Max Cavalera met Sean Lennon in 1999 during the Big Day Out festival in Australia.
While making plans for the album "Primitive", Gloria Cavalera, Max's wife, suggested a collaboration with Lennon.
We spent four days on that song; he came to my house, we scribbled around a little bit with the acoustic guitar, then we wrote the lyrics.
[1] In this song, co-writers Max Cavalera and Sean Lennon sing about everything turning to dust by screaming at the sky or looking at the sun.
[4] The first 2½ minutes of this song plays grungy metal riff, with all of the lyrics being sung in this part, and then to mostly vocalless world music part with synthesizers and keyboards, except when Sean talking to Max about how he hurt his fingertip by plucking heavy-gauge guitar strings.