank you, Supergiant Games, and thank you to Darren and Ashley too.

@sitemoth

27w↑3

I love how this calm guitar song just has these threatening, war-song like lyrics.

@eathotdog

3y↑43

game came out 10 years ago and I still find myself humming this song almost every day.

@Tothro

5y↑42

One thing that got into my head and would always bothered me afterwards was the idea that Mia's instrument wouldn't produce this kind of sound.

@TheRealSkeletor

Who's Mia?

@Seb_No.13

3y↑4

Think he meant Zia

@amarettolimoncello135

5y↑85

This scene in the game is just so soothing and dreamy 😭😭😭 I can still remember how emotional I was when I first encountered this song!

@DudeinGA

2y↑20

If Johnny Cash were alive, he would sing this. It has a lot of the elements he likes in his music.

@SgtKaneGunlock

2y↑1

I could see him Doing Pantheon too or a version of it because he did change a few things in covers from time to time but i don't think anyone would mind...cuz you know The man in Black

@Xayjohns

2y↑15

I had heard of the game (haven't played it unfortunately), but I hadn't heard this song before until it was performed at the Game Awards this year. Terrific.

@HamamNasrodin

50w↑4

I played this game in 2011 and now almost 12 years passed

@bawenn

36w

:,)

@locheildevlin697

4y↑51

Makes you want to invade Caelondia

@zaidthefinalboss2727

makes me want to invade poland

@ianm5686

2y↑17

Hearing this mashed up with Enemy by Imagine Dragons was probably the best official collaboration I’ve heard between two musical artists

@OrbisAetherum

21w↑2

"But now you've got nowhere to run." omg

@The-Faceless-Man

2y↑8

I don’t know how I know this song but when I heard it in the game awards a memory appeared that was buried

@ioniann7741

2y↑10

Nobody talking about how well this transitioned into Arcanes Enemy?

@yuancruz9038

2y↑3

I love this that version so much! The female vocals mixed with Enemy is so good!

@thiti_4811

25w↑2

I kinda regret I didn't play that game earlier, because I'm not usually interested in short indie games, but I did play Hades last year and loved it so I thought Bastion could be worth a try since it's the same devs, plus I felt like I needed a chill game because of personal issues. And as soon as I met Zia for the first time and heard her sing I immediatly recognized Ashley Barret, since she also voiced and sang as Eurydice in Hades. Now I just finished Bastion and man, I don't regret having bought the game at all, even though I had trouble following the lore and story because I focused on the gameplay and couldn't really keep up with the narrator, still a masterpiece from great devs

@explodingtomahawks7589

2y↑7

I stumbled on this song one day, fell in love with it, and once I found out it was in a video game I immediately bought it. What an amazing game and soundtrack.

@tishirowalker321

3y↑11

I didn't realize how much fun this game was. It took me forever to finally play this. I'm glad I did

@tommyboy81

5y↑21

This will never ever get old!

@SilverKnight16

4y↑38

This song seems super relevant now.

@eDrIClImOAnCo

5y↑22

Oh. OH! What beautiful sounds. Lovely as always.

@danykrwn

4y↑8

Glad i found this again even with the playlist. Damn love this song so much

@projektspark5353

5y↑339

Be honest: this is the first one you checked out

@CuteKyuubi

3y↑4

No, I checked out The start of the playlist

@anneramsey4655

3y↑2

the pantheon

@m0ckyzo185

Yup

@noah-8595

5y↑33

A surprise to be sure, but a welcomed one

@Moggleberries

5y↑9

I still listen to this every week..

@Kindred...

2 years later, do you still listen to it?

@Moggleberries

2y↑1

@@Kindred... sure do!

@svarc92

4y↑6

This song bring so much memories from the game!

@donovynavila528

1y↑2

I'm here to redirect my traffic to the algorithm I want more of this. I would like to 2019 me for finding this. And a special thank you, Mr. Korb for writing it.

@mymiqua

3y↑10

I can’t love this tune more. This girls voice is too beautiful ❤️

@pressqtoquaff

2y↑2

still makes me cry

@glenndonnelly2661

4y↑17

I've never completed Bastion, so It can always feel like the first time playing when I return to it.

@terrynewsome6698

4y↑10

He had seen the world fall apart, and was forced to make the hardest decision. Live through it again and to save those he lost, or let the world try to move on from this. What did you choose?

