We saw it coming...
A Prometheus track from 1993 is still strangely relevant today.
Prometheus, was a self-titled album released in 1994 on Sanford Ponder’s Deep Music label. The album featured a stellar set of musicians’ musicians including:
Sanford Ponder - Guitars, Percussion
Steve Ball - Guitars, Vocals, Keyboard, Percussion
Pat Mastelotto - Drums, Percussion
Nigel Gavin - Bass, Voice
Chris Rhyne - Solo Synth, Organ
Steuart Liebig - additional Bass
Chorus Vocals: Sony Columbia Sound Design choir
If you listen in headphones, you will experience for yourself why Sanford deserves the Oscar he won for sound design on FF Coppola’s “Bram Stoker’s Dracula”.
And also, you’ll hear IMNSHO, why Pat Mastelotto so righteously deserved to join Sylvian Fripp, then King Crimson soon after this was recorded.
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assault on the consensus
we saw it coming, a white knife rising
our eyes connected, our senses widened
should have pulled out while the door was open
should have fixed the leak when it was broken
righteous selfish
throwback repeat
silent protest
blinded senseless
pink plastic bandage on an airbrush cancer
pour from the rubber tongue, elastic answer
dissected, disconnected, empty motion
the outside amplified, the inside frozen
mailbox empty
airtight reason
redneck backfire
cordless deathsquad
We saw it coming:
talkshow slavery
neon headstone
science conscience
sequence consequence
Music: Sanford Ponder & Steve Ball
Lyrics: Steve Ball
Q: do these lyrics seem dated in 2026? They were written (with this song) at Sanford’s loft / studio on 8th and Spring in downtown LA, in a famous building that was near the center of the Rodney King riots.
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