The End of the Last Thousand Years

from Omit Self - Disc 1 and 2 by Word as a Virus

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This is when we got a permanent bass player and our keyboardist, Emily, joined the band. We still never put bass on this opening instrumental track. We had gotten a little better at recording, but not very much. Had our own studio in our practice space with a friend of ours. A lot of things were recorded terrible because we didn't have a clue about mic placement and were trying to mimic what we'd seen other people doing in studios we'd been in. I think I was playing guitar out of an Ampeg 8x10 at the time, which we thought was all low and sludgy, but it actually didn't sound all that good. Speakers that are expecting bass frequencies don't really do well with shrill guitar frequencies. Weird artists will plug shit into other shit and try to get shit going. It was innocent and dumb, and I was the one left to somehow make it audible with mixing.

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Without worth and without meaning has what I have felt
Nothing to no one
I am a design flaw to the natural order of life
I am the dirt
I am the cancer walking through your soul
This war has been lost
I will not give in though
Not on my soul
I will not be broken down into dust
Into the coward whose life fell short
Overcoming the adversity
I am not a disease
I am not a tumor and I will not carry one any longer
I am not your sympathy
My strength is born
My heart alive
The air still blowing and my struggle's far from over
But i will sacrifice
For the greater good
For the sun that will rise tomorrow
For I will wake tomorrow
For tomorrow will come

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from Omit Self - Disc 1 and 2, released June 27, 2022

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Word as a Virus Syracuse, New York

Word As A Virus was a band that existed in the frozen wasteland of Central New York from 2001-2004 when our singer and leader, Shaun Luu passed away after a long battle with brain cancer. This was the soundtrack to those years of wishful thinking and eventual grim reality. Those that were there, know. Those that weren't. listen. ... more

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