WE TOLD YOU SO | Back 4 Blood Song Feat. @danbull , @rustage , @Shwabadi & @ConnorQuestMusic

The Ridden have risen. And in Turtle Rock's Back 4 Blood, spiritual successor to the classic Left 4 Dead series, you and your fellow cleaners are tasked with flushing them out and taking them down. You'll face breakers, hags, stingers, tallboys, exploders, ogres and all sorts of other relevant keywords for the survival of the community of Fort Hope and, quite possibly, the world.

Dan and I started talking about a Back 4 Blood collaboration way back when the game was announced! We always knew we'd need an elite team to tackle the hoard so I'm super grateful to Rustage, Shwabadi and Connor Quest for jumping on this project to help out!

Even though we'd been talking about it for ages we didn't actually decide to go ahead and do it until just two weeks ago. So this entire project was incredibly condensed vs the 2-3 months my videos usually take to work on! A huge thank you to everyone who worked so hard to make this happen!

And of course a massive thank you to all of my incredible supporters on Patreon for making videos like this possible!

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Words: @Shwabadi , The Stupendium, @danbull , @rustage , @ConnorQuestMusic
Beat produced by: @PacificProduced
Mix: Dan Bull
Video: The Stupendium, Lizzy CJ, Nick J Henderson

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[TheStupendium]

LYRICS:
SHWABADI
Remember me? I'm that guy
That you laughed at constantly
All the time
‘Cause I'd hoard supplies
Read message boards online
So for the breakout, my safe house was boarded tight
And now look, when it's dark and dire
Can't get online to look up how to start a fire
Don't suck up to me, I know what your heart desires
All my survival rations, fashion, spare parts and pliers
I got the tools that you need
So for expertise, to me they run
So living my life as a hermit had benefits
Now about time that I had me some fun
Pick up a pistol, I'm painting the walls
Bat in my fist and I'm breaking their jaws
The bigger the git, then the harder they fall
Shouldn't brag, but I knew I was right all along
Ha!

STUPENDIUM
They laughed and rolled their eyes
When I hoarded gas and stockpiled supplies
One little societal collapse and wow!
Tell me Dad, who’s laughing now?
‘Cause now we’re ridden with Ridden, well I’ll be bidding good riddance
To the miserable existence I was so sick of living
Used to sit and kill time, now I fill my time killing
All the bitten idiots who didn’t sit up and listen
I don’t miss ‘em, nah, I never was the chatty type
Ain’t saying I’m okay with genocidal parasites
World burns, but it’s spinning and we yearn for rotisserie
That worm turned life to a deadly kind of paradise
Cleaners swapped the mop and the suds
For a Molotov, Glock and some buckets of blood
I was Armageddon prepping, you were up in the club
It’s my turn for fun, you can run but I told you so

CHORUS
As the dead come to call and the darkness descends
At the end of it all’s where the party begins
Yes, we’re sad you were mauled, but it’s hard to pretend
We’re not having a ball as we carve through your friends
So get busy running, but we saw it coming
You thought it was funny when my oven had a gun in
We were stocking up, but you were mocking all the warnings
Now we’re far too busy killing Ridden to be mourning
Yes, it’s awful to gloat, even so we just hope that you know
We told you so
We told you so

RUSTAGE
Used to always tell me I should check my head
‘You’re mental’
Now their bodies have been Left 4 Dead
Not vengeful
But I’m gunning like an FPS
No dental
This ain’t covered by the NHS
Metal to the heart like a pacemaker
I don’t need your stupid money
That’s just waste paper
I’m a game changer
Call this grave dangers
And they waking up 28 Days Later
Ain’t nobody care about their Facebook status
Know that I’ve been practicing with Space Invaders
Village became ridden
I’ve been staying hidden
I can be the one to light them up
‘Cause man, I hate my neighbours
I’ll shoot my zombie mother
Know I wouldn’t even hesitate
I left my room a mess
But now I got no need to decorate
I don’t even care about these ‘better days’
‘Cause now I’m shooting all my shots at tallboys like the NBA

