Songfacts®:

• This song finds vocalist Rou Reynolds likening what he sees as the final days of capitalism to coastal engineers failing to protect someone's house on a cliff. Reynolds told Kerrang!: "That was based on an intro track we used when we played at Reading and Leeds in 2010. It's a string composition that I wrote and then put vocals over the top. We loved the feel of it, so used it again with a new set of verses. It's gentle and yet quite tense and introduces the theme of what's to come."
• The song started off life as a short piece of music for a string quartet. Reynolds explained to Alternative Press: "It was beginning to sound so tense and carried such a feeling of expectancy that I decided to try writing lyrics to it and generally evolve the song into a Shikari track."