The story of a mad man putting an end to the world while the audience of humanity watches it as the latest event in entertainment.

I Cannot Stop

Echo On opens with an excerpt of William Faulkner’s acceptance speech for the Nobel prize in literature, providing the album’s most positive message of belief in the human spirit to persevere against an ever-looming darkness. The song rests upon the philosophical idea of Eternal Return, which the simple and repetitious lyrics seek to mirror. But even on this surface level positivity, there lurks the absurd possibility we will repeat our own destruction over and over, an echoing blast wave that shapes and divides us eternally. The goal then is to face this possibility in the mirror and choose to live in a way that will avoid this fate. To paraphrase from the poem “The Orchestra” by William Carlos Williams, we humans will either realize our darkest wish to destroy ourselves or we must change.

The Subnovas