{"id":51302,"date":"2026-03-02T15:37:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T15:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=51302"},"modified":"2026-03-02T15:37:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T15:37:13","slug":"fear-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2026\/03\/02\/fear-factory\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear Factory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence]<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental, Guitar, Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums]<\/p>\n<p>[Intro]<br \/>\n[Low Drone, Heartbeat Kick, Distant Reverb Guitar]<br \/>\n[Whispered Vocal]<br \/>\nWho put the fear there?<br \/>\n(Who fed the fuse?)<br \/>\nWho pulled the lever?<br \/>\n(The bejebus\u2026)<\/p>\n<p>[Snare Roll Rising]<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nThey light a matchstick<br \/>\n(Call it the truth)<br \/>\nSell you a nightmare<br \/>\n(As living proof)<\/p>\n<p>Rattle the cage bars<br \/>\n(Shake the news)<br \/>\nWind up the panic<br \/>\n(Tighten the screws)<\/p>\n<p>[Pre-Chorus \u2013 Tight, Minimal Beat]<br \/>\nTurn up the volume<br \/>\n(Drown out the facts)<br \/>\nCircle the wagons<br \/>\n(Ready attack)<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nScared!<br \/>\n(The bejebus)<br \/>\nOut of us!<br \/>\n(Out of us!)<br \/>\nFear in the bloodstream<br \/>\n(Rush and combust)<br \/>\nScared!<br \/>\n(The bejebus)<br \/>\nOut of us!<br \/>\nWho profits most<br \/>\nWhen we mistrust?<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental Break \u2014 Guitar Feedback + Organ Stabs]<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nFlash red headlines<br \/>\n(End of days)<br \/>\nPoint at a scapegoat<br \/>\n(Set ablaze)<\/p>\n<p>March to a rhythm<br \/>\n(Manufactured)<br \/>\nTruth gets fractured<br \/>\n(Fact redacted)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge \u2013 Breakdown]<\/p>\n<p>[Sub Bass Pulse, Sparse Percussion]<br \/>\nAre you just slightly bit\u2026<br \/>\n(Curious?)<br \/>\nWho writes the script when<br \/>\n(We\u2019re furious?)<\/p>\n<p>Deliver us?<br \/>\n(From what we choose?)<br \/>\nOr is the terror<br \/>\n(Just well-used?)<\/p>\n<p>[Angular Guitar Solo \u2014 tense, clipped]<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nScared!<br \/>\n(The bejebus)<br \/>\nOut of us!<br \/>\n(Dared to trust?)<br \/>\nSpin the wheel of<br \/>\n(Fear and dust)<br \/>\nScared!<br \/>\n(The bejebus)<br \/>\nOut of us!<br \/>\nDivide the crowd<br \/>\nAnd watch it rust<\/p>\n<p>[Break \u2013 Snare March, Bass Drive]<br \/>\nOminous\u2026<br \/>\n(Us, us, us)<br \/>\nAnonymous\u2026<br \/>\n(Blame the bus)<br \/>\nSynonymous\u2026<br \/>\n(With power\u2019s lust)<\/p>\n<p>[Final Chorus \u2013 Bigger, Louder]<br \/>\nScared!<br \/>\n(The bejebus)<br \/>\nOut of us!<br \/>\n(Out of us!)<br \/>\nBreak the spell or<br \/>\n(Break to dust)<br \/>\nScared!<br \/>\n(The bejebus)<br \/>\nOut of us!<br \/>\nBeat it back \u2014<br \/>\nOr it beats all of us<\/p>\n<p>[Outro \u2013 Instruments Strip Away]<br \/>\n[Just Bass + Distant Organ]<br \/>\nBejesus\u2026<br \/>\n(Beat it out of us)<br \/>\nAll of us\u2026<br \/>\n(All of us\u2026)<\/p>\n<p>[Single Guitar Harmonic \u2014 Fade]<\/p>\n<p>ABOUT THE SONG<br \/>\nIt was not my intention to uncover what appears to be an international ideological network.<\/p>\n<p>So far, ecofascist patterns have been identified in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., EU member states, Russia, Indonesia, Australia, and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>Exposure carries risk.<\/p>\n<p>Publishing quickly and publicly is not theatrical \u2014 it is strategic documentation. Transparency is protection.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/global_warming\/Fascist-Hunter.html\"><em>The Accidental Fascist Hunter: How a Climate Investigation Uncovered Ecofascist Networks<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>From the album &#8220;<a href=\"\/albums\/Beyond-Belief\/\">Beyond Belief<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence] [Instrumental, Guitar, Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums] [Intro] [Low Drone, Heartbeat Kick, Distant Reverb Guitar] [Whispered Vocal] Who put the fear there? (Who fed the fuse?) Who pulled the lever? (The bejebus\u2026) [Snare Roll Rising] [Verse 1] They light a matchstick (Call it the truth) Sell you a nightmare (As living proof) Rattle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51302"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51324,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51302\/revisions\/51324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}