Born out of the rubble of an expedition in Nepal where Beautiful Machines wrote this song, just barely escaping before everything went to hell and they would have been barricaded in their proverbial fortress of solitude for months and years had they not escaped by a narrow window of a few hours on literally the last flight out before a mega governmental lockdown. Journeying through Kathmandu amidst the backdrop of an earthquake-leveled, post-apocalyptic city and witnessing another level of human struggle, helped birth the idea of 'Survive.’