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I don’t want to set the world on fire…

— The Ink Spots (recording)  ·  Fallout 3 (2008)

An engraved brass dial rests beside an unlit cream candle in a blue twilight room.
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The song’s gentle declaration sits against a world marked by catastrophic destruction. That contrast gives its use in Fallout 3 a tenderness that the setting cannot supply. This is a brief lyric excerpt from an older Ink Spots recording, whose1941 version is documented separately; the game did not originate the song.

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  • GamesRadar+The song’s gentle declaration sits against a world marked by catastrophic destruction. That contrast gives its use in Fallout 3 a tenderness that the setting cannot supply. This is a brief lyric excerpt from an older Ink Spots recording, whose1941 version is documented separately; the game did not originate the song.Reference checked
  • University of PennsylvaniaThe song’s gentle declaration sits against a world marked by catastrophic destruction. That contrast gives its use in Fallout 3 a tenderness that the setting cannot supply. This is a brief lyric excerpt from an older Ink Spots recording, whose1941 version is documented separately; the game did not originate the song.Reference checked

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