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So here's a very quick backstory on this song: It is sung by Vala Glarios, a Corpus captain who serves Parvos Granum and is embarking on a revenge mission against the Tempestarii Ghost Ship. Vala was the sole survivor of an attack from the Tempestarii, an Old War rescue Railjack, on the Lucretia space station. She drifted for days in her exosuit amongst the fragments of her dead crew, dreaming that her "sisters" were singing, leading her to seek revenge against the ship, now lost to the Void Storms. That's why the song has such a sea shanty vibe to it since technically the Railjacks are ships that sail the sea of stars and the Tempestari was kind of a ghost ship in a way since it was piloted by Sevagoth, a Warframe that can project and control it's own shadow. Basically the Tempestari was a rescue Railjack that was lost during a VOid Storm. Sevagoth commanded it's shadow to continue piloting the ship and continue it's rescue mission, effectively making it a ghost ship. After the quest, Vala is banished to the void, is rescued by Parvos and is put in charge of the Sisters Of Parvos who then become your news rivals much like the Grineer Liches 5:10 I believe this refers to how profit oriented the Corpus are. They WORSHIP profit itself so if you don't make a living, as in if you don't do deal and make money, there will be hell to pay, as in you're dead.
Not entirely sure how much "Sleeping in the Cold below" is inspired by "Sugar in the Hold" (an actual shanty/work song) but they have a very similar chorus/call and response.
@@BulletSponge71436 Oh come on, don't think so little of Marco, I tried to make it as easy to understand as possible so that even people with no in game lore knowledge can understand it.
I love that Digital Extremes just made an entire separate section in the quest just so you can enjoy this song while fighting some corpus. You couldn't even properly die so it was entirely possible to just sit there and vibe to the shanty.
It was kinda meant to represent a dream like telling of the shadow protecting you from the corpus boarding party while you are knocked out hence why when you wake up there’s bodies everywhere
I personally wish the fight occurred aboard the Tempestarii so it felt like you were actually repelling boarders for that fight instead of being somewhere random in the void.
3:55 A Granum Crown is a form of Currency that the Corpus treasure, but it's also a vital component in plant photosynthesis (which looks like a stack of coins inside the chloroplast) and is an ancient latin term for grain (so like, a granum crown could be the golden tops of wheat) so it could be interpreted as a double entendre of bury me under stacks of money and also bury me beneath the fields...
It also alludes to the tradition of burying the dead with coins, sometimes on the eyes, so they could pay for the passage to the after life. I like the idea of the Corpus being so profit driven, that the highest respect someone can get, is being buried with the symbol of Profit in Riches.
@@Aoenias She also sings about "The man on high with a devil in his eye and a golden hand" Obviously being Parvos and says "He can hit you, he can hold you, he can kick you or console you when you're sleeping in the cold below" and as they worship money and him, I feel much like paying the ferryman, they're paying tribute to Parvos in the afterlife for a favourable afterlife
“Cold Below” here would be a poetic reference to frozen ice in space. “Sleeping in the cold below” is a reference to frozen bodies floating through space outside the ship.
It could be that. But it also has been confirmed by the writer that "sleeping in the cold below" is an old saying from before Void travel even existed and the crew would go into cryosleep for long voyages. The saying transformed over time to mean death/the void.
It has a double meaning. There's the harsh coldness of space, of course, but there's also 'a sailor's death' from maritime culture here on Earth. One good example I can give for the latter is The Edmund Fitzgerald. On her final voyage, she sank in a gale. Where she sank (Lake Superior) just happens to have the right conditions to prevent decomposition, meaning the crew are physically still there with the ship. They are, if you will, 'sleeping in the cold below'. Some degenerate schmuck found the crew on one of his thieving runs to the Fitz and offered to bring 'em up to the surface for what he calls a 'proper burial', proving that said schmuck has no business anywhere near marine environments. Instead, the families of the sailors petitioned Canada to make the site an official grave to prevent the thief from ever returning to disturb the resting crew. The only thing left to ask for is the bell that stain on humanity stole for his museum of other stolen objects.
