Taken Below

Track 3 of the Rainbow Factory Concept Album

🎵 Track 3 – “Taken Below”

Genre: Industrial Metal / Dark Orchestral Hybrid

Story Summary

After Scootaloo fails, she and the other “Failures” are separated from the rest of the foals. Guards and workers escort them away from the test grounds, leading them down into the depths beneath Cloudsdale. What starts as confusion quickly turns into horror as they descend through narrow, shadowed corridors. The brightness of the open sky is replaced with cold, metallic gloom. The track captures the dread of being taken where no pony ever returns — the Rainbow Factory’s hidden chambers.

Lyrics

The cheers above have turned to stone,
The path ahead I walk alone.
No second chance, no place to run,
The judgment’s passed, the test is done.

The crowd disperses, silence reigns,
They drag us down with iron chains.
Through halls where sunlight’s never shown,
We’re led to darkness, all unknown.

(Chorus)
Taken below, where shadows reign,
A world of silence, fear, and chains.
No way back to skies I knew,
The fall is deep… the fall is true.

Steps grow colder, walls press tight,
Echoes whisper in the night.
The further down, the less we see,
What waits below consumes the free.

Eyes like steel, no pity there,
The guards don’t speak, they only stare.
The air grows thick, the light grows dim,
The future fades, horizons slim.

(Chorus)
Taken below, where shadows reign,
A world of silence, fear, and chains.
No way back to skies I knew,
The fall is deep… the fall is true.

(Bridge – mechanical, grinding)
The sound of gears, the walls of steel,
A prison built where none can heal.
The gates ahead will soon reveal,
The fate they swore we’d never feel.

(Outro – dark whisper)
Taken below… no turning back.