Everybody who built the carpal tunnel went blind afterwards.

**"everybody who built the carpal tunnel went blind afterwards."** is a song by Negative Øhio. The track is a mix of brutality, harsh noise and ridicolous note spam, with vocals sung by the digital vocalist Marie Ork. It is labeled as genres such as Industrial Metal, Digital Hardcore, Avant-Garde Metal and Noise.

It was released on April 9, 2020 digitally. It was later also remixed for the album *Never Mind The Gap*.

## Composition

The song have two main sections; verses that features a main riff created by sampling a zipper, and solo sections where various digital instruments are used to jam out. Towards the end of the song there is also an extended breakdown. The solos were composed around the idea of cramming in as many notes as possible.

Everything except the samples main riff in the song is programmed, including the growled vocals which were created with the Alter/Ego digital vocalist software. The digital singer featured on the track is called Marie Ork.

The song is composed at 210BPM in a 4/4 time signature, with occasional jumps into 6/4.

### Unisexy Mix

A remix was made for the Never Mind The Gap album, which aims to make the song feel a bit more organic. The lead vocals were replaced with actual growling done by both members of the band, and heavy bass guitar was recorded to give the whole song a bit more oomph. The mix was also cleaned up significantly to be more clear.

## Lyrical Themes

The song tells a sci-fi story about humanity traveling to an alternate timeline in an attempt to find the resources necessary due to overpopulation. Their plan goes horribly wrong when they meet their own selves in the alternate timeline and decides the only course of action is to start war with themselves. The conflict is finally resolved when they learn to love their other self (in more ways than one), and by extension learning to take care of the earth instead of trying to weasel out of responsibility.

The lyrics are inspired by contemporary issues such as overpopluation, enviormentalism, war and colonialism, using satire and goofball humor to make points about them and the people responsible for causing these issues.

## Lyrics

```
There is a crisis on an overpopulated earth
No more resources to accommodate new births
So let’s open a wormhole to an alternate timeline
With much less pollution, everything will be sublime

Oh wait, we didn’t think of our alternate selves
They can’t make room for all of us, man this is hell
So we went back and built a laser gun to colonize shit
Time to wage interdimensional war, when the beat hits

Are you ready to fight yourself!?

We need to justify this slaughter, umm let’s see
Their way of life is different even though they are you and me
Wait, this is a thin excuse, and karma’s a bitch
If we want ourselves to live, we need to die in a ditch

This confusing violent mess is our only solution
Making environmental progress is just way too hard
Let’s just pump out more old guns and lots of pollution
We don’t need no rhyme or reason, whatever we do is smart

Are you ready to murder yourself!?

Oh my God, what have we done?
This is going awful for everyone
Our seed of destruction has been sown
Hindsight is so hard, how could we have known?

We shouldn’t fight ourselves, time to put down our arms
Make up for misdeeds and try to mend our harms
Let’s not only care about the folks from our timeline
Love yourself on the other side, and then it will be sublime

Can you love yourself!?

Prevent overpopulation by fucking yourself
Go help save the world by banging yourself
Interdimensional fucking with you and yourself
Nothing beats the feeling of screwing yourself

Love yourself
Fuck yourself
Love yourself
Fuck yourself

Save yourself
Fuck yourself
Save yourself
Fuck yourself

```

## Trivia

* The song's title, while directly relating to the band's lore, is also a veiled reference to guitar wankery. This is rendered somewhat ironic, as the solos in the song are all programmed, and as such nobody actually played a single note on a guitar in this.

## See also

* Stack Man
* Alternate Timelines
* Carpal Tunnel

## Sources

1. ↑ https://negativeohio.bandcamp.com/track/everybody-who-built-the-carpal-tunnel-went-blind-afterwards
2. ↑ https://soundcloud.com/negativeohio/everybody-who-built-the-carpal-tunnel-went-blind-afterwards