O.R.T. is a song from Silent Hill: Origins. It is track 11 of the game’s soundtrack and was composed by Akira Yamaoka with vocals by Mary Elizabeth McGlynn. It plays in the beginning of the game when Travis Grady chats with a fellow trucker, and again when he chases Alessa Gillespie through the fog.
O.R.T. stands for Oral Rehydration Therapy, a treatment used to deal with any number of illnesses due to dehydration, and may even be administered for those with severe burns. It is probable that Alessa would have been subjected to this treatment after her burning, and the fact that this song plays and ends just before discovering her burning home might be foreshadowing of what she has to endure.
The album version is slightly different from the one heard in-game.
LYRICS:
Is it lonely where you are…
In there… Dad?
Does the darkness know your name?
Does Mom?
What’s it like?
Can you feel?
She said her blood turns to ash
Laughing…
Dad, do you know what you’ve done this time to me?
Oh…
Burning eyes can’t forgive you
Howling moon drives on
And deep in me
Your illusion
What you see in me
Is…
Did you have that dream again?
Release…
Breathe…
You’re receiving what you said
Said she
Never mind
Emptiness, dead eyes and lost what you found
Maybe there on the edge is your hope
But you don’t look down
Why?
There you go saying nothing
Here’s my mind unclear
Or
Could it be?
Maybe something has a hold of me
Like…
Composed by: Akira Yamaoka
Vocals by: Mary Elizabeth McGlynn
© Konami Music Entertainment, 2008. All Rights Reserved
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