@bigszop673

4y↑3

I chose evacuation

@miragetheshadow

Evac. Save Zulf and evac. I had too :')

@RosariaDewi

3y↑1

why i tear up again listening to this. it's been too long since i played the game

@dogdi._

3y↑7

obrigado void por me trazer aqui

@snocades

3y↑6

hearing this song in-game, when i carried zulf back, was the first time I cried playing a videogame

@harryread7663

3y↑27

"I dig my hole, you build a wall."
Iron Warriors vs Imperial Fists in a nutshell.

@samdee8185

4y↑5

I love this song!!!! 🥰

@kaidox5639

2y↑1

Never played but IN LOVE with the song

@myassuda

4y↑5

this song made me cry =,(

@princessthyemis

5y↑5

Best song ever!!!!!

@wesleybailey1607

28w↑1

Build that wall build that wall BUILD THAT WALL

@icebear8593

3y↑11

Achei sem querer essa música no SoundCloud e me apaixonei por ela, a lentidão da música, a melodia e o solo de violão por quase a música inteira antes de ter um crescimento repentino no instrumental, perfeita ♥️

@MinutoInfinite

qria saber tocar :(

@cr7nogalo

@@MinutoInfinite entao... aprende?

@MinutoInfinite

@@cr7nogalo até procurei tutoriais mas não lembro de ter encontrado

@CastleBomb44

4y↑2

Great song <3

@thatonedude05

Those damn Ura nearly ransacked the city, and they keep singing about how the Rippling Walls won't work and how they'll take the city "before too long"...

@zambranaazurduyyussefmanue1745

2y↑2

The best

@myerr21

3y↑6

This game flew under a lot of peoples radar but we all know. We know its the shit.

@KawOficial

3y↑4

Incrível...

@Arsenov92

4y↑6

"Old ginger man sits down and listens for a while..."

@KadurOrdo

4y↑7

There was a version double the lenght but its been set to private. So sad this one's so short but beautiful nevertheless ✨

@voidzinn6979

3y↑4

void append...

@Oliveiraz

3y↑2

Como eu criei um universo inteiro no Minecraft

@Lumnoss

2y↑1

This is such a beautiful song. Also side quest? There is a song I just heard that has the lyrics "oh try to break me only you can save me." which has a VERY similar melody to Zia's theme if not the same only more rock sounding. I am trying to find it but no luck.

@binglemccringle705

2y↑2

i hope im not the only one
4, not three
four guitar bits not three, always start the next bit of lyrics a bit too soon

@chenelcariaga4258

1y↑4

This could also be a good soundtrack for a zombie game 👌.

@seupaidecalcinha6790

Mano I love this song 😍

@user-fb4gt4dk1r

4y↑1

Song good~

@solgast

35w

Bridge your dreams to reality.

@dandundun

5y↑21

I assume we're just changing the visuals.

@samixxx43

2y↑4

I'm here from the Game show awards 2021 👌

@itz.just_a_normal_girl4641

3y↑5

Aqui pelo Void Append 😁

@Spooky_Spookerson

1y↑3

Bastion ran so Hades could fly.

@vcap7859

4y↑9

Vim pelo Void, obrigado por essa excelente música.

@mano3049

4y↑2

Tbm kkk

@TornadoWhirl33

4y↑1

Arigatou!

@MinutoInfinite

3y↑1

tbm kgsnn

@alencar1651

2y↑1

Eu também. Que felicidade de ver mais alguém KKKK

@vcap7859

@@alencar1651 brs marcando presença kkk

@natanvelloso0

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@imbw267

4y↑12

America: Build that wall until it's done!
Coronavirus: And now you've got nowhere to run.

@axilerjoshepgarciacruz621

22w↑1

Hi, new fan here...

@sougottoh

3y↑1

thanks void

@danifandxm

3y↑1

I remember there was an old Minecraft video with this song,,, now I can't find it anymore,,, does anyone else remember that?

@victorsantosrohod4855

5y↑4

@walkerdina8566

2y↑1

2021 game awards

@botanesia_

2y↑5

This songs combined with Enemy Imagine Dragon, just perfect.

@operatorbugman3031

4y↑2

I miss all these good ol games

@andrewlash166

3y↑6

I blame this game for making me fall in love with the indie scene.

@reynaldk6816

5y↑10

Why build a wall when the other side could just dig a hole underneath it?

@locheildevlin697

4y↑20

that's the point of the song, yeah.

the Ura are taunting the Caels for how useless the walls are

@locheildevlin697

4y↑10

@Vandaleyes I believe the point is they're coming to kill the Caelondians. It's a war song.
They have their own city, the Tazal Terminals, the game's final level

@pheonixwrong1431

3y↑2

I think it's due to SPOILER

||how the wall proved useless against the calamity unlike how the ura hole houses proved a far greater defense to it

@izaacvieira1255

4y↑4

Vim pelo Void

@Belzughast

3y↑4

@66Kusmu

3y↑2

These are pretty cool analyses, but I feel it's more literal, relating to it's context in the game.

