BlackBoxWarrior -OKULTRA -Will Wood [Live in Studio] 

evil musicians go into the piano square

singing the monologue would have been extremely hard while playing the piano. the monologue separately with the phone, as it if were a phone call, is the most original thing I could have imagined! Will always has brilliant ideas, he's extremely creative

fun fact: the telephone isn't plugged in, Will Wood just has such control over his voice he can naturally apply an old-timey filter over it

i refuse to believe will isn't just greyscale irl

He must be contained in the piano cage

The monologue part made me actually scream how was that so perfect???? 😭

Will wood’s songs are wordy af with a thousand different philosophy and psyche references and I am living for it

how does will manage to look completely different in every video with him

This song somehow simultaneously sounds faster and slower when played live

When you can play Mary Had a Little Lamb on the piano "I'm something of a Will Wood myself"

ive done it boys, i can now recite the entire monologue off the top of my head. this is my lifes greatest achievement.

He in the piano corner again 😳

Fun Fact: You can tell who is a more aggressive Will Wood fan in the crowd by how much they bob their head to this song

I love that guy with the beanie just bobbing his head

fun fact: the piano isnt actually real, will wood can just perfectly imitate piano noises with his voice.

ok but the way he says "What? You think ideas spread because they're GOOD? No, they spread because people LIKE THEM," has so much John Mulaney energy

hope this doesnt sound oddly specific, but i absolutely adore the way he says "& wrapped a poison ivy noose" in this version?? & that piano playing is amazing as always

I’ve heard people tend to talk faster when they get nervous but this seems a bit extreme

I swear every single musician in the group are gods, they're so talented omg, Will Wood is such a good pianist what??? and song writer and vocalist, is this person actually even real

I liked Will Wood for a while now but I did Not know he was also Hot

This mans vocal range is actually insane, I wish I was a full baritone:(

BRR I LOVE THIS I LOVE THIS WILLY WONKA AND THE TAPEWORMS ARE EPIC

The title being a pun off of 'black box warning' made the entire song click for me with a crushing 'oh', and I say that as an ex-psychiatric medicine student

takes a shot every time i miss a will wood premiere

I'm the guy vibing behind Mr. Wood

the beginning piano part is insane oh my GOD

2:48 will was ABOUT to do the funny piano kick

Doing the monologue separate from the music was such a good idea. Not only did it allow more focus on what he's actually saying but also allowed more focus on the musicians making music in that section.

uGH the monologue is even better when i can actually understand it without the lyrics pulled up🤩 HHAHAHA

I am convinced Will is a voice actor, music producer, and pianist. And he just put them all into a song with The Tapeworms, live in a studio.

DAMN I DIDNT REALIZE HE CHANGED THE LYRICS A LITTLE IN THE MONOLOGUE- WILL YOU’RE A LEGEND!

BlackBoxWarrior but once Will Wood starts saying "FOR WHAT" he just keeps saying it til the next verse

At first I was surprised by this but as I got used, I fell in love with how every version of a will wood song has very different variations, so there are parts from one you might like best but on others you prefer another thing, also the delivery of the monologue was great.

I love this song and evry variation of it, since the times it was "Black box warrant". Actually trying to make a proper poetic translation into Russian right now. (I've already done " Thermodynamic Lawyer", it's been extremely challenging, but also extremely inspiring).

