Puscifer - "Bread and Circus" (Visualizer)

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Lyrics:
Here we are in the middle of our existential reckoning.
Long ago we all traded, regretfully abdicated our voice and our light, self sovereignty, charge, our command, and means.
Traded it all for Bread and Circus.
Here we are in the middle of our existential reckoning.
The pawns and powers that be play checkers, chess, and monopoly for keeps, for life, for all, to the death, for our servility.
Acquiescent and idling. Predestinated circling.
Romulus and Remus paradox, trade it all for nothing more than concessions, fireworks, pageantry, glitter, gladiators, and jesters, just entertainers. Bread and Circus.
Here we are in the middle of our existential reckoning
Acquiescent and idling. Predestinated Circling.
Bread and Circus.
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[@MrPeekingpanda]

It’s a masterpiece, the masses just don’t realize it yet. Definitely the best puscifer record to date, IMO.

[@davazz9586]

its great the masses cant understand

[@razorcandi11]

Im not mass, I already know its good lol.

[@draydinbardon9782]

Youre right. I didnt even know about this album til today, this is my very first listen.

[@polarbare3]

MJK is the king of slow burn greatness.

[@nck4888]

Lol the masses don't realize a lot

[@marc_spence]

The production on this is amazing. Everything is so balanced and nothing is competing to be heard.

[@ginadavis5187]

Perché Keenan è un Genio e basta. Naturalmente nominando Maynard,intendo includere sempre,tutti gli STRAORDINARI elementi delle varie equipe di lavoro. E poi,Maghi si nasce,scusatemi se lo dico. Si nasce con un Talento Naturale,Lui è nato con questo. E non solo. Come molti,come molti di noi.

[@kenzi-5761]

@@d1theonly kzbin.info/www/bejne/aKWvl2SAhJqVrKc

[@marc_spence]

@@ginadavis5187 Maynard è un'espressione cumulativa dei nostri pensieri e sentimenti in questo momento. Se potessimo essere espressivi l'uno con l'altro, allora credo che potremmo avere la possibilità di prosperare. :)

[@marc_spence]

@@d1theonly I find the beauty in the time that they spent to create the music. Windy triggered filter sweeps and snare reverb are a means to an end and that end is just their journey in music. I think it's just a really well put together song - better than I could do at the least!

[@ThugAim]

A commanding presence, which cannot be ignored...

[@evanmeub4572]

This album will age like a fine wine. Years from now when anyone listens back to this, they will get chills. This album is THE soundtrack to living through a pandemic along with the political distress the states have been under during the years after Money Shot. Every Puscifer album has it's own theme and concept but this is the first one that truly speaks for every single person out there. It will bring the listener straight back to 2020 yet somehow still remain completely timeless.

[@jessy7814]

its always the case with Maynard's music cheers mate!

[@oceanmachine1906]

Similar for Fear Inoculum though

[@evanmeub4572]

@@oceanmachine1906 everyone has their own taste and it's all subjective, but for me, fear inoculum while impressive to say the least, it really did feel like tool consciously trying to sound like tool, where as this release feels like a genuine expression reaching for new ideas we haven't heard before

[@oceanmachine1906]

@@evanmeub4572 I wasn't talking about the music, you were talking about the theme ongoing in Maynard's recent lyrics

[@evanmeub4572]

@@oceanmachine1906 Im talking about the album as a whole

[@chrisclevenger1582]

This song brings me to tears in such a tragically beautiful way.

[@Moo-Fah-Sahh]

Same man, I don't understand why, but I've come to find the most beautiful songs do that to me.

[@mariajoaotrindade3455]

He's done it again. First I was like "this might be a little too weird for me"; now the more I listen to the whole album, the more I love it and get absolutely lost in it.

[@jaronhallett5942]

We trade our self sovereignty for bread and Circus. We trade our freedom for food and entertainment. These lyrics hit hard. Society comes at a price.

[@justinw2232]

The Lepht want to trade it for kollectivism and blud..

[@Stealthmodeon]

All by design - they knew the historic population of industrialized countries would never vote for Communism. So in perfect Stalinesque fashion they "replaced the voters" and also know "it does not matter what the people vote, it is the people who count the vote that matter"...

