Old Gods of Asgard: Take Control

Official lyric video posted on YouTube by Poets of the Fall

**Old Gods of Asgard: Take Control** is one of the Collectibles in *Control*. It is a recording of the song "Take Control" by the band Old Gods of Asgard.

## Lyrics

**Note**: These lyrics come from the official lyric video for "Take Control." No lyrics are shown in-game.

Take control, take control

I see a vision rising, dreary

Fading in as children play twilight games

In the town called Ordinary

An eye of light reveals a gateway to doomsday

In that projection of reality

Something passes through the stars, shifting walls

Enter agents of ill fantasy

For evil holds you in its arms, false alarms

Illusory, treading on reality

Polaris in a web of hypocrisy

Take control, take control

Oh, can’t you see, see the light is fading?

And in the night the demons rage and call your name

No deeper madness than your own making

Visions lashing blades of shame, but will you take the blame?

Hissing noises in the hallway

Bloodshot eyes, staring through, what seeds are sown?

Who’ll survive the blood red power play?

Who’ll take control, whose name will be known?

Illusory, reality’s all fallacy

Polaris in a web of hypocrisy

Take control, take control

I wish I’d had the wherewithal to find you when I had the chance

Instead I danced with death in fervour’s skin

I missed the moment before the fall to recognise I had a voice

A choice to stop it all from happening

If only I could save you from the pain

A rising sense of awe and wonder

A might I see has always been deep within me

I can feel my inborn power

I call the shots when it’s all finally clear to see

And so I’m drawn ever deeper

In the Oldest House and all these empty rooms

This vacant, spellbound mystery motel

Where I’m the keeper, where I set the rules

Potency is my new reality

Polaris living now inside of me

I control, I control

## Location

This Collectible is automatically obtained after traversing the Ashtray Maze during the main story mission Polaris.

## Notes

A series of hidden messages can be heard throughout the song when it is played in reverse. The full transcription of these messages is below:

In their drunken fever states, see them both profoundly; the pyramid in the stone file becomes a spruce tree

The diamond will tell you where; 1, 19, 7, 1, 18, 4, 9, 19 ("Asgard is")

Landing on the polar star and rushing on to the red room, find the cord to take you to a secret rendezvous

This hidden message is used to solve a secret puzzle in the Investigations Sector in the *AWE* expansion:

1. In the Shifted Passage, there is a wall section where a painting of spruce trees is on display. Destroying the wall will reveal an entirely new section with a sideways office leading to another room, where a radio plays "Take Control." (The Employee Misdemeanor Collectible can be found in the sideways office area.) Another painting of spruce trees is in this room, and when destroyed, it reveals a passage leading to a diamond-shaped hole.
2. Inside the room past the diamond-shaped hole, there is a clock which can be interacted with. The sequence of numbers in the second line refers to the hand positions on the clock when converted from military time (1-19-7-1-18-4-9-19 becomes 1-7-7-1-6-4-9-7.) Inputting them in the correct order will create a hole in the floor.
3. A star-shaped platform is at the bottom of the hole. From there, a section of Hiss-filled red offices can be reached, and when all the enemies are killed, the light switch cord will appear, leading to the Oceanview Motel. Traversing the Motel as normal will award the unique Aerobics Personal Mod and the Valhalla Nursing Home Hotline Collectible.