Lyrics: Well he collapsed with Stevens-Johnson syndrome on the E.R. floor, panic attacked, anaphylactic and ataxic The way he spun his butterfly risked all six his phalanges, roman candles at both ends of his synapses And the method with which he recycled his humors trojan horse'd his blood-brain barrier and raised the LD 50, yes-yes And through flight or fight revelation shame, the black box warrior, he skipped this town and headed straight down history Shields himself from reason in a kevlar baby blue tuxedo quilted from the finest fibers, flesh, and fiberglass, and flowers Ego a mosquito Evil incarnate, good incognito Pops placebos for labido Screaming bless the torpedos For what? for what? For what it's worth If it was going to kill you boy, it would have by now For what? for what? For what it's worth There's no more looking back, it's looking up or looking down Well he was wearing stolen rubber shoes and wrapped a poison ivy noose around his lotus jugular when they came Well they found him with a map to every victim of his love and a tattoo of a blue jay on his face And they waited for his vital signs to lie and let a flatline cry a hymn out in hungarian harmonic But he cocked his noggin, through his stoma sang for auld lang syne, happy birthday to the succulents, I'll die your hydroponics. His rib cage was a hornet's nest Palpitations set the beat, his vagus nerve a turk's head knot, an axel hitch, a carrick bend He wondered if christ consciousness would charge a cancellation fee Auf wiedersehn, au revoir, he gripped his wits right by their ends For what? for what? For what it's worth If it was going to k!ll you boy, it would have by now For what? for what? For what it's worth There's no more looking back, it's looking up or looking down Hello, welcome. Why don't you take a seat? Get comfortable, take a second if you need to Now what's bothering you? Well, why don't we start at the beginning? Growing up, how was your relationship with the fundamentals of conscious existence? And how about claustrophilic tendrils clapping caskets closed on seven knuckle thumbs, did you get along well with the gideon bugler pineal glands, your projector eyes casting scifi's on your str'd strands? Tell me about your nerve to steal nerves of steel from under bacchus' bloody nose Did namibian himbas tiedye you, your ears pierced with a phineas gage flagpole, did you die before your day? Thursday traction, Tuesday titration My hope is to assess through my objective report of your subjective conjecture whether this proprietary bled of expertise and seasoning works as well as this transorbital ice pick Holistic ballistics, you got a better idea? it's about the best we could come up with What, you think ideas spread because they're good? No, they spread because people like them So here we are once again, holding, as it were, a mirror up to your mirror I guess it's just something people do A bloody knife to split your infrastructure Wine to rev your motor function Coital machinations of the dead Well you mainline your animus Karate chop your abacus And learn to be an animal instead But i never did think you better than this Your modus operandi causes nazi skoptzyism and suicide Why to thine own self be try when it is you who are the problem Not the things you do but something sick inside Lithium and dialectics Boy you really is defective Cbt don't seem effective for that cluster B, accept it Offer up your innocence, please ignore the side effects You've lost your mind and almost lost your life before So you'll be fine For what? for what? For what it's worth, If it was going to kill you boy, it would have by now For what? for what? For what it's worth There's no more looking back And why would you want to look back I mean it's no good looking back so try to look forward now For what? for what? For what it's worth If they were gonna get you boy, they would have by now For what? for what? For what it's worth There's no more looking back, it's looking up or looking down

Locked away in the piano prison for our protection

I was expecting him to go even just slightly slower than the record version but NO he's just that fast

I was wondering where the monologue was then he did it ON THE PHONE???? epic

If someone dares and press that dislike button, then hand me a shovel

love the people in the back dancing to this song like i do

THE PHONE PART???? I LOVE THAT SO MUCH also funny how i just knew that stevens-johnson syndrome is something commonly caused by anticonvulsants; which are also used as mood stabilizers (anyways where my lamictal gang at!)

I'm not sure if this is the right place to put this, but i think the subject of the second verse might be a doctor who had prescribed the guy from the first verse, or other people who suffered similar fates, medications that lead to their death. The line "a map to all the victims of his love" could be about homicide like some people say, but the victims of his love could also represent clients whom he thought he was helping, while the medicines he prescribed actually killed them, hence them being his 'victims'. And the tattoo of a bluejay probably represents a lot of things but i think it could call back to the "kevlar baby-blue tuxedo" which may refrence a doctor/nurses uniform, and also could reference project BLUEBIRD. Idk but the symbolism and meaning in this song is really fascinating to me and i think its a really good criticism of the pharmaceutical industry's flaws!

When I want to mess with people, I sing this song because it scares them how quickly I can sing this. I also tend to sing this when I am nervous because talking fast helps me focus more

Save some words for the rest of us, Will

I hope it’s not weird or cringe sounding when I say I mostly rely on will wood videos when I struggle to train my hands to play something unfamiliar on the piano

I love this so much, especially his sitting down on the keyboard but maybe even more, the swinging of his earrings kills me

This is just one of those things you watch then IMMEDIATELY replay.

Showed this to my brother he said it was like someone was reading a thesaurus to him

Me when mom says I can have the 9 piece McNuggs

I like the way he says “Okay Ultra” a little too much. Also I can’t stop thinking of PLUS ULTRA DNJWKAKS

I KNOW THSI ENTIRE SONG BY HEART

will with the fresh cut 😤😤

Chaotic good man and the jazz lads back at it again.

Willwoods the only force in this universe that can make me gay

I know it's just them sitting on the piano, but mY GOD THAT FUCKING DOWN SCALE WHEN HE SITS ON IT ACTUALLY SOUNDS PLANNED AND GOOD?! LIKE IT ADDS SO MUCH DRAMA ONCE THE PSYCHIATRIST MONOLOUGE STARTS?!

This is the most chaotic-sounding song I've ever heard and I love it. This song is truly art and an experience to listen to.

The audience boppin

glad to hear this song still has a lot of words in it (in a very good way) pog :)

this song is so perfect i can’t put it into words, like dude, HOW IS IT SO PERFECT ITS ALMOST ALIEN???????