Cold below could also be a metaphor for the deep sea since the whole song is inspired by maritime works songs and draws comparisons between in game space travel and historical sea faring
This song is deeply rooted in the tradition of Newfoundland folk music. The composers, Kieth Power and Alan Doyle (of Great Big Sea) and the lead singer, Damhnait Doyle, are well known Newfoundland musicians. Even though the lyrical themes have been translated into a science fiction setting, it still carries a very strong tradition of Newfoundland work music with it. Sailing the fishing ships in the North Atlantic was an extremely dangerous occupation in pre-industrial times (and is still fairly risky even today). The waters off the coast of Newfoundland are extremely cold and unforgiving. Even in the height of summer, a sailor who went overboard could catch of hypothermia and drown within minutes of hitting the water. Many Newfoundland fishermen never learned how to swim because of this. The famed Newfoundland dog was bred as a salt-water retriever, partly to rescue sailors who fell into the cold North Atlantic, and as a result, those dogs have webbed feet and thick, waterproof coats to protect them from the frigid waters. Even though the phrase "Sleeping in the Cold Below" was coined for this song (as far as I can tell), it definitely resonates with Newfoundlanders. Historically, we have lost many a sailor to the black, frigid depths of the Atlantic.
I love when games use songs to build their world. With "Sleeping In The Cold Below" it establishes that in the world of Warframe, the Corpus and those with connections to them like the Solaris have a culture of work songs. Reminds me of the function similar to the in-universe Port Sulphur Band from *Hunt: Showdown* where their songs are written from having experienced the events of the game. Pretty effective at building atmosphere for an extraction shooter.
If you know a little about media analysis, you might have heard of the rule of three: establish, reinforce, subvert. Sleeping in the Cold Below isn't just establishing that the Corpus use work songs, it's reinforcing this point after We All Lift Together established it earlier. This means that when For Narmer happens later on - subverting the expectation of another work song and giving us a foreboding quasi-religious chant instead - it hits even harder.
@@TehCakeIzALie1 For Narmer reminds us that we weren't just defeated, we Lost. There is no option B, no second chance. It takes the Man in the Wall cheating to make an option C.
There's a few notes for context: 1: This is of course a sort of space maritime song and therefore it bears noting how interstellar travel works in Warframe. In essence, it works in a way simular to hyperspace from Star Wars or the Warp from Warhammer 40k. You enter a different dimension or plane of existence in which distances do not correspond to real space in order to take shortcuts. In Warframe, that dimension is called the Void and it's both a source of unimaginable power and dread. Navigation in the Void is extremely difficult, and most ships use so-called Solar Rails in order to traverse the void, a sort of established road inbetween stars that allows normal ships to enter the void and travel along the rail in order to not lose its path. This is also referenced in the last verse ("Today we sail on the solar rail for there's much we just don't know...") 2: The reason why this is important is that there's a special type of ship, called a Railjack. These were comparatively small warships that had their own void drive and were capable of independent interstellar travel, making them incredibly flexible and incredibly terrifying for all those who are faced off against them. Imagine being limited to following roads when someone who wants to kill you can just go literally anywhere, show up without a warning from the underbrush and blow up your car. 3: The character who sings this song, Vala Glarios, who is a member of the Corpus faction, has had a traumatizing experience against a Railjack type ship once. She was working on the outside of a space station in an exosuit when the station itself was destroyed by an enemy Railjack, leaving her to drift in empty space for days, surrounded only by the frozen remains of all her comrades (her "Sisters") who weren't fortunate enough to be wearing space-proof equipment when the station got blasted. This has left her mentally scarred, ridden with survivors guilt and and a burning desire to find and destroy the Railjack responsible. This is complicated by the fact that the ship in question, the Tempestarii has essentially gone rouge after the end of the war, trying to complete it's final task, and is now by all accounts a ghost ship. 4: The Man on High mentioned in one of the verses is Parvos Granum, the legendary founder of the Corpus faction. The golden hand is literal in this case, as he started off his entire enterprise through a theft for which he was punished by having his hand cut off, and which he later replaced with a golden prosthethis. After building the Corpus into a faction the power of influence of which could even compete with the Empire of the immortal Orokin, he was attacked by his rivals and disappeared, long presumed dead. It is later revealed that Granum managed to survive in a sort of temporal pocket in the Void. Shortly before the events of the quest in which this song plays, that temporal bubble is partially breached, and Granum starts trying to re-establish his influence within the Corpus. At the end of the quest, Vala Glarios is banished into the Void by a special weapon aboard the Tempestarii and ends up in the same pocket as Granum who, respecting her obsessive determination, makes her his second in command for his future operations.