[@justinw2232]

@@Stealthmodeon indeed

[@christopherdouglas512]

He’s using you uneducated folk. You still don’t get it! Be a good person who cares more about others than yourself or you will die!!!!

[@bloodlite6962]

Well said this is what I get from this song sure wish I could have seen this tour

[@AlidaRocks2084]

Monopoly is actually the shortest game ever played. The bank always wins.

[@notsure1969]

Truth.

[@tobiasbenson7860]

Money is a scam.

[@Someone-hj2mn]

@@tobiasbenson7860 money does not exist

[@therantwithgrant2051]

Bingo

[@winterlogical]

I'm in disbelief that the same guy who wrote this song, under the same band name, previously sang about ladies with thiccness, tossing saddlebags over him, and bootylicious women. But at the same time, it makes perfect sense. Wtf Maynard.

[@user-xb7tb9rz4j]

Way back when he was down the vagina mine handing out sour grapes!

[@Zenboy23]

@klee66 XD

[@Repugnus.Rebellion]

Sense from a senseless universe

[@gravelrun4028]

It's his split personalities. Tool used to be an angry mess, now they're introspective and observant. A Perfect Circle is where the songs for Tool didn't make the cut, but still sound great. And Puscifer can be emotional and introspective in songs like The Humbling River, while they can be funny and just a joking type band in Country Boner and Conditions of My Parole.

[@TaterKakez]

I know the diversity is why I love him 😂

[@531ff]

I feel like Maynard knows things we don’t ..

[@10kCrows]

Definitely haha 👽👽👽

[@Illumignostic]

who's we?

[@soth1sol]

You don't know a thing. Watch things (ego) die.

[@Illumignostic]

@@soth1sol sloth? is that you?

[@billyalarie929]

He certainly likes it that way.

[@lavalady5097]

This is one of them u have playing in the background while yr working and suddenly it gets u and u have to stop yr work and sit back and listen

[@kevinmock5942]

This is one of puscifers best albums in my opinion.

[@michelledawn1422]

I love you, Maynard. You're my only favorite for all all-time and you always will be.

[@haakfamily1352]

Sans death, no such thing as true freedom. I think it’s a very eloquent way of expressing exactly that. Magnificent poetry to music, or vice-versa ✌️

[@SuperTool75]

Maynard has a very close relationship with the universe.

[@dnt000]

You are the universe yourself, the image that we feel separate is false, the sense of division is the nature of the Ego. What do you think?

[@SuperTool75]

@@dnt000 I think I study Steiner and for this I know very well and that's exactly why I wrote it. No separation. Thank you

[@whygohome172]

We all do, he's just awake to it. He channels Universal Truths.

[@alexislasso1238]

Hen to pan 🌐

[@leon00778]

There's no reason for anyone to not be, quite honestly.

[@dennisburns2002]

Maynard studied the basics and, block by block, built his own pyramid. I've met multiple people with his name tattooed on their body. We all wanna touch that sweet golden 👁

[@RyanCheneyELR]

More and more relevant every day that passes

[@dtkdustinwood7827]

Every song this man makes gives me chills his ability to find the right tone and melody vocally astoundd me with every note!!!

[@soth1sol]

Move between the sounds, betwixt the spaces, try and read between the lines...

[@logicalschizoid_intp9698]

He doesn't write most of the songs, tho.

[@zaclovesschool2273]

Maynard says it takes about 7 years for waves of people to begin appreciating these records. Tool, APC, and puscifer. I'm happy that despite thinking it would take me some years to appreciate it, I am now suddenly thrust into it. And it was wine of all things that helped me understand the purpose.

[@loyaluwang4228]

What about wine?

[@andrewreeveart]

This album is a crackerjack-ding-dong-wobble of utter brilliance. I love it.

[@mfbomber]

Puscifer positively posts prolific ponderances post pandemic, providing perpetual progression, pragmatic propositions - propelling people profusely

[@PulsePersonalTraining]

Provocative popular post, pal.

