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Eccentric Insect

from Eccentric Insect by Micah Buzan

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I was 18 when I made this. A senior in high school and feeling like an insect in a machine.

This song is about the difficulties of communication. I was shy and awkward, and often felt unable to express my self in a real-time conversation.

Do you ever talk to someone and later think of everything you should have said hours after the conversation occurred?

That's kinda what this song is. Feeling like a legless grasshopper that can't jump the way it needs to. Or insect trying to talk to humans, but the humans can't understand.

I was also inspired by Syd Barrett's albums, which expanded my thoughts about songwriting and how he would often have strange instrumental parts that flow like a stream of consciousness. That's where the crazy guitar solo in the end of the song comes from. By crazy guitar solo, I don't mean technically proficient. I mean just playing as fast as I can while trying to play notes that are sort of in tune but more so evocative of an anxiety attack.

lyrics

The time is coming but I won't be scared
the metamorphosis inside my head
down from the web to heal again
so much confusion
so little time to deal with it

The human's brain is poisonous
spitting sentences from the mouth
I wind up in a conversation
that I can't express my own thoughts

In the machine
In the machine

I'm just a legless grasshopper
wasting away in this paper bag
I'm just a legless grasshopper
wasting away

I feel to the need to keep on moving
my reflection upon the glass
there is no door that I can open
only stairs will take me down

In the machine
In the machine

I'm just a legless grasshopper
wasting away in this paper bag
I'm just a legless grasshopper
wasting away . . .

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from Eccentric Insect, released January 20, 2008

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Micah Buzan Kansas City, Missouri

I make music and animation.

I'm inspired by psychedelic, electronic, and acoustic music. I also listen to lots of retro video game soundtracks.

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