Sort of right on (1), but also not. Solar Rails and Void Travel are two separate things. Void Travel requires a Void Reliquary Drive and was incredibly experimental, their only use was in the Zarriman Ten-0 (which was a disaster) and the Railjacks (which was originally used by the Tenno during the Old War). Solar Rails are more like a teleporter, they use the power of the Void to teleport a ship from one Solar Rail to another. The ships don't enter the Void itself, they can't, they don't have Void Shielding. What happens if you don't have Void Shielding? Please refer to Exhibit A: The Zarriman Ten-0 and what happened to all the Adults on board when the Void Shield failed during the Void Jump from Saturn.
I love the lore meaning behind this song. The ending being a somber remembrance for the character this song represents remembering her sisters who all died at the hands of a warframe.
For context (not necessary, but I love WF's lore): The 'man on high' is Parvos Granum, the founder of their religion who lived long ago. So it's a religious space shanty of sorts, I guess.
This song's last verse, with the strings alone is some of the rawest emotion Warframe brings out sometimes. I love this piece to bits as it's the only time I felt bad for the bad guys. To be fair, pirate shanties are symbolic of...well...pirates. Their reputation is obvious, but it's also the everyman, the dock-worker that's brought out in the song. P.S. Please check out the 'Lies of P' soundtrack, especially the piece called "Why". It's a wonderful waltz piece that has a lot of storytelling behind it
Basically this song is a captain's mental delusion of her "sisters" singing as she's floating through a cloud of her shattered star ship and the corpses of her crew. She kinda turns into captain Ahab but like futuristic space Ahab.
I love the call and response nature of shanties. The shanty man in this case being the captain singing to her crew but also her dead sisters as they engage on their revenge quest is such a nice touch. It livens up a quest that would otherwise be almost forgettable.
So from what i understand, the song basically details the life and society of the corpus from how Vala (female singer) sees it. “So it’s into the void now me girls and me boys” The void is a sort of second dimension in the world of warframe, and i believe its meant to be a parallel to starting life, she describes the initial audience as girls and boys, young children who are about to start their lives as adults “From mother’s hand we go” is the representation of growing up, your parents guide you mostly throughout your years until adulthood, where you have to decide things for yourself “We’ll be sailing to the sun till the voyage is done” Is Vala’s way of seeing life and death, i believe the sun is meant to represent another day, so in a way, Vala is saying that she’ll live everyday until she dies accepting her life is complete The reason why vala during the chorus says “sisters below below we’re going where the winds don’t blow” is because the audience is supposed to be the sisters of Parvos, her sisters, only they died, and vala didn’t, its her way of saying “ill meet you again in the afterlife” “Our sailing ship’s for the hard and quick, we roll our load and go, theres a living to be made or theres hell to pay” Is a way Vala describes corpus society, life is hard and difficult and for the corpus, its either you die for profit or die working to pay off debts “Yes we’re bound down to the deep, and soon we’ll all be sleeping in the cold cold below” is a metaphor to say we will all die one day and Vala knows that, the cold below is essentially just death “Theres a man on high with a devil in his eye with a golden hand im told” is describing Parvos before she met him, parvos was a leader of the corpus with a literal golden hand, and a heartless attitude towards fellow corpus, hence why he is a “man on high,” he is a higher power above Vala and her sisters “It can hurt you, it can hold you, he can kick you or console you” also describes Parvos’s view on his sisters, the player makes the sisters of parvos a thing, so when the player doesnt make a corpus member a “sister”, Parvos rejects and insults them, but if the player does make them a sister, he welcomes them with open arms and helps them “Oh sisters you, so wise and true, when its my time to go, wont you lay me down under granum crowns” Is Vala calling to her dead sisters, asking if they’d accept her when she dies, being buried with granum crowns are both a way to prove she died with a prosperous life (as money is absolute value to corpus) and a way to signify Vala is a sister of parvos “Today we sail on the solar rails, for theres much we just dont know, so farewell with a kiss, then it’s vast for the mist” Is Vala’s view of life itself, she explores her world but doesnt know everything about it, so she decides to accept that and live life when it approaches, hence the mist Yeah if you read this far, thank you, this song is really beautiful and honestly a vibe. Love the work Marco!