[@chancemerritt3272]

Alliteration acrobatics!

[@philcasogonzo14]

10/10

[@dpaxeco]

Perfectly put

[@medomannos1503]

What in the captain turbot was that

[@-the-light]

Full moon, new Puscifer and Halloween. What could be better, this is heaven.

[@Kryp6]

The more I listen, the more I think this might be the single greatest thing i've ever heard

[@WallytheAussie]

My god that medley at the end from 5:24 Everything harmonises perfectly, and Carina's voice is just magnificent. This is utterly sublime music. In my opinion its probably the best opening track on what is very close to Maynard's best album.

[@TheDentist27]

Bread and circus was what the lower Roman Empire in Africa provided to the upper Roman Empire in Europe before its collapse. An unsustainable economy warded off rebellion for over a hundred years by providing food and gladiators to the population to keep them at bay. Then the empire fell.

[@user-pb1cc3bo8v]

Such as the USA and how we traded technology for our God. To the point where jabs are changing our gnome and stifling our connection to source so as mind control will lead to automatons and then transhumanism via total tyranny via tech. Materialism VS Spiritualism.

[@bloodofredmoon]

2018 - A Perfect Circle 2019 - Tool 2020 - Puscifer Thank you for 3 great albums in 3 years Maynard, and I wish you a smooth recovery from your lung damages. Fuck Covid!

[@razorcandi11]

yes

[@justinw2232]

Fuck gain of function

[@adrianlandreth9918]

Adenosine TriPhosphate for the win! That shit literally keeps you alive!

[@jordanmac99]

Like a 33rd degree freemason 👀 go figure they also tell you the truth what you refuse to see

[@jessicabechtel1566]

I’m really loving where this one takes me.

[@mamaharumi]

Loving the synth, hope they use it more on future albums.

[@brandonmiles8174]

Oh, my god. This is what 2020, humanity, needs. Can't wait until my wife wakes up to hear this. Its mixed perfectly.

[@mspray]

jfc, that synth coming in at about 3:20 is the bomb, majestic af.

[@mspray]

Just back to say that I am still not getting enough of this track.

[@VOIDMAKERR]

Fits the album theme so well

[@jarrodderr]

I wish Puscifer went more in the “Monsoons” and “Horizons” direction. The sound and emotion caught in those songs, That whole album was one of a kind, I suppose... 🤘🏻❤️

[@jarrodderr]

@Son of Perdition I appreciate it but I’m a veteran and a lover of God, Family, and Country but good luck bud. 👍🇺🇸❤️

[@soth1sol]

@@jarrodderr God and country and tool fan. Interesting.

[@liveecarbme]

the point of puscifer is to be ever evolving

[@jarrodderr]

@@soth1sol I was atheist for most of my life. Then shit happened... we all got our path bro.

[@jarrodderr]

@@liveecarbme Amen 👍

[@Pincer88]

Reckoning... the exact thing that is desperately needed, yet most simply prefer to remain in the comfortable denial of their bubble and damn 'all the other fools.' Wish we could return to who we seemingly were before the tinkering with reality and the societal fabric began.

[@alleycat420]

Honestly listening to the album through, the first time i was bored and then i listened to it a couple more times and its absolutely insane im not even sure how to describe it

[@mariajoaotrindade3455]

That's exactly how I felt/feel!

[@artsolomon202]

Of Tool, Perfect circle, Puscifer is the uneasiest and most throwing you in unexpected directions, and thats why i like it so much, there is only two others who can do that. Damn special, love it! 🤲🧠🤲

[@Canal_Seara_Busofila]

Rev. Maynard is back! Can I get an amen up in here? Can I also get a hallelujah? Thanks, Jesus!

[@MrDingus64]

Halle-fucken-lujah

[@NicestAHole]

I sence some hostility towards religion. Correct me if I'm wrong but you are the black sheep in your circle of self-righteous holier than though people pushing you out, if so rebelión towards the religious is a negative waste of time same as their belief in wasting time in their so called positive religion.

