Here's another song.

›› Stage Fifteen.mp3

I came up with this idea while mounting flowers for electron microscopy--in order to see the flower structure you have to very carefully remove the sepals and other floral organs under a dissecting microscope. I thought it would be cool to make a creepy-yet-triumphant sort of story out of the concept. I had the lyrics in my head for quite a while before I recorded anything, since I was quite fond of them and wanted to make a finished song with which I was just as happy. During the laborious task of painting my bathroom (it took many many coats to cover that wallpaper), the song incubated and my mind followed the various paths of meaning the simple lyric could take, and I was pretty intrigued by the metaphors I came up with. The finished product, as I'm always saying, has its moments.