Opera Singer Listens to This is What You Are (Warframe OST)

I have loved this track for so long, it fills me with this visceral sense of purpose and love every time I listen to it and it genuinely brings me to tears, it is so mesmerizingly beautiful. It sounds like what I think diving into a purpose feels like. Truly remarkable.

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Credits:
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Composers: Keith Power/George Spanos
Publisher: Digital Extremes
Designers: Joey Adey, Jonathan Gogul, Ben Edney, Mitch Gladney
Developers: Digital Extremes, Panic Button Games

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[knightmare]

The fact that he said "You wake up and then you know who you are, " without knowing about The Second Dream quest....

[mitchhaelann]

As a warframe player, you're missing an essential element of the song: Plurality. The song is a definition of who and what the Tenno are, and that's expressed in the phases of the song.

Nothingness.
One single solitary note, crying out in the void.
Crying children, bent and fractured.
Broken children joining together, lifting their voices in a chorus.
A chorus of pain growing into strength, working together, becoming more.
A strong chorus of warriors crying out not in pain, but in defiance of their lot in life.
A war anthem.
A single voice, still hurting, but knowing what they are.

This is essentially the story of Tenno, your characters in Warframe. In song. Without words. Without lyrics.

I'm reminded of an experiment Marvel Comics did years ago. The 'Nuff Said line. For one month, none of their major comic titles like Spider-Man or X-Men had any spoken words printed in them. No speech, no thought bubbles, no text. Just pictures. And they had to convey the entire story, without words. Each one was a masterpiece of storytelling, too. This song does something similar, telling a story that would shame most epic poems, without a single coherent word spoken.

Whomever is in charge of the music for Warframe should be tiling their bathroom with Grammy trophies.

[BeardGrizzly]

Now "We All Lift Together" and "Sleeping in the Cold Below." GO.
Warframe has a stellar soundtrack. And I play this game FAR too often anymore.
The man in the wall can't hurt you, Tenno.

[hypersectomy]

Antique instrumentation. Youth choir. Single female lead. Answer and call. Naga drums. Kiai shouts. Ison drone. Fading off as if a lullaby into sleep. This is backstory as music.

[matthewrocheleau]

The first part is the Lotus a.k.a "Space Mother" calling out to her children. The childlike choir is the children, the Tenno, responding to her call and waking up. The percussion part is the tenno performing their sacred duty to keep the peace and fight. The electronic eastern feel is due to them being literal futuristic space ninjas. Btw, this is one of my top 10 favorite music pieces as well.

[TheTanmoy]

THIS track, out of every piece from Warframe's expansive OST, is what defines the game the most IMO.
And I know We All Lift Together got way more exposure on the internet, with Sleeping In The Cold Below and For Narmer getting similar response afterwards.
But there's just something so very definitive about the motif here that really makes it Warframe's identity.
The singular vocals being almost Lotus' call to her "children", the almost childlike chorus being the sound of every Tenno's response to the only parent they've known, the swelling harmony afterwards being the release from our dream.
It's everything Warframe was and led up to, and continues being.

[TheGiani]

this was a turning point for warframe
the second dream

[Winterstrife]

I highly recommend another Warframe OST "To Take Away Its Pain".

Made me cry at that time. Really hits hard when you played the story up to that point.

[PiscesAustrinus]

Marco, imagine playing this game already for hundred of hours, you been on this space opera universe for a long time now, you been feed small tibits of lore and information trought the quests and dialogs. You alongside the comunity have theorized, guessed and imagined whats going on in this world. The NPCs have given you little amounts of info, so theres one burning question going all around "who/what you are"...and this song, this quest, this "second dream" its that answer...whe asked..who whe are...and our answer was "this is what you are", and belive me, as a player who has sinked a crazy amount of time on this game i can tell you, the buildup and payback whe got was mindblowing, it changed the landscape of the game completly

[AzurKutsuu]

The Music of Warframe is truly some underrated VGM. I'm so happy to see ya listen to it. The whole OST evokes so much feeling, especially for any veteran players.

[bigneto]

This one was also quite impactfull because of the moment it happened, the second dream, the first proper story quest we had in warframe.

Theses days you can Rush far ahead from this quest, but for early players, all the years of slow background building for this moment made the reveals even more impactfull

[SeanCrosser]

The Tenno leitmotif being AMPLIFIED in this song never fails to lift me up.

This is who you are.

[Nasuradin]

Usually if it sounds eastern, and it sounds kind of like a violin, then its probably an Erhu, a Chinese instrument that can be played to invoke sadness and the sound of sorrowful wailing

[kuronaialtani]

Well now you’ve opened the gates for warframe reactions
May I suggest a double whammy, We All Lift Together and then For Narmer
In that order, the latter *really* compliments the former in theme and presentation

[TheFinalFifty]

This piece is one that makes me cry and tear up, with every listen, no questions asked. What you said about the soul crying out. And the release and freedom, is exactly why this song has been instrumental in helping me heal from trauma of the past year. Thank you for this.

[GeneralGroggy]

I recommend 2 other songs from warframe "we all lift together" and "for narmer" . I also put a lot of time into this game.

[Noctazar]

0:23 These first slow, quiet, gentle sounds is when hundreds of hours of gameplay and the memories I've made flash before my eyes.

[MediAndLemon]

Now imagine having played the Beta for hundreds of hours before they changed the game up and you go the lore reveal with this music.

Still probably my best moment in years of gaming.

[steamfang]

I've been playing warframe since about 2015 and this track specifically means SO MUCH to me. This moment in the game made me cry and this song continues to make me cry

[Slivarito]

I've played Warframe since closed beta and the moment this song happened in the quest it felt like it pierced right through me. Such an incredible track. Happy to see you review it!