David Lucas

17 Instead of Heaven (Reprise) 17 Instead of Heaven (Reprise)

Re-consider the introduction. Make a choice.

9/8/2005 Beats General

16 A New Life 16 A New Life

This is the album's culmination. It attempts to assert that there is a light somewhere in the darkness of our inability to understand our own existence. But it fails.

9/8/2005 Acoustic Piano

15 Don't Think About Death 15 Don't Think About Death

Keep it from your mind, at any cost.

9/8/2005 Folk Rock

13 The Angel 13 The Angel

The mythology of the angel of death inspired it. Isn't it obvious? It's also track 13, in case you didn't catch that. Spooky.

9/7/2005 Renaissance

14 A Land of Slaves 14 A Land of Slaves

This a poem written by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and put to music. Modern post-industrial "slavery" inspired the adaptation.

9/7/2005 Acoustic Piano

12 Your Arrival 12 Your Arrival

The Gods are waiting. What are they waiting for? They are waiting for you to die.

9/7/2005 Acoustic Piano

11 The Sacred Form 11 The Sacred Form

Questions on the nature of God and the human relation to Him/Her/It/Nothing.

9/7/2005 Opera

08 The Breakdown 08 The Breakdown

9/4/2005 Contemporary

07 The Starving People in Africa 07 The Starving People in Africa

The feigned sensitivity of your average or not-so-average middle-class American. Do something that really helps.

9/4/2005 Acoustic Guitar

06 The Fantastic Voyage 06 The Fantastic Voyage

The transhumanist movement motived me to write this song, specifically (and obviously) Ray Kurzweil's book "Fantastic Voyage: How to Live Long Enough to Live Forever".

9/4/2005 Dance-Pop

05 Your Life is Peeling Away 05 Your Life is Peeling Away

We all feel sometimes that we are wasting our time- that our life is slipping away. So I wrote a song about it.

8/31/2005 Acoustic Piano

04 Sentenced To Die 04 Sentenced To Die

The history of capital punishment in 'civilized' socities inspired this song.

8/31/2005 Straight Ahead Blues

03 The Fear in Your Eyes 03 The Fear in Your Eyes

Everyone wants to kill another human at some point. This song gently empathizes.

8/31/2005 Acoustic Piano

02 Does It Survive? 02 Does It Survive?

Most people at some point ask themselves the question: "does my consciousness survive when my body dies?", and that's what this song does.

8/31/2005 Dance-Pop

01 Instead of Heaven 01 Instead of Heaven

Knowledge tends to confound us about death. Herein is a philosophical waxing from the perspective of quantum physics. f***ing hilarious. Admit it.

8/31/2005 Acoustic Piano

10 The Obituary of Thomas Smith 10 The Obituary of Thomas Smith

It's an obituary, put to music.

7/9/2005 Acoustic General