\\\\Tiny Bone////
Life is easy when you grow your own gold
Let me reiterate that love can't be sold
Life is easy when you grow your own gold

Your voids been engulfing mine
The job was done from the inside
Don't take your senses for granted
The cosmos didn't plan on it

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The final revelation. It’s easy to want things, it’s harder to go out and actually make something
for yourself. Life would be easy if everything you got everything you wanted. Maybe that’s part of life, the want/have and living with acceptance of things out of your control, but never giving up on things you can control.

Fun fact:
The last song on the album is (chronologically) the first one we wrote. This song symbolized a change in the direction of our band. I decided to actually learn how to use my voice in a way that I didn’t hate and never looked back from there. The official name is a random phrase Jake blurted out one day after we told him he was skinny ,but tiny bone just stuck so well as shorthand and now it’s basically a nickname for the song just as much as it is for Jake.

The Boniest Person on the Tiniest Planet

\\\\Spooptown////
Bittersweet company
Yeah I'm lonely but I'm not dying for attention yet
I'm looking for a word
Will you lend me a helping hand
Cause I'm trying to find a new way
To say the same thing

I've been keeping busy scraping brains off the highway in my psyche

Will you lend me a helping hand
Will you lend me a helping hand
Cause I'm trying to find a new way
To say the same thing
Not dying for attention just yet

I've been keeping busy scraping brains off the highway in my psyche

Will you lend me a helping hand
Will you lend me a helping hand
Cause I'm trying to find a new way
To say the same thing
Not dying for attention just yet

We've been hexed
Live in fear if you wish, but that's not a choice that I can forgive

I've been keeping busy
Scraping brains off the highway in my psyche

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This is the most honest song I’ve ever written and consequently it makes me feel the most self-conscious. I see this song as the first step in recovery to a sense of confidence and self-reliance. This song is about loving your friends and asking for help when you need it. Acknowledge your flaws and work towards growing out of (or into) them. Always speak out when you feel like your world is crumbling, you are loved and supported. 

Fun fact:
The name for this song came about the same way as ‘Hot Bowl Of Marbles:(‘ , Taylor made up a working title and it just stuck from there. Sarah Jones recorded her part last and the moment I heard the track with her on it I knew it would end up being one of my favorite.

Spooptown (ft. Sarah Jones)

\\\\Accepting Your Affinity////
Learning the limit of your own infinity can be troubling
When you have a lot to answer for

It's easy to slip into another personality

I don't expect you to set my feelings on the back burner
But I wouldn't put it past you either

I guess that's just my way of playing favorites

Watch me when I sleep
Keep adding weights to the chains that drown my under-proofed beliefs
Keep me weak, keep me weak
If you're looking for me
I'll be in the back meditating

Forgetting the physics of your inner gravity can be distracting
If you're always feeling bored

It's easy to drift into an alternate reality

I can't respect you if you don't make a change for the better
But I'll never learn to let it linger

I guess that's just my way of playing favorites

Watch me when I sleep
Keep adding weights to the chains that drown my under-proofed beliefs
Keep me weak, keep me weak
If you're looking for me
I'll be in the back meditating

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The title track is a little tricky, in essence it’s about the perceived duality in our existence. The music was written to set the scene for the lyrical concept. The chorus, which represents mania, sounds so drastically different from the verses, which represents depression.
The chorus is more confident and in your face whereas the verses are meek and lacking that confidence in order to set the tone of being engulfed in your sadness and tangled up in the reasons why you should and shouldn't feel the way you do. The chorus is for those who always think they have the answer to cope with, treat or cure any kind of mental illness even though they've have no experience, insight or education. The verses are my responses to how those people affect can affect your perception. 

Fun fact:
The first 3 lines actually have a double meaning,
‘Learning the limit of your own infinity can be troubling when you have a lot to answer for’
And
‘When you have a lot to answer for it's easy to slip into another personality’
So the second line is the pivot in the same way that this song is a pivot for the transition represented in this ep. The second verse has the same kind of double meaning structure with the first 3 lines, which is supposed to represent a different version of yourself dealing with the same thing. The "I guess that's just my way of playing favorites” lines are the constant between the two verses kind of symbolizing that you can wish yourself another life but the grass is never greener, which is more or less what the last song on the ep is about.

