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"INTO THE VISION" is a song about having the courage to break free of dominant colonial culture programming. William S. Burroughs is my favorite author, and it was rewarding to collaborate with him. The world lost one of its greatest independent thinkers when he passed away in 1997. Cheetah Chrome from The Dead Boys played most of the guitar. (I added two atonal overdubs.)

Synthesizers: ARP AVATAR, Maestro THEREMIN, Sequential PROPHET-5. Effects: DOD AMERICAN METAL, Eventide HARMONIZER, Moog VOCODER, Morley ECHO-CHORUS-VIBRATO, MXR DIGITAL DELAY. Electronic Percussion: Linn LINNDRUM, Pollard SYNDRUM QUAD.

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"INTO THE VISION"

Where the hand of darkness determines what is real
Is where chaos possesses its greatest appeal!
Where the amazing night stages its greatest triumph
Is where I’ll be standing when I make my jump...

Over the edge and into the vision!
(Into the vision!)

Dissolving thresholds are emerging underground!
Anger knows no bounds! Fury rises with nova sound
Until the creative urge explodes like a million suns,
Signifying that the time is ripe to plunge...

Over the edge and into the vision!
(Into the vision!)

Fan the flame from the pregnant spark
Till it madly absorbs the dark
Through the night with the light from within!

Umbilical cords tie organ to organ
In the gray room of an inner star-sun,
And when this complex creature is born,
Wounded galaxies will heal,
For this is the thirteenth coming.

Magnetic colors cradle a pensive cosmos
During a voracious growth period,
Precisely wraith-like clusters
In protogenic uterine spirals.
This superhuman emergency
Revels one with evolutionary enchantments,
Both flesh and fantasy
Insightful at three hundred and sixty degrees.
Exchange of wastes and nutrients continues.

"Electric waves of resistance
Sweeping through mind screens of the earth --
The message of Total Resistance
On short wave of the world --
This is war to extermination --
Shift linguals -- Cut word lines --
Vibrate tourists -- Free doorways --
Photo falling -- Word falling --
Break through in gray room --
Calling [snakeskin saviors of the American nations] --
Towers, open fire!"

Contractions enter stage left!
Chimerical unit-factors fly!
Suspended elements reintegrate!
Garnish torment! Pivotal hazard!
The vault becomes eggshell adult!
Death’s head in a spider’s web,
The scope and scale of the trans-crypt!

I breathe beyond limits on human potential!
I tap hidden forces, become elemental,
Feel my veins on fire with the spirit of adventure,
Say "YES!" to night by melting into metaphor!

Images are heard through the last gray word!
(Through the last gray word!)
The last gray word, the last gray word!
The last gray word, the last gray word!
Word! Word! Word! Word! Word! Word! Word! Word!
Word! Word! Word! Word! Word! Word! Word! Word!

[Copyright 1984 Todd Tamanend Clark & William Burroughs. All rights reserved.]

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from NOVA PSYCHEDELIA: SPECIAL EDITION, released October 31, 2005
Year: 1984. Personnel: TODD TAMANEND CLARK: Voice, Vocoder, Theremin, Synthesizer, Guitar, Percussion; WILLIAM BURROUGHS: Voice; CHEETAH CHROME: Guitar.

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Todd Tamanend Clark Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

TODD TAMANEND CLARK was born on August 10, 1952 in Greensboro, Pennsylvania. He was deeply influenced by Native American cultures, owl ornithology, the Monongahela River, 1950s science-fiction cinema, silver age comic books, beat poetry, space jazz, and the American psychedelic music of the 1960s. He was an early pioneer of adding synthesizers and effects processing to a punk rock aesthetic. ... more

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