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Originally released May 10, 2005 (US)
May 9, 2005 (UK)


Ohmwork

Track Listing

  1. Misfit (Download Sample)
  2. Pardon My Depression (Download Sample)
  3. Prisoner 103 (Download Sample)
  4. I Believe (Download Sample)
  5. Aural Sects (Download Sample)
  6. Pseudocide (Download Sample)
  7. Pull The String (Download Sample)
  8. Alone (Download Sample)
  9. Dogs of Whore (Download Sample)
  10. Don't You Know (Download Sample)

Credits

  • Terence "Geezer" Butler - Bass
  • Pedro Howse - Guitar
  • Clark Brown - Vocals
  • Chad Smith - Drums
  • Produced by Terence "Geezer" Butler
  • Engineered by Jason McEntire
  • Additional Engineering by Chris Hughes
  • Recorded at Shock City Music Works
  • Mixed by Toby Wright
  • Assisted by James Musshorn
  • Mixed at Skip Saylor Recording
  • Mastered by Stephen Marcussen @ Marcussen Mastering LLC
  • Additional Vox (Pseudocide): Lisa Rieffel
  • Additional Vox (I Believe & Don't You Know): Terence D. Butler
  • All songs written by Butler, Howse, & Brown
  • Published by Aston Music LTD (ASCAP)

Catalogue Info

  • CD Sanctuary 06076-84679-2 (US 2005)

Notes

  • During recording, the track Misfit used to be called ph Balance
  • During recording, the track Alone used to be called Dooms Day.
  • The female vocal intro to the song Pseudocide is done by Lisa Riefell from the LA band Killola.
  • Geezer's son Biff sings harmony vocals on "I Believe" and "Don't You Know".
  • The Ohmwork cover art was done by Lawrence Azerrad of LADesign

Video

  • Here is a video of Pedro Howse playing some of the riffs from the Ohmwork album.
Lyrics
Misfit

Verse:
This whole wide world I’ve traveled
I’ve seen the sins of other men
The secrets that I’ve unraveled
They’ve made me who I am today

Pre Chorus:
The one who sold out all of my dreams
Can you tell me what this all did mean

Verse:
When the whole world has fallen
I will be living in a dream
The claims of war and poverty
They are holding you and me

Pre Chorus
Chorus:
Low, how far can we push this
Own, run my life like a misfit
Hate, I’ve grown to live my life by this word
Take, I’m taking none of your lies anymore

Middle:
Low, Own, Hate, Take

Chorus
Third verse same as the first
PreChorus
Chorus

Pardon My Depression

Verse:
Pardon my depression, my mind’s in recession
Compulsion for confession, it’s my soul’s obsession
Hey, I’m fallin apart today
Yeah, Yeah, I’m fallin apart
(repeat)

Verse:
Pardon my intrusion, I need a truth infusion
My life is just illusion, pardon my intrusion
Hey, I’m fallin apart today
Yeah, yeah, I’m fallin apart
(repeat)

Chorus:
I’ve got nothing to say to you
Except that I am confused
I’ve got nothing to say to you
Except that I am so used

Verse:
Pardon my aggression, my symbol of oppression
My only indiscretion, it’s my last transgression
Hey, I’m fallin apart today
Yeah, yeah, I’m fallin apart
(repeat)

Chorus

Prisoner 103

Verse:
Prisoner 103
Awakened by the onslaught
Of patient and low electrical hum
Sounds that are based
On just a little bit of poetry that sits on a low voice
Prisoner 103
Is taken on a journey
A basic regression of practical thought
And stolen his taste and the memory of all the things that make
The most sense

Chorus
What do you want
What do you need
How do you feel when you’re dying
What do you want
What do you need
How does it feel to be stolen
(Open your mind)

Verse:
Blaming it all on me
I’m making all the inner talk
Of insane mechanical satanical fun
Sounds that are laced
Through a portal of immortal light and energy
That’s right, the undead
Blaming it all on me
Your sanctioned to a faction
That takes up and makes up
Eternal wisdom
Life that is based
On a spec of a rejected vision
It’s what it all means

Chorus

Middle:
Take it out on me
And I will break your head in two
Take it out on me
I will slowly control you
And then I’ll own you
Take it out on me
And I will break your head in two

Chorus

Third verse same as the first

I Believe

Verse:
I believe we’ll win, I believe the soul
Believe I am, in the control
To start again
I believe the wind, I believe the soul,
Believe I am, in the control
To start again

Chorus:
Like it or not
Take it away
You gotta believe in someone
Like it or not
Take it away
You gotta believe in something

Verse:
So you make the change, make the change that would
Be embraced on the side of good
I believe in sin, cause I think it could
Be the hand that holds the world

Chorus
Middle:
God held me and told me you fight your enemies
Don’t let them make your end, you’ll make everything
The way it has to be
God held me

Verse:
You’re living through, you’re living through and fighting
I believe we’ll win, I believe it all
Believe I am, in the control

