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Mad Prophet of the Airwaves

from The Wolf and The Fox by Warren of Ohms

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The first track completed for the album. This song was written in two sessions over a few hours and recorded on the spot. The sound clip from the beginning and middle of the track is taken from the 1976 film 'Network'. The first portion of the song was actually written around the sample and the vocals contained within the first two minutes are actually the scratch vocals I made up on the spot to demo out what the song would sound like with singing over it. They turned out so well that I decided to keep them. After releasing this song and completing the writing of the album, I realized it was such a departure from the sound of Untitled that I scrapped all of the other songs to adhere more to the tone of this track. The use of "goddamnit" in the sound clip is the closest my music has gotten to using cuss words or profanity thus far.

lyrics

I'm a HUMAN BEING, God damnit! My life has VALUE!

When you fall from the bottom,
I guess the height doesn't seem that bad.
It's only when you've noticed your ankles are broken
that you've realized you never quite landed.
I'd trade my existence for one moment in time
just to be the dead skin on another person's hands.

We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat. We sit watching our TV's while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.' Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get mad.
You've got to say, 'I'm a HUMAN BEING, God damnit! My life has VALUE!'

I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!
I won't take this anymore!

I've lost my way.
Have I defected?

My indifference and insensitivity have led only to suffering
Is all of life reduced to the common rubble of banality?

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from The Wolf and The Fox, released November 18, 2014

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Warren of Ohms Tempe, Arizona

One-man noisy noodle band.
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