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 Song MeaningsINCUBUS: (Latin for "nightmare") In medieval European folklore, the incubus is a male demon (or evil spirit) who visits women in their sleep. "'Redefine' is about the creation of your own reality and your own world. The metaphor I used was humans being like Magic Markers. For so long, they painted black and white pictures in their life because that's all they thought they could do. But they can paint with a different color and make a very vibrant and beautiful picture if they take control." "In 'New Skin,' I attribute a scab to the present state of society. The way the scab looks in its worst state is gross and chaotic and horrible, that's now, but when it breaks away, there's a brand new piece of skin that's stronger than before. It's like creation out of chaos. "Idiot Box", is about TV culture. "Television, isn't good for your brain. In the song, I fantasized about a world without TV." "'My Favorite Things' is my personal beliefs about religion and how it oppresses the things I enjoy the most. Unfortunately, the simplest things, such as thinking for myself, creating my own reality and being whatever the hell I want to be each day of my life, are a sin. To be a good Christian basically means to give up the reigns of your life and let some unseen force do it for you." "Nowhere Fast", We've been exploring drum-'n'-bass here and there on stage, playing little improvisational ditties in between real songs from the records. José would start playing a drum-'n'-bass he'd made up, I'd play my didgeridoo to it, and songs started forming out of live things like that. That's how "Nowhere Fast" was written, through improvisational live jams. "Stellar", The lyrics were inspired by my lover, Joan English girl I met in France. It's about love as a transcendental feeling, like free-floating in outer space. It's kind of a traditional song in that way. "Drive", Scott [Litt] had a big hand in arranging and producing this track with us. The lyric is basically about fear, about being driven all your life by it and making decisions from fear. It's about imagining what life would be like if you didn't live it that way. "Battlestar Scralatchtica", We have two guest turntablists on this one, DJ Cut Chemist and DJ Nu-Mark. They're from Jurassic 5, a West Coast hiphop group, very good--amazing, in fact. They're friends of DJ Kilmore and this track is a three-way DJ battle. I don't know who wins, but we'd love to recreate it on stage if we ever get the opportunity. "Pardon Me", I was in a bookstore, browsing through an old Life magazine, when I saw a picture of what the article called spontaneous human combustion. There were an old guy's legs and shoes, perfectly intact...then, right around his knee area, was just a pile of charred ashes. I was going through some turmoil in my life, both good and bad, and the image struck a chord, so...I wrote a song about it.
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