Chorus

Aural Sects

Verse:
Mother, you are the entity
You are the figure head
Of my insanity
Father, you are the criminoid
False possessor of my life
And suicide
Brother, you are the subliside
Your reign of hate will now only emplify
All on, your hated company
My only ties to you now have gone and died
Play on without your company
I don’t need to be him
I’ve just gotta be
All on, an ancient memory
I sold this soul out to all my enemies

Chorus:
You gotta drown yourself in shit
And find a fuckin face that fits
Masturbate some self control
And tell the world to save your soul

Verse:
All on, a hated memory
You can take back all of your sympathy
Play on, and moving toward the end
A negative light that I call my friend
Stay on, the road that all you made
The faces of light, now they start to fade
Hate on, it’s what it has to be
I don’t need to be him, I just need to be me

Chorus
Middle:
Fly on, fly on to save the world
Now I’ve got you in my hands
And I am leaving, leaning on another
I’m relearning with new eyes

Third Verse same as first
Chorus
Middle
Out verse: All on a hated memory

Pseudocide

Verse:
Simply there
A reflection of someone that you made
But it’s like the one, like the one you trust,
Like the one you know
It’s all made up by you

Pre Chorus
Force fed, man made

Verse:
Pseudocide
This is created by the fuel to be fired in the mind to kill everything
You are now extinct
Exempt to become someone else, so…

Pre Chorus
Force fed, man made, so fake

Chorus:
Pseudocide

Verse:
Cannot hide from the ones that know of your plan
Were not like the ones, like the ones you fooled
Like the ones you must, you impress, so hopeless

Pre Chorus
Chorus
Third verse same as the first

Pull the String

Verse:
Pull the string, it’s a ravenous thought
A ridiculous plot
Brought on by the enemies
Full disgrace, all which is bought by all of you
Full disgrace, all which is bought by all of you
Empty race, need a leader, not a criminal mind
Who is blind to the anarchy in life
Such a waste, all which is bought by all of you
Such a waste, all which is bought by all of you

Pre Chorus:
Unfit, overpaid, unfit, got it made

Chorus:
I know you’re so unclean
I’ll never trust you again
Sympathy that I won’t make
Stay away and just decay
I’ll never trust you again

Verse:
Pull the string, yeah, I’m angry and lost
A ridiculous plot
Brought on by the enemy
Full disgrace, all which is bought by all of you
Full disgrace, all which is bought by all of you
Human race, we are told to rely on the lies
That supply all the empathy and cries
Enemies, all of which were taught by all of you
Enemies, all of which were taught by all of you

Prechorus
Chorus
Middle;
I did it all and I gave it all and I did it all
That’s why I’m ruined
That’s why I’m ruined
That’s why I’m finished

Chorus

Alone

Verse:
Why do I pray
For the end of the day
Waiting here
With nothing to say

Chorus:
I’m sitting here hating nothing
But I’m loving just what I feel
I’m so alone

Verse:
Lies, now you’re growing up into why
I, now I’m wearing death as my crown

Dogs of Whore

Verse:
Give it…
Why don’t you, give it…
You hold it all, all for yourself
Your time you waste
On no one else
Why don’t you give me the lies of you
Never mind cause I don’t really like you

Verse:
It takes one man, to start a war
One tainted dollar bill
To turn a lover to whore
Why don’t you open your eyes it’s you
Never mind cause I don’t really like you

Chorus:
I live among the world with emptiness I try to hide
Alone I fight the hate that lives inside, it’s time to die

Middle:
Lies, just tell me lies, these lies of you
Never mind cause I don’t really like you (repeat)
We are the children of God, Jesus is our brother
We become one family, when we are baptized

Third verse same as first
Chorus
Out riff
Chorus and God part

Don’t You Know

Verse:
Don’t you know what you mean to me
You see me in the darkness
The unforgiving loneliness

Don’t you know…
You see me in my helpless hour

Don’t you know…
I’m living here in darkness
The unavading loneliness

Don’t you know…
I’m living in my helpless hour

Verse 2;
Can’t you wait just another day
I’m trying to make it through this
Abyss of loneliness

Can’t you wait…
It’s taking all of my power

Can’t you wait…
I’m dying to get through this
The unavading loneliness

Can’t you wait…
The situation is now dire

Prechorus
You gotta believe in me
You have to
You gotta believe in me
Because

Chorus:
I’m waiting, surrounded so alone
I’m waiting, outside the comfort zone
I’m waiting, where all my thoughts are sewn
Surrounded, yet so alone

Middle:
Every day, it’s the same living in the hours of the hate
I display and it’s taking over

Verse:
Don’t you know what you mean to me
I need you in the darkness
To empathize my loneliness

Don’t you know…
I’m dying in my helpless hour

Don’t you know…
Take away the darkness and give me back my happiness

Don’t you know….
And aid me in my helpless hour

Chorus

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