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Under Her Watchful Eye (We Turn Our Backs)

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Under Her Watchful Eye (We Turn Our Backs) --- 2024-09-06

Single released on Bandcamp page. In the late summer of 2004 Uprising would record what would end up being their final 4 song session. This session would receive a very rough mix in '04 and even though all 4 songs would be released on the internet through Uprising's now-defunct website, these four songs never saw an "official" release. For years, it was assumed that the original track files from the session were lost to the sands of time. But in 2022 Nate, Uprising's singer, discovered a bunch of Uprising records and songs in storage and in there were 4 burned CD's that had the original session files. After successfully recovering the track files Nate went to work giving them a proper mix Under Her Watchful Eye (We Turn Our Backs) is a song about humanity's continuing war on nature. The lyrics personify Mother Earth and her storms as one of the few methods of defense our planet has left to deploy. It questions the need for constant expansion at the behest of capitalism. And it asks what we loose when we sacrifice our home for commodity and profit. Sonically, this song is a big love-letter to Anti-Product, one of, if not the most, influential band on Uprising's sound and ideals. The theme of the song is an homage to "War on Nature", the layered vocals is an homage to "Warfair?" and the opening, which was a big departure for us, was intended to build like the opening of "It Festers In Their Hearts". The name of the song is a reference to His Hero Is Gone's "Under Watchful Eyes".