To me, this song and "Maybe," not coincidentally, both songs by the Ink Spots, are quintessentially Fallout songs. Something about the leisurely-paced trotting rhythm of the guitars lends itself to casually walking around whatever wasteland you find yourself in. The title of the song also feels appropriate to how I often played Fallout 4, just minding my own business walking from one end of the Commonwealth to the other, likely while overencumbered, and find myself fired upon by a half dozen raiders, which then forces me to kill nearly two dozen people as half way through the firefight I am also beset upon by more raiders in hiding, a group of Super Mutants in the building next door, and a roaming group of robots hellbent on saving the people of the Commonwealth the only way they've calculated how. I just wanted to deconstruct a literal half-shit-ton of scrap, and I end up committing my third mass-murder-shooting of the day.
Interestingly, I actually rarely heard this song while playing Fallout 4 since I only found myself listening to Diamond City Radio and Radio Freedom a couple of times, instead opting for the score composed by Inon Zur instead. Even then, I can't help but think of Fallout whenever this song crops up.
~JWfW/JDub/The Faceplantman/Jaconian
And The World Has Turned Around Again
*This song was included on "Featured Selections from the Fallout 3 Soundtrack," released by Bethesda in 2008. It was also used in Fallout 76 and the Fallout Amazon series.
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