Most earnestly, rest easy. I will not claim complete understanding but I cannot overstate my reverence. circa May 2022

stream

rainbow bridge

sydney 

a LUCA+THE CAT+QUARTERMOON story

circa december 2020

sydney

The fractal song: love sex death & time travel 

circa April 2021

with artwork shot on location nearby Dickinson, North Dakota

the fractal song

The fractal song

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thx mom and dad for helping with the cover art

Do you know how to be eighteen?
Do you know how to send your dream?
I'm talking schemes to the max, I'm talking all of your facts
I'm talking all of the time, I'm talking all of the time

We still got a summer to spend
Waste our fucking time, we're taking acid again
And everything I got it all belongs to my friends
Everything is love, but I can never commit

My old swiss army knife
Stem cells, nothing is direct
Everything is love, everything is love
Take the leap, welcome to the plant cell bath

It's bright white, a new kind of mindset
A little clinical, never cynical no
Remember getting your brand new phone?
Remember doing that on your own?

Like being in charge, and fucking it up
What was good became a mess and you thought giving up was
Inevitable, but suddenly...
You feel a supercharge of life

My old swiss army knife
Stem cells, nothing is direct
Everything is love, everything is love
Take the leap, welcome to the plant cell bath

REM, get it all in
Alex found a rabbit now she's wondering if
This world's the place for her
You gotta stop smoking this shit...

Don't be frightened you are in a car
You've just woken up from sleep
I imagine you were in a dream
You are in a dream

My old swiss army knife
Stem cells, nothing is direct
Everything is love, everything is love
Take the leap, welcome to the plant cell bath

REM, at the party last week
You're going off of the grid
I'm just pressing repeat
Cause and effect, building my flying machine
Take the leap, welcome to the plant cell bath

welcome to the plant cell bath

Scene 7: Tweed, acrylic mirror shatters

I get out of bed, I get to work
I'm a sleepyhead, it never works
But I'm a working man, I'm a working girl
and I'm convinced my little scheme is gonna save the world

I'm a narcissist, but I'm optimistic
Something's gonna change, something for the better yeah I know it
Mom called me a conspiracy theorist, she was kind of right but whatcha gonna do?

To be twenty in your room
Pretending I was you
Pretending I was you
I'm sorry for everything
Yeah I'm sorry for everything

I'm an ordinary guy, but my envy got the best of me
I made a new best friend, but now I'm scared of texting him
My uncle called me an empirical guy,
but he said I need to find myself a spiritual guide

I'm a regular girl, I do stuff for fun
I make friends on the computer, always talking to some
I use the internet to find true love
Is anybody every gonna understand?

To be twenty in your room
Pretending I was you
Pretending I was you
I'm sorry for everything
Pretending I was you
If something doesn't change soon

Welcome to the plant cell bath hey
Welcome to the plant cell bath

look

i'm sorry for everything

Scene 6: The air traffic control tower

Things can only go up from here

yeah i believe in God,
but i really need this money
you dialed up my natal chart
and i woke up in a library
an ancient library
you hardly know what i’ve been through

yeah i’ve been feeling kind of odd
you could say i’m out of sorts
we need drugs for summertime
cuz summer’s getting awful short
the kids need something to go thru

ok
i’m gonna say something weird
i swear
we aren’t consumed by fear
nonono
so if it’s up in the air
it’s only up from

The air traffic control tower

so you think you’re a scientist
on the precipice
girls doing cannonballs
what is this experiment
you said i’m delusional
what are you even talking about
you must’ve lost your mind
well i think you should shut your mouth

you sure are a philosopher
of a different caliber
so can i ask you something?
what do you think of the (drugs)?
cuz i think
the kids need something to go thru

it’s like there’s the drugs
and there’s me
like two separate cameras on the same scene
what do the drugs see from me
i need to know what the drugs think

i need to know

i’m gonna say something weird
i swear
we aren’t consumed by fear
nonono
so if it’s up in the air
it’s only up from here

at the The air traffic control tower

You need to change your mind
You need to say what you really mean
Cuz we're not gonna be here forever
no no no
And the sooner you learn to accept that—
—the sooner you and I are going to get along

you don't wanna make another mistake
the changes are slated,
impossible to erase
i thought i was mutilated, a massive mistake
but i have literally always been this way

you can't get mad at the kid
just to harbor the blame
i get that you're just a person
but you're fucking insane
i wanna get better
but you belong to my brain
i'm circumscribing a message
and you're repeating my name

alex

The air traffic control tower

Scene 1: The family reunion

You were snoring O.D. saw the particle fx
Last time we talked you didn’t know what to expect
So I laid this map out just to see where things connect
You went on vacation but baby I’m on a quest

Welcome to the family reunion
Everybody missed you a lot
You came at the perfect time
Cuz everybody—everyone is stuck in this knot 
I’m not looking for power, but I’m completely powerless
At the family reunion, I didn’t mean to talk about it
But you said that my calling was completely unrelated to this…
(Oh shit, shit I don’t know what to tell you)

You were snoring O.D. saw the particle fx
Last time we talked you didn’t know what to expect
I deliver products and I do my very best
You left on vacation baby, I left on this quest

But every time I look down, I see death
Or maybe something else, but it gives me the ick
Who would have thought after all this time away
I’d have to report back with nothing to say…

You were snoring O.D. saw the particle fx
Last time we talked you didn’t know what to expect
I’m sorry that I lashed out when you put me to the test
But I can’t be on vacation baby I’ve been on a quest

report back

Scene 2: The Savvy & Optimism Alley

I was walking down the street,
I was looking at my feet
Something told me give it up, just admit defeat
But something caught my eye
It took my breath away
A beautiful hot air balloon makes a getaway escape!

