The idea for this song came to me one night at a studio apartment I was renting in Phoenix, Arizona.

After working a 12-hour day as a chef at a restaurant, I came back to the studio apartment and after a shower and change of clothes, I grabbed the electric guitar and pressed record on the digital 64 mixer I was using at the time.

I would often press record on the multi-track and just play the guitar.

That night my fingers just went to a specific shape and the main riff for the song came through. I then made a basic song structure in a digital audio workstation (DAW – a software where I can upload the audio files and arrange them in the way I envision the structure of the song to be).

I then played the basic song structure back through headphones and plugged in a mic and started to just sing whatever came up. A basic melody came up. The original lyrics are not completely the same as they were at first.

Yet the main chorus of the song just came through that night, “like the rest of the world…like the rest of the world”.

The first line of the lyrics was initially communicating to a specific person at the time, how I would notice things they didn’t seem to always notice.

“Me and my mystical surf” is a reference to being a mystic in a world of NPCs or normies.

“A day full of people and things and still” must have come out from working in the restaurant and just observing the same kinda routine happening over and over with little variations here and there.

“Creating what I yearn for” was a lyric change in 2023 and was something I wanted to change it to because I was intending for the song to be a mix of something personal and also doing my best to make it with Universal themes.

The second verse of the song is commenting about the female I was dating at the time, “Do you even see me? Because this is not all I am”. The line can also be something I think most people sense in some way, “you see me yeah, yet do you really see my Unique Self yet or just your projection of what you want me to be for you?”

“We survived to live easy, yet that is not all we are, and” was mentioning my career as a chef at the time. I was receiving a lot of finances yet not fulfilled working in a restaurant.

I was working 12-hour days at the restaurant, sometimes from 6 am to midnight which was insane. That most likely influenced the line, “at times I was tired of living” because at that time I was a workaholic and basically was at the restaurant full time and only at the studio apartment to sleep or have a day off.

“A false self deep asleep” has a slight word change in 2020 when I heard Marc Gafni use and define the word “false self” and it being the unhealthy version of the separate self. “A false self deep asleep” is referencing when I was hiding in my work and not creating time or taking my Unique Risk to actually do what gives me more pleasure, meaning, and purpose in life.

“I hear all that you keep in silence, we’re not so good at hiding” is noticing the personal and collective behavior humans have to engage in magical thinking. Where we think we are clever or something by not saying anything at all, yet how we say more by saying nothing at all, and how it is sometimes obvious to ourselves or others.