I was obsessed with this album when it came out. This song specifically.

Then, Colors came out. 😂

The real irony is that BTBAM are the masters of technicality with feeling. 🤷🏻

Those arpeggios are unreal and magical.

never clicked on a video faster

Bro
..... the ending gives me shivers....emotions...tears in eyes.

To me this is a perfect outro

Paul Waggoner does both, I mean the clean solo in this song, and the bluesy jazz one in ants of the sky ooze feel

First time hearing BTBAM…. Can’t believe I’ve never consumed this this being such a fan of extreme prog like Cynic. This song is amazing

To me, that sweep solo is just simply, a triumphant victory. Ugh, so good.

Amazing song of a fantastic album!

"Alaska" was the first work of BTBAM that I heard, later "Colors", one of my favourite albums, and then the phenomenal "The Great Misdirect".

Really talented musicians!
I fell in love with their discography!

Back in ‘05 this was mind blowing, mainstream metal (for what it was) wasn’t featuring these sounds at all

To me as a metal guitar player, the sweeps and outtro to this song make me think of a positive and mutual end of a relationship, whether it be a friendship or romantic. The song perfectly encapsulates the sonic emotional rollercoaser of a relationship that goes wrong but is something that both parties walk away from better in the end. It has the perfect balance of emotion and also chaos

I mean the part before the sweeping is the most in the feel solo to me, and the sweep is so uplifting afterward its the best feeling.

Love this song - the ending is out of this world! Saw them live few years back and they are amazing!

The end feels like whatever is happening in that story, the end is them winning

Victory Records, a timecapsule

The way his face is twitching through the riffs is me every time I have listened to this over the last 20 years.

the sweeping arpeggios are literally conveying full raw emotion in the whole spectrum of sounds from dark to light its literally doing what ur asking in weeping but in a full broad range not a single tone

This song starts with tears and ends in feelings of triumphant victory.

funny that he called out sweeping as not having emotion, when this is one of the few songs that has emotion in the sweeps. especially in the slower bits of the end solo.

I woke up listening to this album and fell asleep listening to this album for at least a year straight. I remember traveling across the US jamming it the whole way.