I was playing around with this ridiculously crappy talkbox I made, decided I liked it as a lead vocal and transcribed what I thought I heard "it" saying. The resulting lyrics sounded to me like the internal dialogue of a christian android at a crossroads. So I developed a little backstory.

Setting: A not-too-distant future dystopia. Our protagonist is a benevolent malfunctioning android with a trusting, youthful personality. This android prefers the pronoun “they” not for reasons having to do with gender but because they think of themselves as plural. They have been living with one of the last surviving human beings inside some sort of home/dome/fortress from which they have been engaged in projects designed to save the remaining humans, their knowledge, their culture and institutions. Their master and creator (the android conflates his creator with Jesus) left 2 days ago on some vague but urgent mission. Something is wrong; he’s been gone too long. The android is trying to convince themselves to help investigate, to leave their fort and responsibilities behind. This is an excerpt of their conversation with themselves. #rock #improvisation #indierock #powerpop #conceptalbum