Meet Your Master (Instrumental)
Meet Your Master: The Faint
"Meet Your Master" is the eleventh track on the 2007 release Year Zero.
Theories
This song could be either from a government perspective, directed to the people, or from a resistance perspective directed to the government. The latter theory seems more apt, given the part of the lyrics quoted at Another Version Of The Truth. The lyrics might echo the commands of a guerrilla resistance group to a kidnapped bureaucrat (a la the kidnapping of Clive Owen's protagonist in Children of Men, or the similar scene in Thank You for Smoking).
Another theory is that these are the words of, or general feeling given by an encounter with The Presence.
Appearances
The lyrics for this song appear on the "Another Version of the Truth" message board posted by Che2. He says "didn't you get the memo?" Post #04
Halos
- Year Zero
- Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D
Versions
Meet Your Master
This is the original album version. It begins with complex and layered programmed drums, before a heavily glitched guitar part enters. The verse has a distorted bass guitar, and every vocal line of each verse has the first note being sung in falsetto. Bendy guitar chords enter as the verse moves along. The chorus has the distorted bass guitar up front in the mix, the glitchy guitar returns, and it ends with a multi-layered vocal on the "meet your master" line. The same multi-layered vocal approach is used on the second chorus. The breakdown features a high-pitched guitar figure with a string sample underneath. The outro finishes the same way the track began.
Meet Your Master (Instrumental)
Running Time: 4:13
This unmastered vocal-less mix was released by Trent Reznor through his remix.nin.com account.
Meet Your Master: The Faint
Running Time: 3:35
This song is on Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D. The vocals have some distortion in them and are heard over an electronic beat. It reminiscent of The Orb's remix of "The Perfect Drug." The instrumentation is slightly different, without any of the guitar elements heard in the original.
Song Credits
- Remix by The Faint
Live
"Meet Your Master" made its live debut at the Calgary, Alberta, show on July 29, 2008, and was only played twice more on the Lights In The Sky Tour. It also made rare appearances on the Wave Goodbye Tour.
Lyrics
Bow down in position
Against the polished steel
This is something different
You'll like the way this feels
No time for asking questions
No time for wondering
We've heard enough from you now
We've heard everything
We're going to play a new game
You'll put on this blindfold
You'll do what we tell you
You'll do as you're told
Used to be the leader
Now comes the time to serve
Maybe we show some mercy
Maybe you get what you deserve
Count down to the end
Gotta make it come faster faster
Right around the bend
Is a coming disaster
Count down to the end
And we're headed there faster
Come on down my friend
It's time to meet your master
You've left quite a mess here
Under your stewardship
You thought you'd figured it out but
You'll learn your place in this
Might take some convincing
For you to see the truth
There are so many things
We've got in store for you
Count down to the end
Gotta make it come faster faster
Right around the bend
Is a coming disaster
Count down to the end
And we're headed there faster faster
Come on down my friend
It's time to meet your master
The following lyric is repeated to the end of the song:
Come on down (hey, comin' round the bend)
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