Soon, the label and studio were both visited by these government types who wanted to see if everything was okay with our operation. Our CFO was interviewed about the nature of the track, and was told that something weird was going on with the people who were exposed to it for too long. I never heard exactly what the CFO was told, but the rumor was that people were offing themselves because they couldn’t get it out of their heads. It affected some people more strongly than others, but those who did killed themselves in a very specific way that freaked the label out and pulled the song.
With the help of those government guys, the label pulled ‘See You After, Babe’ and removed any trace of its existence. The staff was never told exactly why, but for a lot of 2008 we heard stories of agents going to radio stations and stopping DJs from playing the track, even arresting those who persisted. As if this wasn’t disturbing enough, we later heard that all three members of Symmetry Icon had killed themselves not long after the song was taken off the air. Apparently, they had sliced up their own faces with shards of glass and bled to death. They left a note saying that they’d never be able to top “See You After, Babe” and there was no point in trying. They were haunted by the song, and used to glass to try and “dig it out”.
I’m not sure if you believe in the supernatural, but I am telling you right now that there is a shady reason why you can’t find that song anywhere. It’s some bad voodoo, it makes people do some fucked up things to themselves. I know you want to do this for your friend, and I’m sorry for your loss, but trust me when I say you will never find the full song. That shit is buried.
For a long time, we were told to immediately let the company know if the song was played anywhere. I heard it in a dressing room at a mall one time when I was out shopping around mid-2010. I recorded it on my phone at the time to show my bosses, but kinda never got around to showing them. The issue hadn’t been discussed in a bit over two years, and I never heard it again after that. I like to listen to it every now and then and think over all the things that happened because of it.