[@richardward1868]

Hear me now! I have seen the light! They have a conscious, they have a soul! Damn you let the rabbits wear glasses!!! Save our Brothers! Can I get an amen? Can I get a hallelujah?!?!?

[@amodernalchemist432]

Thank you Puscifer! For being who u are and what u do. Thank you SO much🔥🙏🏻🕉👽🛸🔥

[@sehlordhorr8540]

How does this not have all the views in the world already?

[@hazardjsimpson]

Incredible album, and the tour is the best I've seen yet.

[@hungjung580]

Absolutely fucking brilliant.

[@vintonzwahlen]

Another level! Gives me goosebumps

[@griffin2599]

If I had his voice I would just sing to myself all the time just so I could hear myself. Lol

[@BlackSheep830]

This is it. This is what I've been waiting for....to speak truth, to speak life, to speak love and all it's frailties.......This has taken far too long. Don't get me wrong, you can only produce brilliance in a certain amount of time....considering the place in which we live. But I thank-you Puscifer. Maynard you are one of my God's but I thank each and every member of this band for bringing so much of yourselves to this masterpiece that you've co-created. I cannot begin to articulate my appreciation. Your music inspires me to become an even better human than I already am.

[@annihilatedcanadian6506]

I know this will never be seen but this album so far has a very distinct tonal quality that seems to run through all the songs on the album, almost cyber ethereal. By that I mean, it sounds familiar throughout and has a strange commonality in each song with synth, drum and voice being very consistent.

[@JohnSmith-sl6uq]

It seems most like a concept album out of everything they have released. Common motifs, lyrics, themes etc throughout the album.

[@WHATTHEBEEP1]

A perfect Union of contrary things.

[@electrofan1796]

This reminds me of Glitch Mob in middle school 10 years back. Thanks for the memories. 💓🎶🎵🤯

[@lefever2269]

Maynards voice sounds like if a computer from the 90’s just gained consciousness

[@inappropriatern8060]

I think this album's gonna take a few deep dives.

[@sohailakmal3384]

Thats how music should be. Always accessible music shows lack of creativity and placates the status quo. Dive away my friend! This is my first time hearing this song and I am blown away by the technical production and the progressive buildup. Beautiful composition

[@NicestAHole]

@@sohailakmal3384 the message behind it will take some a few more dives than others. I'm on my 3rd. I think it's time to stop overthinking it.

[@macroisthemicro]

"Moderate the middle," the pun flies through politics, sound, the actual album and more. I've only caught those. Lyrically it is brought up in 3 different songs.

[@mspray]

I'm driving deep on this track. damn

[@brianmilan3592]

Fallen like a tear from terror I stand looking for my answers. Have i missed my dear desire , set flames left to the inner child Fear not faith but your own defiled Thoughts of motions to your grave Leading death and lacking grace. I never wanted to be this way a thousand times i wish to stay Wind swept and bellowed throughout this plight you were the last light that night. My fan boy moments paired with hits I lost myself in subconscious tricks -Brian M

[@hasturryan]

that tone in the right ear really hits home

[@HermeticAscetic22]

Fantastic song and album! The most avant Puscifer have sounded till date.

[@funkysith7627]

Three years later and society still went back to bread and circuses…

[@sehlordhorr8540]

Who is your favorite celebrity voting for?

[@armeniobraz]

Maynard is a visionary!

[@Philosopat]

Yeah one of the best albums I've ever heard after giving it the time it deserves. What a message! Wow! We're about to destroy ourselves... So sad yet it was predestined like a technological self destruction sequence.

[@PahubianInfluence666]

I really love the synth. Reminds me of being a kid. Loved the song.

[@phonetismscoop3713]

A song about "The Fall of Consciousness". Kudos Maynard.

[@adamhippiebeard2981]

The one that thumbs down it doesn't know we have always lived in paradise reflections of heaven on earth. History is made by the individual not by masses you've been rinsed out and hung out to dry can you dig it.

[@barnilsaikia4531]

Imagine listening to this after 20 years and getting the same pandemic vibes

[@fyodorkrasniy6181]

Thats an optimistic outlook, considering we might not get to listen to anything ever again after this ;)

[@sehlordhorr8540]

It’s more than a pandemic. That’s just the means to the agenda, our complete enslavement, & extermination

[@oldboy4271]

Listen loud with expensive headphones to experience full effect....

