'STAND BY ME' (Ki:Theory version) from Fear The Walking Dead soundtrack S03E08

While watching the mid-season finale of Fear The Walking Dead, I heard this weird-sounding tune from the series soundtrack towards the end. At first, it scared the hell out of me. After a few moments, I thought it sounded familiar. I recognized it. It was a remake of an old song, a Ben E. King masterpiece. This industrial rock/electronica version by Ki:Theory is very appropriate for the show. This version is awesome! Wicked!! Horrifying with a tone of sinister despair, yet positive and beautiful all at the same time. The sound itself is a world apart from the original, but the lyrics have been virtually retained. Talk about faith in another! Or a conversation with God.

I love the radio scene on the Abigail yacht: Victor’s talk with Cosmonaut Vashenko is a tragic and hopeless kind. Madison has become a vindictive fighter who believes that “sides don’t matter” (at least for the time being); that survival of many, especially that of her loved ones, is most important at the moment. She has taken a leadership role, but snapped when her son got poisoned along with the others. We all lose ourselves at some point; and we have to live with the consequences of what we’ve done, even in the distant past. I think she actually is the main protagonist of the show; everyone else is just support. Travis truly did love very strong, fierce women.

Make no mistake about it, STRONG is different from RUDE. Because there are those people who think they’re the former, when they really are just the latter. Some too loud, too proud: but are actually weak people. These are cases where there are underlying insecurities beneath. It’s a false front. Don’t be intimidated. – Huh? Where did all that come from?! HAHAHAHA!!!!

Anyway, the last two episodes were good.

‘STAND BY ME’ (Ki:Theory version) originally performed by Ben E. King

When the night

Has come

And the land is dark
And the moon

Is the only

Light we see
No, I won't

Be afraid,

Oh… I won't be afraid
Just as long

As you stand,

Stand by me

If the sky

That we look upon

Should tumble and fall
Or the mountains

Should crumble to the sea
I won't cry,

I won't cry,

No… I won't shed a tear
Just as long

As you stand,

Stand by me

And darling, darling, darling (stand by me)
Darling, darling, darling (stand by me)

And darling, darling (stand by me)
Darling, darling, darling (stand by me)

If the sky

That we look upon

Should tumble and fall
Or the mountain

Should crumble to the sea (stand by me)

I won't cry,

I won't cry,

No… I won't shed a tear
Just as long

As you stand,

Stand by me.