Love, just like life promulgates, persists and perpetuates in ebb and flow. Irrespective of how much we try to cling on to it, advocate its eternity or try to pin it down within the confines of comprehension, just like truth, it can only be persued and not quite attained. Though this supposed temporariness of love gives meaning to its temporality, as much the lover dearly aspires to be immoratalized in and with one's beloved, the acknowledgement of each other's mortality and the plausibility of the ephemerality of love acts as an impetus to make the best of each moment that one is able to live in love because it reverberates for a lifetime and perhaps also beyond it. This album tries to encapsulate that sentiment through the meditations of the composer on the anguish of longing, ecstasies of tears and laughter, dialogues concerning the authenticity with with one traps and is entrapped in this cosmic web of desire, as well as, the smirk of our oblivion and lack thereof.
Augenblick (fulfilled moment), the point where the escstasies of past, present and future penetrate one's being. As riddling as this concept is to wrap the songwriters' head around, he found comfort in its esoteric nature. The songwriters quest towards self-discovery and self-expression have been soothed by the thought of ascertaining and wondering "if he is making the best of this very moment". The songwriter expresses hisĀ gratitude for accepting him as he is (despite all seeming limitations and inadequecies) to his friends, family and lovers who have helped me sail through another orbit around the sun, (this song was a birthday present from the songwriter to himself and the world),. He wishes to share cheers to all everyone who successfully denied his membership to 27 club (highlighting how his love for the world is rooted in the will to sacrifice 'egotism, greed and grueling agitation' that invites suicidal tendencies in the pursuit of 'love' and lack thereof). The song writer realized the point of "creation" and being embedded in the "process of creating" as the most fulfilling experience there can be and in the hope and contemplations of creating the rhymes and rhythms of his compositions may he finds bliss and joy. Creation often becomes a point of self-negation because it demands an immersion into the process that the songwriter thought as the penultimate purpose of his life.
Ghost of a smile
Risque
21st Century Conspicuous Man
Simp's Predicament