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Everything Everything

Cold Reactor

Release date: 1st March 2024

From Mountainhead
Track 3
3:51
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About This Track

'Cold Reactor' by Everything Everything is an alternative track from the album 'Mountainhead', released in 2024. The lyrics cast a grim, almost mythic project of building a mountain by digging a hole, until the scale turns into unintended consequence, with the group blocking out the sun. There’s a tense split between belief in life and terror, and a contrasting faith in “killing time”, while the final images focus on strain and hanging on by the fingertips. The tone is anxious and determined, the kind that makes a grand plan feel dangerously out of control.

"Cold Reactor" is a single by Everything Everything, from the album Mountainhead, released 1st March 2024. The track is 3:51 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 18 articles about Everything Everything.

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Everything Everything

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Lyrics

Cold Reactor

So we built a mountain
By digging an almighty hole
And on our backs, we carried every rock and stone
But now, the hole is deeper
Than anybody ever planned
And we're blocking out the sun

I believe in life and terror
You believe in killing time
By the fingertips, I'm hanging on

Sorry, Satan, but I can't do this evil on my own
I haven't left the house in nearly thirty thousand days
I sent you the image of a little yellow face
To tell you that I'm sad about the emptiness that's all around me

And I can't stop the ringing in your ears
When everything we love becomes a picture of a simulation
It wakes me in the middle of the night
I love you like an atom bomb, but I've become a cold reactor

So dark, the supermarket
Some of us stayed in the pit
Because it felt so comfortable to dwell below
We made the mountain bigger
Though we had forgotten why
It's a dream I'm in with you

In the night, the sword is hanging
Far above the head of man
Can you see the steel is glittering?

Sorry, Satan, but I can't do this evil on my own
I haven't left the house in nearly thirty thousand days
I sent you the image of a little yellow face
To tell you that I'm sad about the emptiness that's all around me

And I can't stop the ringing in your ears
When everything we love becomes a picture of a simulation
It wakes me in the middle of the night
I love you like an atom bomb, but I've become a cold reactor

And maybe I'll go missing in the rain
If God is in the mountain, he won't answer me a single question
Like, "Why does everybody feel the same?"
The slow degeneration and the crying out, "Oh, Lord, have mercy"

Just look into my jet-electric eyes
And see a blue reflection of a world inside a black dimension
It wakes me in the middle of the night
I love you like an atom bomb, but I've become a cold reactor

Now you're gonna see what's underneath
I'm sorry, Satan

Sorry, Satan, and I can't stop the ringing in your ears
When everything we love becomes a picture of a simulation
It wakes me in the middle of the night
I love you like an atom bomb, but I've become a cold reactor

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Track details

From Mountainhead

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Mountainhead
Everything Everything
1st March 2024
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3
Release year
2024
  1. 1Wild Guess
    4:02
  2. 2The End of the Contender
    3:26
  3. 3Cold Reactor
    3:51
  4. 4Buddy, Come Over
    4:05
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    Writer
    Alex Robertshaw, Jeremy Pritchard, Jonathan Higgs, Michael Spearman
    Producer
    Kaines (UK), Tom A.D Fuller
    Bass
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    Drums
    Michael Spearman
    Guitar
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    Alex Robertshaw
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    Alex Robertshaw, Jonathan Higgs
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    Michael Spearman
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    Kit Monteith
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