"There's a living to be made or there will be hell to pay" as I understand it is kinda like a take on 'If I don't do this then things will be worse if I don't' which if you look at it is a play on your take on how 'sleeping in the cold below' is inevitable so sail as far as you can, and work as hard as you can just to make things a little better. After all we are all bound down to the deep and we all will be sleeping in the cold below. (WARFRAME LORE BELOW) The singer is lamenting on how everyone in her crew died and she was left in her space suit floating for who knows how long among the corpses of her sisters (fellow workers) after the Tenno destroyed the space station she was working on because her boss pissed off the Orokin/Tenno. She had nothing to do with the conflict but she had no choice but to work as hard as possible despite knowing that a Tenno could roll through and destroy everything. It's a common theme in Warframe that the Tenno were both bringers of death and well as freedom (see the Leverian in game for proof). Their boss Parvos Granum (the reason why there is a currency called Granum Crowns) was a major economic tyrant who rubbed certain high powered people the wrong way which is why the Corpus themselves hate the Tenno. It's literally a workers song of just some woman who got caught in the crossfire of a conflict she had no say in, she like many others just needed the work otherwise who could provide even with the threat of the Tenno (the walking WMD's that they are) could roll in at any moment. Also the corpus are above not extortion and slave labor to get what they need.
I was working in an exosuit when the Tempestarii destroyed Lucretia Platform. I drifted for days among the frozen fragments of my crew. My Sisters. I dreamed their dead, gaping mouths were singing with me yet.
I feel these two games aren't even that comparable between each other aside from being sci-fi looter shooters. They play vastly different and have very different business models and overall designs. Destiny MOST DEFINITELY shouldn't be tagged as a free-to-play, rather a free-to-try, that much I will say. Warframe gives you basically the entire game, even cosmetics if you just do some trading and farming. Personally I'm into both games, around 2k hours in each, but destiny is definitely the game that turns away more players with its model. The music in both games though? Immaculate, wonderful, incredible even.
Haven't stopped thinking of this song since it came out it's just so good! Also coincidentally released around the time "sea shanties" were popular online iirc! There was a panel with the lyricist (again, iirc) during a past dev event or tennocon where he talked some more about the lyrics - for the "sleeping in the cold below" line, the lore of it was that it started out as being literal - because the crew members would go into cryo-sleep below deck as part of space travel. But over time in the world, the lyric evolved to take on a more metaphorical meaning - of death. It's really cool hearing about how these lyrics are written with this kind of "lore history" in mind too, on top of sounding so rad
Calling it a sea shanty is pretty dang accurate, as in the game, it’s being sung by a lone space pirate on her final voyage, hearing the chorus of her fallen sisters as she sings the song one last time, and near the end, she accepts her fate when she sings alone, before the final chorus.
I remember recommending this song a while back in a community post for a music livestream but it didn't get picked, so I'm very happy that it's being shown now!
This song really gets alot of meaning to it when you play the game and the story with the quest this song is from, and it gives me goosebumps everytime. Also when you jumped in a while in the song and sang with it it gave it another edge that made it even better in my opinion :)
for myself, i like to imagine each verse to have been written at different points in her life. verse one is about escaping a colony to enter the corpus fleet, they're sleeping in the cargo hold as stowaways. verse two is the transition from stowaway to press ganged crew member, sleeping in the crewman racks until called upon. verse three is being inducted into the corpus, learning about the mythical parvos granum, founder of the corpus religion. verse four is an older and wiser woman understanding the end is coming, but still following the corpus doctrine of profit. desiring to take their money with them to the afterlife. and finally the last verse was written when she was rescued from the wreckage of lucrecia station, leaving behind who she was and the sisters who died there filled with grief and a desire for vengence.
