King Crimson - Facts Of Life

FACTS OF LIFE

Six billion ants crawling on a plate
Six billion ants crawling on a plate
None of them give back as much as they take
Six billion ants crawling on a plate

Doesn't mean you should just because you can
It doesn't mean you should just because you can
Like Abraham and Ishmael fighting over sand
It doesn't mean you should just because you can

That is a fact of life
That is a fact of life

Now some of us build and some of us teach
Some of us build, some of us teach
And some of us kill what some of us eat

That is a fact of life
That is a fact of life

Nobody knows what happens when you die
Nobody knows what happens when you die
Believe what you want, it doesn't mean you're right

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Robert Fripp: Guitar
Adrian Belew: Guitar and Vocals
Trey Gunn: Warr guitar, fretless Warr guitar
Pat Mastelotto: Traps and Buttons

Music by King Crimson, Words by Adrian Belew.

Recorded & Engineered by Machine at The Tracking Room, Studio Belew and Pat's Garage.

Additional engineering: Jeff Juliano
Additional programming: Machine

Mixed by Machine, at the Mixing Room, Nashville; remixing at The Shop, Hoboken, NJ.
Produced by King Crimson & Machine.
Haiku Voice recorded at Studio Belew by Ken Latchney.
Voice source on Elektrik: Tim Faulkner.

“The Power To Believe: Coda” produced by The Vicar and Robert Fripp.
Soundscape recorded in live performance at Newlyn Church, Cornwall, on December 7, 1997.

Tone Probe production mastering (compilation, sequencing, editing) by David Singleton & Robert Fripp at DGM SoundWorld on behalf of King Crimson.

Cover artwork from a painting by P.J.Crook.
Photograph by Paul Brown.
Package Art & Design by Hugh O’Donnell.

Robert Fripp plays Fernandes and 48th Street Guitars.
Trey Gunn’s touch guitars are made exclusively by Mark Warr of Warr Guitars.
Trey's rack was built by Matt Hill of Smallmaker Music.

And thanks to:
Paiste, M-Audio, Drum Workshop, Vic Firth, Evans, Bill Saragosa, PDV, Jeff Kazen, Bill Munyon for additional sound design, Thunderbird, Drum Paradise, Jeff Duke, Con+Noe, Ed Renolds, Jeff Ocheltree, Euphonic Audio, Line 6, SWR, Raven Labs, Charlie Hewitt, Adrian Molloy and Martha Belew.

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[PrimitiveInTheExtreme]

Powerful and massive song. 5 perfect minutes.

[lordofglencoe]

Start the day with this song and you are sure to keep it in your mind all this day !

[caiosoares]

I always misheard Adrian say "Six Billionaires Crawling On A Plane" instead of "Six Billion Ants Crawling On A Plate".

[matejtaus]

This feels really like 2000s or 2010s megadeth. Love this track.

[HannekeErnst-Jan]

Je komt bijna oren tekort om dit alles te horen. Jammer dat het zo lang geleden is, dat de band dus wat nieuws heeft uitgebracht...

[riceparadox]

it's cool that they were able to get famous animated character rick sanchez to do vocals on this song

[schizoidman]

I fkn Love this band! I think they are the best band in the World! Period!!!

[zebonaut]

This drum fill at 3:15 with the distorted kick makes me cream my pants multiple times again and again .
It can be so easy.😇
😅🤘🏼

[sherry-annsasmellyshrew]

Anyone Get Reminded of VROOM And VROOM VROOM at The 3:22 Mark?

[lastofvandals.proximetoext]

Is amazing that this song sounds no like the Thrak of 2000 but like the 2000 version of Angel Rat (91, Voivod).

[arekhautaluoma]

This is if Metallica and Lou Reed actually made a good song and had more talent.

[horriblepizza]

So the solo at 3:20 is Belew triggering piano roll with his guitar right?

[clubninja]

Snake's soul hovers here.
(Snake, alias Denis Belanger, vocalist of Voivod, R.I.P.)

[ktv]

Angry Chair by Alice in Chains vibes on this one...

[DelicateTask]

On a PLATE? Robert Fripp flat earther confirmed.

[Zappo]

More metal than those "nu metal" crappy bands of the late 90s/early 00s. Belew more talented songwriter as well.

[auswitch]

Seis mil millones de hormigas arrastrándose en un plato
Seis millones de hormigas arrastrándose en un plato
Ninguno de ellos devuelve tanto como toma
Seis mil millones de hormigas arrastrándose en un plato

No significa que debas solo porque puedes
No significa que debas solo porque puedes
Como Abraham e Ismael peleándose por arena
No significa que debas solo porque puedes
Eso es un hecho de la vida
Eso es un hecho de la vida

Ahora algunos de nosotros construimos y algunos de nosotros enseñamos
Algunos de nosotros construimos, algunos de nosotros enseñamos
Y algunos de nosotros matamos
Lo que algunos de nosotros comemos

Eso es un hecho de la vida
Eso es un hecho de la vida

Nadie sabe lo que pasa cuando mueres
Nadie sabe lo que pasa cuando mueres
Cree lo que quieras, no significa que tengas razón
Eso es un hecho de la vida
Eso es un hecho