Accepting Your Affinity

\\\\trytobecool (ZORP IV)////
I'm the problem, I'm always gray
The sense of sour pains keeps the cancer at bay
Bleached clean, still can't save me

I've been coordinated
Operationally embedded
In something I've never laid my eyes on

Can't phase me with a shallow compliment
I don't like to be the subject
Bleached clean, still can't save me

I've been coordinated
Operationally embedded
In something I've never laid my eyes on

(You cannot save me from things that don't phase me)
The vibe from the next room has been leaking in
If I lose all blood accidentally is it still a sin 
Your energy is the best way to kill me

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trytobecool(Zorp IV) is about being indoctrinated into a toxic environment at birth, lied to, fed propaganda and bullshit your whole life and just PURGING it all in one manic sitting. This song is about being molded into something and then scolded and abandoned when you try to grow and progress. This song is about wanting to crawl out of your skin and never being able actually be at rest. The lyrics and meaning of the song expand on the ideas presented on the Zorp songs, progressing the transition into mental clarity. This song also represents the second attack on the ego and negativity.
However, the next track is the one that really starts to shift view points and turn the world upside down.

Fun fact:
This version of trytobecool(Zorp IV) is the fourth or fifth iteration that was spawned from many versions that were 80%-90% there. The vocals took the longest to get right and when we added Sherman into the mix we knew he was the proverbial icing on the cake. This is also the next song in the Zorp series.

Trytobecool (ft. Sherman Taylor)

\\\\\Orchid Mantis/////
Hiding in the guise of something beautiful
To lure the weak minds into their mandible, such camouflage

Such selfish thoughts they tried to set us down this path
We're all just costs and benefits
They better get their dividends
Such shallow thoughts in minds like this
Where money comes before all risks and just to be a part of it
We let them kill the heart of it

I'm afraid that we're losing the point of it all
Falling in love with the feeling so small and what's the excuse
We're all so much bigger than you

The excuses they never end
No time to look through a thicker lens
Sit pretty and take this disinformation
Sit calm in silent complacence

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“Orchid Mantis is named after an insect that disguises itself as a flower to attract prey. This seemed like a good comparison to how people in power make themselves look gracious when they basically want to eat you. We all feed into these ideas of the bigger picture and what's best for society and sometimes lose sight of things that matter like compassion and community.”
-Kera Krause

Fun Fact: We gave Kera the demo and song name and let her go wild. She did an amazing job writing about something we all feel and connect with deeply. This song represents the first attack on ego and negativity in the transition. Pursue your passions and career, but never put them before being a good person and doing good things.

Orchid Mantis (ft. Kera Krause & Caleb Behm)

\\\\Hot BOwl Of Marbles:(////
I have an irrational fear of linear time
Unearthing a secret is the ultimate crime

I hope you leave me pining for clarity
Soak my perceptive screen
Electromagnetic filters leave me blinded by earthly greed
Thanks to a life of conditioning
I block off my alien needs

Build a wall
Draw the line
That divides
The light

Spacetime is a single dimension
But not a path to mental elation
Embrace your Dionysian tendencies
Honor your isolation

I have an irrational fear of linear time
Unearthing a secret is the ultimate crime

Egos allude to separation
The object and observer constantly exist in cannon
Don't mistake an excuse for an explanation
My dream state is my counterweight
My truths are trustworthy

Build a wall
Draw the line
That divides
The light

Spacetime is a single dimension
But not a path to mental elation
Embrace your Dionysian tendencies
Honor your isolation

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HOt Bowl Of Marbles embodies the first stage in the transition. It’s more or less a personal narrative about overthinking, anxiety, isolation, self-loathing and the struggle to pursue positive thoughts versus negative ones. The song also lightly touches on coping with knowledge that can make living day to day life difficult, e.g. “i have an irrational fear of linear time” can be crudely interpreted as I’m afraid to die before my time, but to me it also means “I get anxious thinking that time isn’t cyclical” because the belief that “everything that could ever happen does happen and happens simultaneously forever in infinite universes” is just one way I cope with living. Still, I’m afraid of wasting my life and missing my chance. The second verse works closer to pondering the ego, recognizing that each of our individual experiences exist as a thread in the fabric of mass consciousness that engulfs the cosmos, ultimate truths and how embrace them to either distract yourself from your demons and ego or face them head on like the three songs after this do. When we were demoing this song Taylor came up with the name as a working title until the lyrics would be written, but I thought that the name worked well for the lyrics I ended up with so we kept it.

Fun fact: The first draft of lyrics were about the 2016 elections, but I couldn’t find the passion in my words that did justice to the instrumental. With the exception of the chorus “Build a wall, draw the line that divides the light” I gave it a complete rewrite and transformed the meaning of the chorus. That line originally was about discrimination and lies, but with the rewritten verses it’s about isolating yourself from the bad (and good) of the world.

Hot Bowl of Marbles

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Southpaw Sonata is:
Tyson Zarria- Bass, Vocals, Guitar
Taylor Dyer- Guitar, Vocals, Bass, Synth
Jake Reeves- Guitar, Vocals, Bass
Ryan Roberts- Drums

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