The worst dream I’ve ever had…
I don't even know if I want to talk about the worst dream I've ever had.
It’s like teeth growing out.
Ah, it was gorey.
It was a lot of weird things going on.
So kind of like alien style dreams.
I remember in the studio, we kind of had like a projection on the piano I was playing and
there was waves crashing and we were watching 'Ghost In A Shell' and all these things and
I don't know.
It just evoked this feeling.
And I just imagined me running away from, I don't know, something.
For me, it's just the repetitive nature of it.
And the the hypnotic nature of it.
It acts as a musical bedding or a musical idea.
The concept of it was that I'm in a dreamworld.
There's people following me and they kind of just represent me.
Or me running away from fears or things I hide deep in my psyche.
It was like "don't hurt me", essentially.
But instead of it being a weapon, I replaced it with paint.
The writing is not sensical.
It's more so how I see it.
I guess, I write things like a movie scene.
I kind of see the camera angle and there is someone sort of shaking me out...
I don't know, a birdseye view of my bed.
So there is that thing of someone there to save you from yourself.
Or to wake you up out of the dream.
You never really know where... It's like a dog chasing it's tail.
You never really know where it ends.
I think with this song, I really did try and think about my vocal tone.
Sometimes it's kind of cathartic, because I genuinely put a lot of passion behind it.
I guess I was kind of inspired, as well, by Nina Simone, “Sinnerman.”
Talking from the angle of someone who's either done something wrong
Or something and they're kind of being chased. Sort of like that feeling.
I did press-ups or I’d go for a little run in the booth.
I was genuinely running out of breath while I was singing those lyrics.
You know, not addressing what it is that you're running away from.
It doesn't stay static.
It kind of will affect you.
If something's bleeding you, that's obviously not good for you.
So, it's kind of just a metaphor for something is bleeding in you.
Something is wrong.
I don't necessarily think of the words.
I don't write the words. I'm actually talking out.
They just fly out of my mouth
And sometimes you just get in the zone and try to build an environment where your mind
is free to get into a flow.
Sometimes when I'm writing, that's kind of what happens.
I sit at the piano and my mind releases these things I don't even necessarily confront on
my day to day.