DAN BULL
Oi mate, this is what I’ve been waiting all day for
What my whole life before was foreplay for
I’m a full-flavoured natural-born raver
With a great flair for appalling behaviour
Rule breaker and now there’s no lawmakers
No rules to break, so I break your face bruh
Swap it for a footprint, sole trader
Knocked through the wall like a next door neighbour
I’m bloody sick of all these Joel Havers
I’ll blaze them like a bit of rolled paper
F*ck you, I’m Millwall at away pubs
In the morning you’ll be lucky if you wake up
Cracked skulls in the old days down in Bermondsey
Now the whole world’s on a murder spree
And there’s nothing to do but disturb the peace
But better not splash claret on my Burberry
Oi!

GONNER QUEST
Gonner Quest's turn, here to spit the refrain
Got a real ear worm that'll grip your brain
Put the rave into grave til I burst with gore
So pump the volume, ALERT THE HORDE.

CHORUS
As the dead come to call and the darkness descends
At the end of it all’s where the party begins
Yes, we’re sad you were mauled, but it’s hard to pretend
We’re not having a ball as we carve through your friends
Now I never dreamed I’d become a cleaner
But I hadn’t fathomed a janitor packing heat and
Banishing these parasitic phantoms to the ether
Sanitise the planet as a freaky form of leisure
Yes, it’s awful to gloat, even so we just hope that you know
We told you so
We told you so

[danbull]

oi m8 this is what i've been waiting all day for

[Shwabadi]

Remember me? I'm that guy IN THE BLOODY STUPENDIUM'S VIDEO!!! Thanks for having me ♥

[nemraps]

What do you call a zombie who doesn't joke around?

Dead serious.

[Zero-N]

I like how three out of the four were proper doomsday preppers, and dan bull comes in like, "I was born to crack skulls". He's just been living the rough and tumble life, so he's the only one who adjusted without all that preparation.

[ConnorQuestMusic]

They do say an artist gets more recognition when they die, who knew that’s what it would take for me to get on a Stupendium track, RIP me 🙏🏻 (thanks for having me involved, was so so fun! ☺️)

[SephoneNorth]

Shawbadi’s little grin after blowing Conner’s head off is adorable.

[phantolmao]

Dan Bull's character is a walking Bri'ish meme and honestly that's the most fitting role for his voice in a song like this

[My_initials_are_O.G.cuz_I_am]

_"'Cause now we're ridden with Ridden, well I'll be bidding good riddance."_

This is on par with
_"Burn the incense of our innocence and, in a sense, we thrive."_

[CleverFrenchName]

The worlds been taken woven by zombies, society has fallen and it’s every man for him self

The Stupendium, Dan Bull, Rustage, Shwabadi and Connor: what a perfect opportunity for a rave

[cainothecreator]

1:24 bottom left: "I found an ORANGE pen" had me laughing my ass off.

[sarahdenz]

This may get lost in the sea of comments, but I wanted to tell you that I passed my survsafe management exam today!! Your songs helped me focus while studying and calm down if I got overwhelmed by all the information, so I felt that you should celebrate as well. Thank you for helping on my journey. Even if you really weren't there, you helped more than I could have asked for.

[samuelparchment]

Dang, that beat, and that chorus. It’s just so bopping I almost forget I’m jamming to a song about a zombie apocalypse. Great job, mates!

[flacopwa]

I question if Dans character knows if it's a zombie apocalypse or if he just is happy he just is grateful these people are letting him curb stomp fools.

[Insaneian]

Ian went Insane, did he?

Imagine that. 😏

Great work, y'all!

[ParadoxFree]

What jam! Connor absolutely killed it with his verse!

[FloridaMan]

Man the chorus for this song is perfect

[radioactivecowboy-musiccha]

This channel was so inspiring! As usual this song is outstanding and stupendous!

[_antisocialmedia]

1:38 Nice Kitchen Gun but I got the one with laser sighting for after-dark cleaning

[AAAAAA-]

I just noticed all of the writing on the walls. There's always details I miss in these! My favorite bit of writing I noticed was

*"NO ESCAPE"*
"I escaped!"
"No you didn't, Daryll. You're still here."