#skirmish #improv #omnichord

I love writing spooky songs, they're so easy on the Omnichord--just a little Celeste and a little minor chord progression, and you're there! But I'm also a huge wimp and I'm afraid of everything.

I read a book recently that said that when you see something out of the corner of your eye and your brain assumes it's, say, a person looking at you, your brain accepts that assumption as objective reality. For that split second, for that moment, that person looking at you is REAL to you. Until you find out more info, that's a real thing.

Reality is a sandcastle of constantly-changing impossibilities built by our minds to try to process the infinitely-complex world around us.

This knowledge has messed me up a bit, as you can tell 😅 What could be scarier?

G Dm Am C/E7

Just out of the corner of my vision What is that? It looks so wild Maybe if I turn around I'll see that it's just something mild

But every time I turn I see it's something new that I can learn But in my mind there's someone there trying to spy

The things you think you see in your brain are objective reality There's a plant at my old old house that I was sure was watching me, somehow The things we think we see, to our brains, are objective reality And even though I know I know it's false I think, inside my brain, it's in my house.

And there are times when I'm all alone when I hear noises out of the corner There are times when I'm home alone And I'm sure there's something there

The sound in our mind, to our brain is objective reality The sounds in my mind are really real to me

Is there something, is there some way I can fool myself into thinking that That I'm safe?

Is there something, is there some way I can fool my mind into thinking that That I'm safe?

Could I tell myself that I am safe right now?

Is there something I can take? Is there something I could say? 'Cause it feels like this life is a mistake I'm so scared of everything In the corner of my gaze

In the corner of my mind In the corner of my gaze Is there something moving, is it fake, or is it reality?