PENKNIFE

TRAFFIC ISLAND CASTAWAY
SKIES ARE OvERCAST & GREY
SHUFFLING DOwN THESE CITY STREETS
billboards BATTLING OVER me
Pushing THROUGH THE SMoKE & WIND
i FEEL THeir STORIES in My Skin
AN ENDLESS STREAM OF SLICK MAcHINES
THAT STRESSES & DISCOMFORTS ME
SUN goes DOWN & I’m So TIRED
I CANT SLEEP MY BRAIN IS WIRED
THERES A buzzing in my EaRs
FAR AWAY + GETTING NeAR
THE SILENCE IS DEAFENING
FRONT DOOR ISNT WELCOMING
Im CRAWLING To MY TV
& NONE oF MY FRIENDS ARE CALLING

IM DOING FINE
DoINg time
STRUGGUNG TO SLEEP
PullING TeETH
IN MY PREAMS
ANIMALS eAT ME

STREETS ARe DARK & EeRIE
My eYES ARe DulL & BLEARY
IM FEEDING ON A SERIES
OF PIXELATED MEMORIES
SITTING IN A DAZE
WiTH MY SENSES FrAYED
I KEEP ScROLING ThROUGH INFINITY
See WHaT Good That Does to me
BACKGROUND NOISE NEWS FEED
CHewS ME & spits me ouT
GlUES me to tHe CeliNG
KEEPS mE oUT of My Feelings
ZONED INTO That DARK place
CHAinED to The cAve wall
PlUggED INTO THe PACkET-SWITCHING cHAOS of The soul

IM DOING TIME
ON MY LINE
TryING to READ The MiND
oN THe SCREEN
COLOURS STREAM
BUTTERFLIES EAT MY EYES

This song is about living in the city and getting oversaturated and overstimulated by the lifestyle and the industry and hard metallic movement of it all. I wrote it in Paris when i was staying in the apartment of a guy who worked as a graphic designer and come home to play video games for hours and hours and his lifestyle scared me. I also know other people who live life like this. Even i live like this to some degree, even though now i live in the countryside, my eyes still get eaten by butterfly pixels for great portions of the day.

I called it Himalaya and my friend asked me: is that because the Himalayas are holy and spiritual and the song is about the opposite?

– No, it’s because the Himalayas are cold like our bionic souls. Also the song felt like a culmination, a high point in my guitar playing and my song writing and complexity of interlinking parts (in my own opinion).

The reason the words are all capital and lowercase mixed is because i used the camera text scanner and it came out like that.