I think it has context even beyond the in game context as others have pointed out regarding Vala Glarios. From the comfort and security of our homes we are all thrust into an adult world where we have to earn our living. In the context of Warframe the "man on high with with the devil in his eye and a golden hand" is Parvos Granum, but you can just as easily just say this is a stand in for cruel gilded capitalism. The system of capital can give you all manners of comforts, but it can also tax you into the streets. "It can kick you or console you." But either way at the end we'll all die because death or capital come after us all then we'll be "sleeping in the cold below." 6 feet underground, Davy Jones locker, or the empty void of space, whichever takes your fancy. Not only is she saying that the fight to survive goes on till we all die, but she's singing to and with her sisters who have already past. The one that is missing context is being buried under granum crowns, as the singer here is referring to a type of premium currency in the universe. She seems to suggest that the only comfort you can have in death is if you were wealthy, as wealth is the only thing society seems to care about. This is a song about the pain of living in a cruel capital system meant to help console those who feel grief over what the system takes from them. Their family and friends and their eventually their lives.
The way I read it, the lyrics are very fatalistic. The cold below is a nautical metaphor applied to spaceships. It represents the ocean deep below your ship. Sleeping in the cold below is death. It's a burial at sea or drowning when your ship sinks. The core idea is that the job is very very dangerous, that you'll probably die. That if you do this job for long enough you will die. But you do it anyway, you leave the safety of home for the danger of a ship for a chance to maybe make a living. Or die trying. Vala Glarios herself a very fatalistic character, a sort of Ahab who watched her sisters die and is now driven by her grief and trauma to seek revenge against a foe she knows will destroy her. So this fatalistic shanty fits her state of mind.
Call of the Tempestarii was one of my favorite missions from the reworked railjack to sevagoth to this song. Sevagoth is still one of my favorite frames and this song holds a special place in my heart on warfame.
The general vibe of the song, especially the final solo verse, always struck me as having the same sort of tone as "Ave Imperator, morituri te salutant" ("Hail Emperor, those who are about to die salute you"). The spectre of death seems unavoidable given that the act of sailing is, in this context, so dangerous. There is a defiance in the singer's voice as she seems to address her crew. "Yes", she seems to say "we're going somewhere we're almost certainly not coming back from, so say goodbye to those you love ('with a kiss') and then it's into that danger we go." It is also relevant context to know that the captain is embarking on a voyage of revenge...at 'sea'... against an entity which they feel wronged them... which is a famous enough literary trope that we the audience know that such a task is nigh certainly going to result in the destruction of the ship and death of the captain at the very least, and the song suggests that the Captain is also at least a little aware that what they're doing is practically a suicide mission. Love this song, love this game. Fight well Tenno :)
If I remember the breakdown of this song by DE, the "Cold Below" was basically a hibernation chamber meant for long trips, it was literally a "Cold Below" that they were subjected to before the void was found, as the only way to travel between planets was to be frozen until the end of the trip, then you'd unfreeze and start working. There was no returning home either, because you'd basically be displaced from your family and friends. However there is a fact that they haven't used such a system, so the song has lost parts of it's meaning.
Yay more Warframe, Glarios and the sisters are some of the coolest bunch alongside Parvos. Really hoping there'll be more story with him, they're really interesting characters.
Onstly the song is part of a cutseen that happens in the song you wold have better understanding after see the caption story she tells prior to the song
For some context, the update tied to this song was released in early 2022, when sea shanties got popular out of nowhere. Just might explain why it sounds the way it does
This song is a recurring joke in my friend group. Anytime we hear the word "below," our minds instantly go to this song and sometimes one of my friends just start singing the line "SISTEEEEERRRRSSS BELOW BELOW."
Voiceplay released an acapella cover of Sleeping in the Cold Below about a month ago. I really like it. I would recommend it to you for reaction and analysis. It might be interesting to compare and contrast it to the original.
