promiseland
The intro song to glass, setting the scene / world building. The place created is one that seems calm on the surface, but the silence that has been created is a direct causation of the destruction before it. A feeling of an open yet still claustrophobic space, one that remains full with background hints of a warm beach, brought with recording techniques to make it feel. promiseland will make you feel like you are at the beach on a sunny day, but lying on the bottom of the ocean looking up wishing you were there instead.
I come from the south side where they feel with their liquor
Drink this and let the body flicker
Water drips on your tongue like honey
Everybody in their sundress, sunny
Everybody in their sundress in their sundress and it's sunny out x2
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I need to feel the ground from underground
I need to run right now, cuz i think i'm upside down x2
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Ooh baby you got your toes in the sand
Can't you see were living in the promiseland
Oh lady blow me over like a ceiling fan
Just maybe were living in the promiseland x2
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I need someone to hold me, I know, hear that a thousand times
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Welcome welcome welcome to the world that doesn't love you
Theres a lot of trouble out there but there's safety in this bubble
There's a home inside there's pearly gates no they will never crumble if You stay inside and just abide know you will never stumble, welcome Welcome to the promise land, we're here to lend a helping hand, ocean Waters holy water melt your problems in the sand, lay down and get a Tan, no need to have a plan, and there's no need to take a stand and There's no need to start a band, there's no need to start a band
instant karma
A fast departure from the previous tracks. Bringing a faster paced, heartbeat like drive, still clinging on to the waviness of the first two songs before it. Instant karma is the other side of the coin of bummer, and a direct counterpoint to promiseland, bringing almost demonic qualities, as if you were being possessed by an evil groovy spirit in your very own bathroom. A battle between good and evil, and coming to the realization that being bad can feel really good. The lyrics detail a man struggling with addiction, as his inner demons “take over” and he is morphered into what he swore he wouldn't be.
bummer of the summer
The title implies a sad feeling but only during an otherwise happy time. Sunny days mixed with ever fleeting tranquility, leaving in its place dread of the unknown. A feeling of sitting in a cathedral with all the blinds closed, only letting small amounts of light, whilst a mass huddles close together and sings hymns. The emptiness combined with the warmth was the key element of this song, revealing what occurs on the inside may not be what is displayed on the surface. Starting off with a mellow and hollow bass and drum beat, then eventually crescendoing into a fully fledged chorus for the finale, full of strings and even an ekg monitor. The lyrics detail a lost love, one who has forgotten about the protagonist on a dime, leaving them without a proper goodbye.
Sorry sweetheart
I don’t know if she's here or not
I guess that she must've missed you
Well shit she must've forgot
She's very busy and I
Guess she wouldn't miss me
My eyes are feeling misty
How could she forget me
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Blank space nothing is occupied
Each day I feel empty inside
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Bless yourself with your holy water
Hang your jacket when you go
I try to keep myself from falling
Into something I don't know
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Please stay clear cuz I
Don't want you near while I
Figure out a little doubt
‘Bout some water and a drought
And how it’s still here
Trepidation across the nation
Bleeds intoxication from all the medication
The complication of conversation
Imma need to read it in a new translation
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Sorry sweetheart
You must be so distraught
Last I heard, she left the city
Try sending a forget-me-not
Better watch out for the sundown
There's no easy way to fall asleep
Picture perfect on the comedown
Watching karma create comedy
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Sedated like and animal
On my bathroom floor
On my bathroom floor
Not sure what put me here
But I want more yeah
I want more
Cries of helter skelter right beyond the doorway
I don’t think Ill get up Just the thought makes me sore yeah
I don't wanna stumble down the hallway
I wasn’t gonna fix myself anyway
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Ooh ooh
Come in come and get your karma
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No false idols no true witness
Lost my vitals and my money
Online fishnets got me swimming
Deep in abyss
Travesty
Abandon my ship
Clocking out for my shift
Water always reaches the bottom
Aint gotta wait for it
Who you thinking that karma aint gonna’ catch you
Karma shoot ya
Karma Sutra
Mother nature's back turned
Heart racing
Gon catch you escaping
Too old to be happy
Too young to just die
Got the shovel in my own hands
I'd rather bury myself alive
stuck 2u
An empty ocean floor. Absolutely massive yet desolate. Feeling so close to something you desperately need but it's just out of reach. By the time you look again it’s a million miles away, too far to ever reach. This is the most climacteric point of the ep, defining the lowest moments one has. A romanticism of death and burning out with a white hot glow. Stuck feels like you can't move and are ever so slowly being enveloped in heavy water. Neither struggling or staying still will resolve the issue that's enclosing you. Stuck is about a pivotal point you wish you could change about yourself yet defines you. Claustrophobic and suffocating yet so tremendously immense you will never climb your way out because there will never be a way out of a bottomless pit without a line to pull out of.
questions
The title itself reveals the contents. The song brings up the question of why even fall in love at all? What is the point of doing so when you know it will just hurt you in the end, when you could instead just take one night stands and fake friends. A song about giving up control. An anthemic ballad about finding true love and purposefully self sabotaging fearing a recreation of past relationships, knowing you'll get hurt either way. Picture a post apocalyptic dark discotheque where In the end, sometimes it's better to be lonely together than be left to your own thoughts.
Heartbreak will kill you in a minute if you let it
True friends are the only ones to waste your time
Bless yourself and let it out, bleed it out and let it go yeah,
Id fall in love but sorry I dont got the time
Just let the water flow, by yourself when your alone x2
Who knows just where it goes, cuz when it goes the water flows x2
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You're so lonely, lonely like, x4
Oooh, like me
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You think true loves bound to happen just forget it
True friends they will change just pay it no mind,
Just let the water flow, by yourself when you're alone
Who knows just where it goes, cuz when it goes the water flows
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Washed in bleach and candied love
Vacuum sealed, forever young
Vanilla bleeds heart made with milk,
A crown of thorns thats spun from silk,
Gated warehouse is underground
The inner feelings are just tossed around
Holy sermon, of getting down,
When I arrive there I won't be found,
shining son
I watch the world change colors
In some odd way or another
And less loan more discovered
That there's still more to a lover
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Change your lover
X8
Cuz im stuck on a lover
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Stuck on lover
Still kinda love her
Stuck on a lover
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Who am I to judge the living and the dead
In my own head
I think that you make me feel
I'm stuck on a lover
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Im here to much
Feel like a stuck
On a record playing and playing
And staying and staying
On the same one part
I need a jumpstart
Of a lifetime
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A bittersweet finale. A stream of sun after a storm when the black clouds are drifting into the distance, only to reveal the destruction that it had caused. A rebuilding period has begun, and along with it brings sadness for what was lost, but joy to build stronger. Shining son is raw and dreamlike, shimmery and soft. An early morning on a hillside, away from all the things that cause you pain, at least temporarily. The difficulties have subsided now but the aching remains. A sobering moment and a breath of peace and fresh air.
Your mind is mowing meadows
As you run through the bathroom door
Staring right back at you is an undistinguished beast
We are really never who we seem
You break the glass revealing the eyes of someone that you know
I know you are here
I can feel you coming up the steps to meet me
for the very first time it feels like
The beast inside me hides
Cuz I know what an angry father feels like
I swore that i'm not him
I kiss you on your little blonde head twice
I see my same eyes when I lift up your chin and I pray
Pray you won't be me
Cuz there's so many better things to be
Im so gone
I'm so undone
I wanna feel your breath
I wish my mother was here to hug me
And say in the winter time
Where does my shining son go