I've been here before it's not the first time
You told me how to live the last time that we talked
I've been on this block
Yeah I've been through this alley
I found something new,
I found—

The Nile River
Nazareth
Tennessee
& Timbuktu
Somebody's gotta figure it out soon
Whatever you want yeah it comes to you
Whatever you want yeah it comes to you
Somebody's really gotta figure it out soon

And when this all ends, I don't see us being friends
I think it's different
You know what I meant?
After all, you're a small town girl
I'm a roaming boy
It's an Open World

Have you heard of savvy?
Yeah that's just me with tech
Machines, computers, phones, I never even know what's next
I've been on this block
Yeah I've been through this alley
I found something new,
I found—

The Nile River
Nazareth
Tennessee
& Timbuktu
Somebody's gotta figure it out soon
Whatever you want yeah it comes to you
Whatever you want yeah it comes to you
Somebody's really gotta figure it out soon

Baby I know that you feel the pain
Sometimes it hurts so bad it's impossible to explain
And while I've been alive, I've barely lived at all
How could I live the life I want living in a bathroom stall?

I wish I could explain!
I took your name in vain
Yeah I took your name in vain
I regret it every day, but something had to change oh something had to change
something had to change
something had to change
something had to change

Cuz I've been caged by something gross and weird
For even more than 20 years

(It's the only thing I would ever want to give up at this point either)

The Nile River
Nazareth
Tennessee
& Timbuktu
Somebody's gotta figure it out soon
Whatever you want yeah it comes to you
Whatever you want yeah it comes to you
Somebody's really gotta figure it out soon

savvy & optimism alley

Scene 3: Ogden's Observatory

O—I found another curve
I ran out of words
I started looking at the night sky
I made an observation
It brought me back to Berwyn
Last time I thought I could be in love you nearly died

Cuz you need someone to rely on
And I need somebody to help me with construction
You see I'm working on a flying machine
Almost nobody knows yet,
About my little scheme

I don't know why
But I see you in a special kind of way
You're sort of like
The gateway drug to everything that makes me me

Like my sun sign
And my biggest secret
There are certain things that I like to keep pretty sacred
Just like Ogden
I've only ever met him twice
But you're my best friend, so please let me explain
I've been studying batwings and chainmail and old tech—
—and based on what my Dad said:
Everybody think's we're turning this around
We're gonna make it to the next step

I don't know why
But I see you in a special kind of way
You're sort of like
The gateway drug to everything that makes me me

Beautiful boy

O—I know you're being polite
But with God on the line
You know I'm taking your side
O—I don't know why
But I see you in a special light

ogden

Scene 4: The Bathroom

I’m going gizmo
There’s a fallacy
Everyday I wake up and struggle to understand this part of me

Sometimes I feel like the wrong guy for the job
I wake up, look in the mirror, I swear to god
I can put my feelings aside
I’m chasing a dream—Yeah, a hobby of mine

Or maybe I’m just starved for attention
It goes way way way back, all the way to Ascension
So I built this contraption
To add to my collection
Little tiny shards of affection

I’m going gizmo
There’s a fallacy
Everyday I wake up and struggle to understand this part of me

And on my nightstand
I keep a cup of pure source
I charge all of my devices
Same place I keep my swords

(Monologue)

Alright so let’s try and think about it chronologically
I’d say the first thing to really set me off is
I tried LSD when I was seventeen
I didn’t do it for another year maybe—or another two years almost
But, the second time I tried it I had a really powerful experience:
I wouldn’t say it gave me the key to everything but
It certainly took me and plopped me on my path,
My spiritual journey, and—

I'm going gizmo
It's a fallacy

gizmo

Optifine

I want ur loaded eyes
Looking at me tonight
Baby can you tell what this rlly is

Fuck baby I need ur touch
Baby this is too much
Fuck

Flesh without blood

No no we dont go long enough
And then then it starts to get rough
but ur eating me up
Do u even like girls
im needing the rush


Okay yeah lets drop back in
Drama music sleep then sin
Fuck it just get the message sent
Maybe what u give up for lent

Come on sister lets get bent
Youre so fly for speaking French
Party girls are heaven sent

Animal

Boys

Blasé

U n Me

Cagematch

Cherry crush hands

Free

kiss

Parkour

Touch n Go

Racetracks

Light the candle we go out
City pop, hit the town yeah, we going out

Everything you're ever gonna ask of me
Anything I wanna do I do for free
Freedom is a deadly catastrophe
Everything I do, I want you free

Just do it
45 bands, fire daemon, bitch I'm Philip Glass
Do it
I don't care, fire daemon, I do it I want the tracks

Out the window see the cigarette ash
New tuxedo cause I'm looking for that
In the valley, generation rubble
Real wild childs tryna get that trouble

In the summertime

Whole squad at the park drinking box wine
Doomsday linkup just wanna kill time

Glasswork

HMU :) bringyourknapsack@gmail.com

You're my caffeine, you're my favorite thing
Turn me up from zero, turn me to a superhero
But if you're waiting on me for the energy
Look back in the rear view mirror
There's no chance you're gonna hear the call

I feel like I'm Nancy Drew
The way I'm looking for you
Treasure hunt then disappear

Is this Scooby dooby doo
I've been searching for the truth
And I don't have a damn clue
I don't know what to do
In my bedroom all night long
Writing all these damn songs
Just wanna quit my day job

There's something else for you

Ok
Pulling up to the hotel
Whole studio in my backpack
Is this gonna go well
We can never tell
And it feels horrible
Running all the damn time
But you don't even know what you're really running from
I'll run to Tokyo
I'll run any anywhere until it feels fucking right

Back and forth like it's ping pong
Tryna write all these damn songs
Haven't seen you in so long



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