[@therantwithgrant2051]

Define "expansive" because 20 dollar earbuds that cost a nickel to make are expensive af to me and this album sounds great so far.

[@withmygoodeyeclosed]

@@therantwithgrant2051 Well the production is really good. It also sounds good on my cheap car speakers. But i have a proper stereo and DAC at home and it's a totally different experience, so many frequencies that are complimented by having good tweeters etc.

[@Demoncleanerrr]

I really disliked this album at first but I gotta say, after putting on a pair of high quality headphones and just letting it get into me it's freakin outstanding.

[@matthewbadalucco2367]

And it just keeps getting better!

[@TheScorpionBB]

Got the album day 1. Listened to it about 3 times and for the first time felt disappointed in a Maynard production. But today, today it clicked. Been listening to it all day feeling what I missed before.

[@tickletoot7806]

it might be sacrilegious to say..... but i think this is growing stronger to me than Fear Inoculum and most Tool/APC albums

[@wastnTIMEwastnTIME]

I really disliked your comment at first but I gotta say, after reading it again on a nice 4K oled screen it’s freakin outstanding🤙

[@Lsone350]

I have to say that's my reaction to most of pucsifers stuff, there's something in me that tries to resist and all of a sudden it just blossoms, it's strange I find most of my favorites do that to me

[@scorpianomusic]

My Favourite in the album 💿. Filled with melancholic dread and resignation

[@Taradraz]

Thanks Maynard, Matt and Carina for your music!! this is amazing

[@JoeSantini]

Always delivering such a powerful message in their work. So grateful to have artists such as these. Without folks like these, I feel like so many more people would be distracted and lost continuing to unknowingly support their own existential Reckoning.

[@jasonburga5211]

Maynard got ross geller to play on the record

[@Koettnylle]

Needs more dog barking and car horns tho

[@tins_world299]

Hahaha absolutely 😂😂

[@saucee3762]

I love you so much for this

[@Zenboy23]

HAHAHAHAH

[@tlovesretro]

Missing the explosions at the end of every song.

[@corywashburn]

I love the wail Maynard does later in the song after the word "reckoning".

[@anthonymorreale2057]

La France adore Mr Maynard Apc ...tool ...puscifer...forever

[@kevinbrown2589]

I'm a Maynerd, I'm astonished at the integrity of the lyrics to sounds like he's sitting there and typwriting it with the aliens from beyond .

[@tedigrizli]

The instrumentals on this album bring me back to the older At J tracks, I absolutely love the direction the group went!

[@sweet_candy_nutz6699]

I just went to their concert and it was amazing this was the first song they played it was awesome

[@knitelite4894]

Thank you SO much for sharing this soul reaching, beautiful music. Puscifer changed my life. Eternally grateful.

[@JpsbunnyApostle]

He is a fucking master when it comes to speaking of exactly what's happening in the world at the moment . I think Tool's Fear Innoculum and A Perfect Circles Eat the Elephant and Puscifers Existential Reckoning all speak to what's going on in the world in the most genius way. He's telling us what we already know but don't know we know ya know ?

[@sehlordhorr8540]

Maynard & Alex Jones should do a podcast together 👌🏻🤷🏻‍♂️😂

[@wilbertjimenez9400]

i was not expecting this, i just got on youtube

[@kylejoel2957]

We are sovereign.

[@cynzia_d]

I am speechless. Have to dig deeper, it sounds to become a masterpiece.

[@ComicalHealing]

Civilization may have been a mistake, we have advanced beyond our ability to mentally evolve and here in this year of 2020 we are learning just how flawed our systems that humans developed with the dawn of agriculture and organized states truly are. Will anything change though despite this existential reckoning or will we keep fighting for food and entertainment?

[@oceanmachine1906]

Seems like a story doesn't it, that life is a play and we are actors both performing (without realizing that it's only a play) and watching it as the audience.

