Echo Artifact

Wake up Last night I dreamed... Break up - I'll find new strings Wake up Last night I dreamed I need you But you came too sure I know I'm not sure ... too sure Breakpoint. Listen and repeat. If you want it long enough it’ll become what you need. Breakpoint. I’ll bring you up to speed. After every rainbow comes the rot and the disease. Everything up until now has a filter. Everything up until now has been tilted, shifted Easy up: get lifted; drift with it; pick gifted. Paint a picture of transition; Rediscover new beginnings. But if you never “act now” include ‘oblivious indecisions’ Now, if we listen to tradition Not every lesson needs invention. If you are what drives your illness Separate. A new division. Where do we go when we go inside? Somewhere safe from the landslide? Somewhere better than your own head “Nothing but old ghosts and broken parts”, she said. What do we know about letting go? Nothing but short steps in an undertow. Don’t lose sleep. Take it slow. What do you think it would take to get you through? What will it take to make you new? If you get there first, save seats for two I’m not the one. They’re both for you. Breakpoint. Listen and believe. If you need it long enough it’ll consume what you bleed. Breakpoint. I’ll bring you to release. It’s the rainbow that brings all the rot; the disease. Everything up until now is a flicker. Everything up and then “how” doesn’t fit her Doesn’t get her. “Stay down” doesn’t fit her Doesn’t shift her; stay with her Paint a picture of admission; rediscover intuition But if you never “act now” don’t expect her to resist her resistors Now, if we listen to tradition Not every lesson needs revision. If you are what drives your illness Separate. Create derision. Where do we go when we go inside? Somewhere safe from the landslide? Somewhere better than your own head “Nothing but old ghosts and broken parts”, she said. What do we know about letting go? Nothing but short steps in an undertow. Don’t lose sleep. Take it slow. echoartifact.com/musicfrompicture Recorded at Traxler Studios (2025)

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I can't I can't tell By myself Lie Small and frail By myself I think I can manage it Sigh I should tell you Think we would've thought of this We don't need you We don't see you ending up a part of this We don't think the same of what we used to think of happiness Intrinsic, she starts "You think we would've thought of this" Why I never found my way again What would you know about trust? What would you do to get what you want? What would you know about truth? When will it be enough proof to refute What you already know? I think you should go Where would you be when the cut's not enough? What then would they say about us? Unusual how it matters so much It's hard to predict when your god's out of touch What would you know about blood? What would you do if you could? What have you done for me that I couldn't do for myself If I didn't need your help? Not yet Breathe in slow Let dark parts grow We don't know why you care I know why there's nothing there I can't (do this anymore) I can't tell (you) By myself (I) Lie (to me again) Small and frail (I am) By myself I (don't) think I can manage it Sigh (again, to me again) I should tell you Think we would've thought of this (before we fell down) We don't need you We don't see you ending up a part of this We don't think the same of what we used to think of happiness Intrinsic, she starts "You think we would've thought of this" echoartifact.com/musicfrompicture Recorded at Traxler Studios (2025)

Never does it go to show In the throes of hope will we try to feel alive We mind, but we're fine Easier than rope But no choke starts without a fire But we try to seem fine all the time (all the time) Tell her how you told me at home You'd hold me close until we died while you drive We decide to try to try Leaving what you know makes it hard to feel the tide This time This time I won't fall for this These short step relationships Star-studded pools I can't resist But too deep to swim against this time This time I'll pretend that my will contends Twist my tongue until it rips Bright blue apocalypse There is no innocence This time This tide In rhyme This time This time This time Calling all cars of the lovers who are all Sitting still on the open road Thinking old scars will appeal to the heart Of a thrill that you do not know You don't want more You just want a war in me Slipping on tiles of reality is fine If you haven't got a place to go Going for a ride just as long as it subsides By the time that we get back for the show You don't want less You just want what's left in me The center of the earth can be anywhere you are, you know The center of the earth can be anywhere you are, you know Separating sides of the argument is wise If you favor everyone the same But no one is the wiser if we settle on a slider Regulating who will win the blame You don't have need All of your greed in me The center of the earth can be anywhere you are, you know The center of the earth can be anywhere you are, you know The center of the earth can be anywhere you are, you know Wait for me I can't see Leaving what you know, familiarity in tow, Makes the shore hard to call by name Leveraging your hold for a better bit of gold Leaves you hurting for it all the same You don't have a grip Dig your fingertips in me Calling all cars of the lovers who are all More toxic than we might have known Celebrating scars like they represent a part Of ourselves that we ought to show Wait for me I can't see The center of the earth can be anywhere you are, you know The center of the earth can be anywhere you are, you know The center of the earth can be anywhere you are, you know The center of the earth can be anywhere you are, you know Wait for me I can't see I can't see... Leaving what you know makes it hard to feel the tide Even if it's best for the sake of you and I Breaking hearts and bones takes a toll on every life but, Something here brings me piece tonight Wait for me I can't see Repetition centered Just off screen echoartifact.com/musicfrompicture Recorded at Traxler Studios (2025)

