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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.
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.
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.
04 Sentenced To Die
04 Sentenced To Die
The history of capital punishment in 'civilized' socities inspired this song.
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.
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".
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.
10 The Obituary of Thomas Smith
10 The Obituary of Thomas Smith
It's an obituary, put to music.
11 The Sacred Form
11 The Sacred Form
Questions on the nature of God and the human relation to Him/Her/It/Nothing.
12 Your Arrival
12 Your Arrival
The Gods are waiting. What are they waiting for? They are waiting for you to die.
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.
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.
15 Don't Think About Death
15 Don't Think About Death
Keep it from your mind, at any cost.
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.
17 Instead of Heaven (Reprise)
17 Instead of Heaven (Reprise)
Re-consider the introduction. Make a choice.