[@julianamason6847]

I too wonder if humanity will change or keep on this path to its destruction.

[@froogsleegs]

If anyone's interested, that appears to be the distinctive style of artist Daniel Martin Diaz on the album cover. You should check him out.

[@stevenbabcock7220]

This song felt pretty meh the first time around but after I heard it about 3 or 4 times i realized it’s like one of the best songs that puscifer has ever made :0

[@IvanoForgione]

I feel exactly the same. I am so in love with this song, it wasn't love at first listen though

[@Iam_76]

its the best track on this album..

[@caw326]

Same, I didn't get into as much as I had a little too much of his wine to comprehend the entirety of the album's first listening with some folks. At 1:25 I just close my eyes and get put into this atmosphere in my head that only a few things can trigger, another being from one of Maynard's bands but only live. It's so hard to describe but something I will always stand by when it comes to Maynard's input in his music: The intros are always incredible. This one is not shy at all of another fantastic opening to such a great album.

[@heathschappell5472]

Concept...for us all now...incredible...one of the greatest written...like dudes off Vietnam...that was a big thing...and so is everything after 2019...

[@tonyellis5730]

I love how all 3 of the voices cross over to be one ☝️ then blow apart and the music sends you to some other place that you’ve been before but have never been before !!!! lol

[@xavybaby4797]

Thank you Maynard! You make life worth it sometimes 😂🤘🏼

[@lizbermea7714]

My cd is in its way! I can't wait!

[@mercuryrising9174]

This is the first puscifer album I've listened to. But I've listened to tool since 1996. Daily for atleast 12 years. I didn't even know about puscifer until a few years ago and never looked into it until now.

[@D0N0CIDE]

give puscifer a good try.. it's hit and miss on what you'll like.. and on the stuff you don't like you should try again.. some of them can sneak up on you after a few listens

[@Valhalla881]

Nach ein paar Minuten hören sofort Hühnerhaut🖤🖤🖤🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼

[@christophylax986]

Puscifer! The "awesome" version of Spinal Tap! Only they can write beautiful music and fun music, then make a rock opera out of it.

[@Maxthepal]

This album should be played at 1,5 speed. A new kind of experience. Try it, you might like it.

[@Recuda1]

My Current Jam. Wonderfully concise.

[@jayjohnston5011]

That synth interlude is trancendant

[@joelpanther9419]

Its $50 to get a copy of the CD here to NZ but it has to happen. This is brilliant. Thank you Pusifer.

[@rhwIII84]

I listen to this one almost everyday. Tremendous song.

[@iambullet2011]

This is exactly how I imagined the tapeworm project would have evolved

[@soth1sol]

ok. kewl.

[@nocturnalanimal4807]

Right?!

[@snappdre]

rip tapeworm

[@Jeffero28]

I love Potions but that tapeworm project was never going to be anything substantial. Maynard and Trent are two colossal talents but in music that type of collaboration rarely translates well. It's better that puscifer is a collective rather than two alphas vying for control.

[@mercuryrising9174]

@Brandon Rojas didn't that happen in or around 1998 ??????

[@leefcliviger]

instant classic, and you know its going to grow and grow - outstanding production

[@roxiesprinkles7015]

Yes!!! Finally the maynard voice that melts me to the core!!! I've missed that voice

[@MrSladeturner]

Great song 2023

[@stasiekorzechowski405]

Maynard and Carina should make a baby for the sake of music. It would be THE ULTIMATE vocalist!

[@silkeeberle8484]

👍 I like that your song, the melody and Carina's voice. Yes Maynard's too.

[@Staticbrain]

This is some high quality music yall

[@anthonymorreale2057]

Vive le vin de Mr Maynard..la France apprécie

[@arturomujicamedina5535]

De fondo suena genial, con buen volumen. Excelente.

[@jlf3348]

Witnessing the Majesty

[@lucifchristo]

good song for superbowl sunday

[@SummersSnaps]

Just jaw dropping beautiful.

[@jeffdicko]

Always a good day when new Puscifer comes along

[@christopherkaris1308]

Another master piece of beauty to open the eye wider and just a little more understanding towards everything around me