the_patriot_smack said

epic song  

Yes, very epic, and the one two punch of this and Nothing’s Left might be my favorite thing ICP has ever done.

I’ve recently been listening to it with headphones and playing with equalizer settings to make some of the layered vocals more clear.  There are a lot of layers and hidden background vocals.  I’ve recently discovered that for the last 30ish seconds of the song, someone is singing along with the hook.  I think it’s Violent J, but it’s so smooth that I’m not sure. Back then, J still had a lot of soul and vocal capability, so it could be him.  Also, whoever is singing the main hook has a beautiful layered vocal of “Echo side” in a different octave.  As far as I can tell, it only says “Echo side” on that layer.  I also think that part of it says “Let him go outside, let him go outside” instead of “Echo side.”  I think it might say something like “far beyond my Echo side” but I’m not sure at all.  I recently ordered a really good soundcard for my PC and I’m going to get some good headphones and see if I can decipher it.  A lot of it is only noticeable on headphones by playing with equalizer settings.  

the_patriot_smack said
it brings me way back

underneath the shadows of the other side of time
If there is a hell then there must be a behind
you can take me to the ghetto land move everything and back
take me from the Echoside and never bring me back  

I don’t think he says “ghetto land” although I don’t know what he says there.  And I don’t think it says “move everything and back,” because that doesn’t make sense and also it sounds like he says “don’t bury me in black”