@DanteRU0312

3y↑2

...this song literally has one interpretation: Fuck Caelondia. From Ura, with love.

@fuyuk3777

3y↑4

void

@skullkid9923

Happy 10th anniversary

@notplz

4y↑5

vim pelo void

@ben_011

3y↑2

V-void-sama

@Oshiirooo

4y↑14

Vim pelo void append alguem mais? :D

@oMiih

eu, essa musica é muito boa, em menos de 1 mes ja sei a letra toda :D

@Nertury

eu kkkkkk

@Flailmorpho

5y↑48

I love that this song is an anthem about the pointlessness of walls

this song is somehow more political today than when it first released

@JakeN482

4y↑11

@@SaltpeterTaffy Caelondia is an imperialist and vaguely fascist aggressor that engaged in multiple genocides of the Ura. The main protagonist was explicitly stated to be picked upon by others because he looked different, despite the fact he was a born citizen of Caelondia. The game's primary good ending involves rehabilitative justice for Zulf, disobeying Rucks' wishes for activating the Bastion's reset function, and leaving Caelondia to ruin. Caelondia straight up needed to die to end the cycle.
Yes the song is a threat, because Caelondia was an evil nation and needed to die because it demanded other nations be subservient or be erased. You can threaten the wicked without compromising the moral high ground. Following the logic that the game and song presents reveals we should engage with either reforming or abolishing any nation that follows in Caelondia's footsteps.

@SaltpeterTaffy

4y↑1

@@JakeN482 There is no real-world analogue to Ura following this interpretation. So far the ONLY connection to Trump is the wall. The intent of the wall is not to keep away an invading force looking for revenge. That's my point, if the Cael and their wall represent Trump's America, then the Ura, a vengeful guerrilla force, represent...illegals? Is that what illegals seek to do? No. They come here because they like what we have, not because they want to see it burn.

@JakeN482

4y↑6

@@SaltpeterTaffy Your analysis is both ahistorical and overly literalist. The Ura need not represent just one demographic, but the multitude of cultures that had been squashed or slighted by America. The US has been involved in a imperialist campaign in Latin America for centuries, with a variety of different ideological and materialist justifications, through dozens of administrations, and with many different bags of tricks. Furthermore the USA has engaged in genocidal behavior several times against the Native Americans as part of Manifest Destiny. The country has a history of racial violence against Italian and Irish immigrants during the eras in which they were fleeing from their countries. The Japanese were interned during WW2. African Americans suffered both slavery and an American apartheid. Hell, even the internally facing War on Drugs creates incentive structures in Latin America that create cartels that their population wants to flee from.

The Wall is just the latest incarnation of America not wanting to own up to the fact it's been a deeply destabilizing force for many countries and races, and that it wants to shut the door after robbing the wealth and resources from nations it positions itself as a paternalistic figure over. The current justification for jailing immigrants rather than legalizing them is "fuck you got mine" at best and fascistic at worst. If the wall gets built, sentiments like those in the song will get expressed.

@SaltpeterTaffy

4y↑1

@@JakeN482 I disagree with your assertions, I disagree with your rhetoric, and that you would call my words "literalist" instead of literal suggests prejudice.
You want me to agree with all that irrelevant blather about America's history of oppression. I am ONLY arguing about the aptness of the analogy, and Bastion is not so complicated that you can reasonably divine all of that from it.

@JakeN482

4y↑3

@@SaltpeterTaffy
1) "Literalist - Noun. literalist (plural literalists) A person who adheres to the literal representation of a statement or law. A person who translates text literally. (art) One who works in the style of literalism. " You engage in this type of literary analysis when saying "There is no real-world analogue to Ura following this interpretation." by demanding that a real world analogue must be a single group.
2) What assertions are there to disagree with? Caelondia was founded as a colonialist endeavor. The kid was discriminated against due to having white hair. Zia was discriminated against despite being born in Caelondia. The Caelondian empire invaded the Ura's land for a mix of materialist and fascistic reasons. Caelondia demanded assimilation of the Ura within the borders it had conquered. It built a wall to control Ura movements on Ura land after strangling them economically. The Caelondians worked on a secret project with the goal of genociding the Ura. All of this are facts in the game. All of these facts have real world parallels in the history of the US. Hell, one of the lines in this song, "Go build that city up on a hill", has a real US parallel via the "City upon a Hill" line in John Winthrop's lecture prior to him and his colonists leaving for what would eventually become Boston.

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