I have more hours then i care to admit at times in games and i love impactful music that make you feel something in games... there are good osts and then there is warframes ost. No other games come close imo to how deep these osts make a player feel.
On the meaning of Folk Songs, it's worth noting - This is a very corperatized folk song. It's sung by a high-ranking corporate drone lamenting the loss of her coworkers to a tragedy, so it feels less like a work song, it's more akin to a ballad born of anger and sorrow than anything else, celebrating the titular Sisters.
I have a suggestion. Would you like to react to a cover of Sleeping in the Cold Below from Warframe by Voiceplay? It is a capella. On their channel you can find covers of quite a variety of music, including music from popular games such as Portal ( Still Alive), Imagine Dragons ( Warriors ), Halo (Main Theme), Genshin Impact ( Main Theme) - Genshin Impact Concert 2021, Enemy - Imagine Dragons (Arcane League Of Legends). Voiceplay is an incredible rabbit hole.
"a man on high with the devil in his eye" is clearly a business owner - avarice being the root of all evil, a business owner has 'the devil in his eye'.
I've not played it, but my understanding is that when you're on a spaceship, the cold below would refer to the vacuum of space, it could be somthing else though
To fully understand the song one must know how Corpus function in their society and the knowledge Parvos Granum left, Sisters of Parvos are part of it and the wreck of Sevagoth
The more I think about it, since Marco plays Warframe, if he doesn't use Grendel on the regular, I'm going to be intensely disappointed. You CANNOT play Warframe and have "Meatball" in your name without playing THE mighty meatball frame!
Note that I don't play Warframe so the cold below could be a literal place, but imo it's the literal void of space, hence the "where the winds don't blow" part. So basically she's saying she's going to eventually die in space or something similar, I think.
I would love if you did a breakdown of fertile rondo from Bayonetta 3 the Japanese version has less editing on the vocals imo. I think you have such detailed explanations and examples and I can't think of another person to go over the song.
Love this one. Also nothing to do with anything but I have been playing it and reminded of it. 40k Chaos Gate Demon hunters has a cool ost if you want yet more 40k music.
Living to be made, or it's a Hell to pay When you sleeping in the cold below - it's about where are you going after Death - To Paradise, or to Hell. In Paradise you living your best moments all the time, perfect live to be made. Or - you pay to hell his price with suffering all bad what happens to you. About "Man on hight" It's about CORPUS founder - Parvos Granum. For CORPUS he is a messiah, suprime leader and onreacheble person. And all personal of CORPUS truing to turn his attention on them personaly to be blessed by him. And this verb about him - is a thout about make her self value to him and have a little portion of respect from him as a sign of his good will. That is best she can imagine from person like him.
From all the "sung" music from Warframe, this is the most catchy after "We All Lift Together". Banger song! Still love the game-customized track "Wings of War (LIGHT)" and "Rapid Adaptation" from the same game
!!!!! Thanks Marco. :D well, that certainly explains why you put it off. But seems it's been itchin on you too if you came and did the react now. ;) All the other comments got you plenty covered. so I'll just chill.
Hello @MarcoMeatball, there’s an old game that has a very few Melodie’s that I think you may like, they’re somewhat short, the name of the game is “Total Annihilation” and I would like to recommend you the | -07- Ambush in the Passage |
some people talk abaut this song and say many good thinks but you my think what is a solar rail. is a system of stations around planets they use somting call solar rail to trwo ships into nexst planets in range and is most popular and fast way to travle except void who is dangerus and need a relics drive who is rare.
Hey there back with more request's on ultrakill songs, so i found an ultrakill song named "he is the light in my darkness" its short but let me tell you its amazing. And the theres a fan made ultrakill ost called "forgotten son" i haven decipher what the song wanted to tell so i need your help.
I've been playing Warframe for few years. Sleeping in the Cold Below permanently plays on my orbiter. But still - after hearing it so many times - if i listen to it on its own, the chorus always gives me chills.
You really should listen to some of the hunt showdown soundtrack, some of the main themes make my soul shout. I think rise up dead man and marked for death are really good.
