"The Ways We Go" is a song about miners. The mood of the music is as gloomy as the mines where the hard work is done. To a dragging dubstep rhythm, the protagonist sings about his work, which cost him his life at a young age. The despair is palpable, and the indifference of fellow human beings is also thematized - "Let's dance to forget - let's forget the regret". This is not a song to dream to. "I have to go before the sun is rising - I will be back when life is gone" is the last line of the song.