This song is part of the rock opera I'm currently working on. Its working title is #jimmy (no influence from The Who here...). Its about the growing class divide in society and how the elite is weaponizing social media to placate the masses while they consolidate power for themselves.

This album uses a Greek tragedy structure to its story telling to evoke a feeling of catharsis at the end (emptiness of emotion) as our protagonist breaks free but fails to convince anyone else, and falls exhausted back to the warm comfort at the expense of a lack of freedom.

This song is the first song after the intro and serves as the anagnorisis, which is the moment that the protagonist makes the critical discovery. In this rock opera, it comes before the peripeteia (aka, the action taken by the protagonist that leads to the tragedy) which means the protagonist performs the action with full knowledge of the consequences it will entail.

This song was half written before FAWM. Majority of the lyrics and the basic structure of the music. However, I felt like getting this demo recorded was mentally blocking me from writing anything else. And of course a dozen minor changes were made while recording the demo.

#prog