Songfacts®:

• Ben Savage of Whitechapel spoke to us about a nightmare he once had where the band had to go into the studio with no material. In reality, though, "we're always writing," he said. "We always have ideas."
  
  This song was based on a different dream - one that came to their lead singer Phil Bozeman. In the dream, the singer was in the middle of an endless line of people that stretched past the horizon, and no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't escape.
• The song harnesses the surreal imagery offered by Bozeman's dream and uses it as a metaphor for existence. It describes being in the line from a first-person perspective, and laments how everything is endless and meaningless. Musically it's a thunderous, heavy piece of metalcore than trails away into acoustic fingerpicking and ominous drones for the last 10 seconds, ending the song (and the album it appears on) on a dark, forlorn note.
• A New Era of Corruption was Whitechapel's third album, and their first non-concept album. Instead of a concept, it focuses on very personal lyrics penned by Phil Bozeman. It charted at #43 on the Billboard 200, and was praised for the new thematic direction and increased maturity evident in the songwriting.