Story Behind The Song

A photograph of my Seattle Queen Anne share-house on a grey day; the sky is white. The top of Queen Ann hill has a giant radio tower, but nobody who lives on Queen Ann can get clear radio because the powerful signals seem to all overlap. Radio waves even get into the electricity. Peoples speakers and telephones are always buzzing with radio noize,

Song Description

Feeling trapped, agitated, disconnected, brainwashed by a giant media conspiracy that warps our thinking by Information overload. Radio waves are unhealthy for you, and cause anxiety. Religion is gone, no one believes in anything anymore becasue science and media took it all away.

Lyrics

white sky silhouette my house
outside the window
inside my cage

white noize saturates the airwaves
immerse my head in
electromagnetic waves

from static clouds
the information reigns
media reality is a vast conspiracy

give me something to believe in
give me some place to stand

it's not supposed to be like this; it ain't
it's not supposed to be this way
guess i was born in the wrong age

well i know you seek machine trance
infinite regress
anesthetized; all meaning has been stripped

but we cut the chords to our past
and set our souls adrift
in a schizodelic nightmare; a bad postmodern trip

give me something to believe in
give me some place to stand

it's not supposed to be like this; it ain't
it's not supposed to be this way
guess i was born in the wrong age; anyway

white sky silhouette my house
inside is clean but
my room is a wreck