Outro

The closing track from 'Hurry Up, We're Dreaming', 'Outro' builds around a brief lyric that M83 stretches across four minutes of instrumental crescendo. The band sets a single verse – 'I'm the king of my own land / Facing tempests of dust, I'll fight until the end' – against swelling synthesisers and percussion, the words functioning less as narrative than as a mantra of defiance. The track has accumulated hundreds of millions of streams on Spotify since the album's 2011 release, its patient escalation lending itself to extended fan-made versions that stretch the piece well beyond its original runtime. The arrangement forgoes verse-chorus structure entirely, committing instead to a single emotional arc that resolves only in its final moments.