5:11 will gave a look at the drummer like: "are you ready?" the drummer: "hell ye" will: "I guess it's just something people do..." drummer: *sneakyly, lightly hits the hi-hat* will: "ASOPUJSADFIOSADNASDIGJANNGASDPMSDFIPSAERUJNTBATERMIONKA" drummer: *SODIJKNMASDIPJGUVAEJNMAEIPGUAENGARPEIJUGANERMG* sax player: *BOP BIP BOP BIP BOP BIP BOP* trumpet: *BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP*

I’m a new listener to Will Wood. I absolutely love his music, though I have much more to listen to. His songs just amaze me. Keep up your amazing work, Will!

Nice. I would even go as far as say very nice. There are a lot of words that I don’t know.

I absolutely love and adore his songs from the studio ofc but something about the LIVE in studio's get me. They're so expressive and add such a different tone to his songs. Idk man this guy is amazing.

I like to think that none of the tapeworms knew he was going to do the monologue after the instrumental and were very confused when he didn't start talking during the music.

THEY PUT ME IN THE PIANO SQUARE. PLEASE HELP. I CAN'T LEAVE!! I'VE BEEN HERE FOR WEEKS!!!!!

i just noticed that someone in the audience was mouthing along to the therapist monologue and i think i probably would have done that too if i were there tbh

good

If Will Wood was a stock i'd go into debt to buy more shares of him

AT 5:49 HE DID THE HAND THING

Never seen anyone more _in their element_ than this

I love the guy in the crowd w the striped beanie just vibing

haha, my sister based part of her characters story on the poison ivy noose line, its so unnecessarily cruel and i love it

Damn. That’s was good.

I cannot explain my need to sing the entire song everytime I think about it or hear it.

YES, YES.

Will wood back in the piano pit

Omg i love the way he bounces when his piano solo starts. He's too cute 😭😭😭💞💞

I love how RU-vid's auto-chaptering labels 3:48 - 5:10 as "Interview"

How does he never miss when playing the piano?? Incredible skill

The auto generate chapters are funny

groovalicious

The part at 2:50 always reminds me of Beetlejuice for some reason

This song fucking slaps oh my god-

This just explains in black-and-white how much of a talented musician this guy is

3:46 5:05 just leaving this here for me AAA

THE TRIPLE PIANO. IM SHITTING MYSELF

This is my favorite song to sing

The ppl jamming out are such a mood lmao

Even when he plays a wrong note it still sounds amazing (props for singing and playing at the same time) love your music

I transcribed this version of the monologue ("The Interview" in the chapters): Tom Sugarman, LCSW. Ah, yes. Hello, Mr. Crick. How are you today? No, not to worry. It’s perfectly natural to be nervous when doing something like this for the first time. So, uh. Why don’t you take a seat? Get comfortable. Take a second if you need to, all right? Good. Now, uh.. What's- what- what- what- What, uh.. What’s bothering you? Well, why not start from the beginning? Growing up, how was your relationship with the fundamentals of conscious existence? Did you have xenon or continue spilling down the Outer center of your blooming escher/mandelbrot head? And how about claustrophillic tendrils clapping caskets closed on seven knuckle thumbs? Did you get along well with the gideon bugle Or pineal glands your projector casting sci-fi Your STR’d strands? Interesting. Tell me about your nerve to steal nerves of steel from under Bacchus' bloody nose Did Namibian Himbas tie-dye you, your ears pierced with a Phineas Gage flagpole Did you die before your day? Well, Thursday traction and then Tuesday titration. No- My hope is to assess through my objective report of Your subjective conjecture Whether or not this proprietary blend of expertise and seasoning works as well as this Trans-orbital ice pick Holistic Ballistics. What, you got a better idea? Oh, it’s about the best we come up with. What, you think ideas spread because they’re good? No! They spread because people like them. So, once again here we are. Okay- Yeah, yeah, yeah, One more time. Holding a mirror As it were A mirror Up to your Mirror. I guess it’s just something people do.

shits so good ong

How does this man do this?! I can hardly follow along with the lyrics that was in the normal album, and he is here singing it perfectly while playing a piano?!!

The fucking piano skills this man has is beyond me

“Growing up, how was your relationship with the concept of fundamental existence?” -Will Wood, whenever the fuck this was uploaded

God I would love an instrumental version of this song, I love all of will woods songs but the instrumentals on this one was amazing

This version of the song is my absolute favorite. How do they all have SUCH talent!?!?!?

this man makes gibberish should so good

he is such a fantastic performer, i wanna see him live again

these lyrics make me feel something I didn’t realize I always felt

im soaked