thru the rhythm

• 13th floor elevators'un saykedelik hareketlerinden bir şarkıdır.
  
  vakti zamanında tommy hall tarafından okul kavramına karşı asi bir ruh haliyle yazılmıştır. "you follow all the teachings they taught you to digest/they may be hard to swallow but they'll keep your tongue depressed"! gibi.
• bu şarkı the psychedelic sounds of the 13th floor elevators albümünde bulunabilir ve sözleri de şu şekildedir:
  
  thru the rhythm of darkened times
  painted black by knowledge crimes
  and repetitions pointless mime
  instilling values the sick define
  that keeps the fabric that keeps you blind
  and ties your hands and cloaks your mind
  but on my stilts, i'm above the slime
  
  come on up if you can make the climb, but who am i?
  who am i? who am i?
  
  i've smelled the stench from the fumes that rise
  from the books that rehash the same old lies
  i felt the panic that they disguise
  in the forms of laws of every size
  i've heard the teachers whine and make me drop out like flies
  but you know they teach you nonsense, cause they can't blind your eyes
  i've seen the fools gold that they pawn off as their prize
  
  to the average standard the norm supplies, but where am i?
  where am i? where am i?
  
  you've gobbled all the blessings they caused you to digest
  they may be hard to swallow, but they keep your tongue depressed
  your scattered whims were born depressed
  so when something slams your chest
  you flutter about, you're sleek distressed
  and when you stop to ease your breast
  a scattered rim leaves you obsessed
  
  while solid thoughts are soon suppressed, but where are you?
  oh, where are you? hey! where are you?
  where are you?
  where are you?