I to the Storm
Release date: coming soon
The need we have to be seen and recorded in order to feel like we matter resulting in becoming caricatures of ourselves.
Disconnect from an experience if not captured/recorded. Angst to prove to others that the experience was real hence detracting from the actual experience.
Default inner sense of worthlessness.
Shallow hits of dopamine encouraging unhealthy habits that replace genuine human connection.
Feeling uncomfortable in own skin via the perceived judgement of others where as a woman, typical feminine traits get looked down on or underestimated and equated to stupidity.
Seeking out balance in oneself of both feminine and masculine traits to continue to unlock improved levels of thinking and understanding.
Confrontation with the inherent need for external validation.
Remaining in victimisation instead of overcoming.
Getting comfortable with being alone.
Continuous effort to reprogram the mind for self-validation and self-development.
Men being pressured by society to lose their masculine traits rather than developing those areas whilst also finding wisdom in their emotional side and putting in hard effort to further understand and validate their feminine traits without losing their grounding as a male.
Mistaking fantastical, obsessive passion with love and being driven by those innate chemicals unless disillusioned or irrationally disappointed.
Pressure to breed to continue the genetic string and please those before us who went by that script.
The over-abundance of parentless kids who desperately need hope but are separated by bureaucratic oceans from those who want to be their family.
Knowing there is brutality and injustice in the world but risk of becoming too aware or too involved and bringing about deep depression, despair or insanity.
Mock and bitter apathy and indifference.
Giving in to the inevitability of uncontrollable, scary events and forces beyond our comprehension.
Note back:
When I say ‘replace it with trash’ in my lyrics, I’m referring to humans who have lost their ability to become quality humans due to being beaten down by public stigma(it’s that simple really). Some of you may decide to take this song as an attack on transgenderism, it’s not, as there are those who genuinely go the hard mile to change their appearance by whatever means just like we do to upkeep beauty and youth etc or those who just want to express themselves in a way that has become socially acceptable. I accept that, they are here and are real with the same self-consciousness that come with being a human and complexity and nuances that comes with existing.
However, I do have a problem with indoctrinating kids from a young, very confusing and influential age that if they feel uncomfortable in their own body, they can get life altering surgery and injected with hormones to change into the opposite sex and normalising that, rather than encouraging self-acceptance of the body in which they were born and teaching them methods of being comfortable with discomfort which promotes resilience and strength. It’s actually normal to feel uncomfortable in one’s own body especially for those who are more genetically predisposed or environmentally prone to anxiety.
We focus so much on our external presentation rather than doing the internal work coz the internal work is difficult, elusive and not apparent straight away(and it’s in our nature to follow the compass based on external responses championing us on in whatever trajectory), making things even more fucking confusing.
Yeah of course there would be the less common cases of those born with both genitalia or those who have put in the time and fully developed consideration after careful deliberation to go ahead and transition - that’s totally cool and it is fascinating/interesting but that narrative shouldn’t be forced upon the whole. We shouldn’t feel shame for using the word ‘guys’ or being afraid of misgendering someone where it’s unclear, hence afraid to speak and just afraid of one's own standing in society. I’ve even previously been involved with groups who no longer see the word ‘girl’ as a respectful word to describe a female - even the word ‘female’!? which has absolutely baffled me and makes me think we have way too much time on our hands in our bubble to the rest of the world.
No, i’m not a right winger. There’s never any long term good in dogmatically following one extreme or the other. Balance is key to everything.
Finally, as someone who has always struggled with speech and dialogue, I do see the importance of it and am an avid believer of freedom of speech and I sure as shit hope I never lose that freedom.