Do you think it matters? Does it really matter, Honey? If it doesn't shatter, does it really matter, Bunny? Empty when full I know you don't know that I know this won't last - Where do you think we go When we recede to shallow? Maybe it's best if we never know We are nothing We are nothing new I don't think you know that I know this can't last forever (Inevitable truth: We are what we consume) I am nothing new Break me in two A vessel without use What makes you think I choose? We are what we consume I am something true I am nothing new I don't need any more I don't know what it means to be whole I am nothing new echoartifact.com/musicfrompicture Recorded at Traxler Studios (2025)

Calling all cars of the lovers who are all Sitting still on the open road Thinking old scars will appeal to the heart Of a thrill that you do not know You don't want more You just want a war in me Slipping on tiles of reality is fine If you haven't got a place to go Going for a ride just as long as it subsides By the time that we get back for the show You don't want less You just want what's left in me The center of the earth can be anywhere you are, you know The center of the earth can be anywhere you are, you know Separating sides of the argument is wise If you favor everyone the same But no one is the wiser if we settle on a slider Regulating who will win the blame You don't have need All of your greed in me The center of the earth can be anywhere you are, you know The center of the earth can be anywhere you are, you know The center of the earth can be anywhere you are, you know Wait for me I can't see Leaving what you know, familiarity in tow, Makes the shore hard to call by name Leveraging your hold for a better bit of gold Leaves you hurting for it all the same You don't have a grip Dig your fingertips in me Calling all cars of the lovers who are all More toxic than we might have known Celebrating scars like they represent a part Of ourselves that we ought to show Wait for me I can't see The center of the earth can be anywhere you are, you know The center of the earth can be anywhere you are, you know The center of the earth can be anywhere you are, you know The center of the earth can be anywhere you are, you know Wait for me I can't see I can't see... echoartifact.com/musicfrompicture Recorded at Traxler Studios (2025)

Leaving what you know makes it hard to feel the tide Even if it's best for the sake of you and I Breaking hearts and bones takes a toll on every life but, Something here brings me peace tonight Wait for me I can't see Repetition centered Just off screen echoartifact.com/musicfrompicture Recorded at Traxler Studios (2025)

This time I won't fall for this These short step relationships Star-studded pools I can't resist But too deep to swim against this time This time I'll pretend that my will contends Twist my tongue until it rips Bright blue apocalypse There is no innocence This time This tide In rhyme This time This time This time echoartifact.com/musicfrompicture Recorded at Traxler Studios (2025)

I am nothing new I am nothing new Picture great things soon I don't need any more I don't know what it means to be whole I am nothing new I am nothing new Break me in two A vessel without use What makes you think I choose? We are what we consume I am something true Fake these instance interludes People only offer to intrude Why does it matter if I do? I am nothing new I don't think you know that I know this can't last forever (Inevitable truth: We are what we consume) Where do you think we go When we recede to shallow? Does it matter if we never know? We are nothing new I don't think you know that I know this can't last forever Do you think it matters? Does it really matter, Honey? If it doesn't shatter, does it really matter, Bunny? Empty when full I know you don't know that I know this won't last forever (Do you think it matters? Empty when full.) echoartifact.com/musicfrompicture Recorded at Traxler Studios (2025)

Never does it go to show In the throes of hope will we try to feel alive We mind, but we're fine Easier than rope But no choke starts without a fire But we try to seem fine all the time (all the time) Tell her how you told me at home You'd hold me close until we died while you drive We decide to try to try Leaving what you know makes it hard to feel the tide This time echoartifact.com/musicfrompicture Recorded at Traxler Studios (2025)

I don't know what you remember about all of this, but I do. I remember all of it. Everything, and sometimes nothing. Nothing And what is nothing? It's everything, right? What does that make us? Such a beautiful collection of nothings made you everything to me. But why? And why did we settle? What do we do now? I can't see anything here. Careful what you wish for: Old ghosts on which to lay the blame And I don't think he knows my name Easier than rope, but no... What makes you think I choose this joke? Barely a resistor: A fear on which to set a flame And I don't think he knows my name ...Not yet... I can't do this anymore Give me a restrictor: A silhouette of guilt and shame And I don't think she feels the same And know he doesn't know my name Careful what you wish for 'Cuz I don't know we know our place If tide has no pull then war will assume That you and I are nothing new And settle for the poison moon That I can't see from on my knees Breakpoint. Breakpoint. Please. .com/musicfrompicture Recorded at Traxler Studios (2025)

Mary, Mary, quite contrary How does your garden grow? With weeds and leaves under scattered trees All broken glass below Mary, Mary, dearest faerie Why does your garden rot? Because we reap of what we sow And rainbows cost a lot Mary, baby, that sounds crazy Rainbows come for free Nothing's free and if you ask me The rainbows bring disease But Mary, please, with broken knees I can't see the forest for the trees For we don't see, we feel Sophistication of the breeze Mary, Mary, all I barely Need is you and me With severed limbs and bobby pins We'll live a life of ease And if without our best intents Our greed's obliged to be Another misappropriation Of an emotional sleeve But when we find ourselves adrift As if a life at sea, I'll reel us back to shore again With flowers, birds, and bees So, Mary, thoroughly contrary, How does your garden grow? It doesn't, but then again, If one never lets it show One never really knows Which way the tide will flow And where we fit below The current undertow echoartifact.com/musicfrompicture Recorded at Traxler Studios (2025)

Well I never Sever, sever with me all our ties Rip this stitch in time (rewind) Sink in this doubt and we might fall Rather that we tried (reprise) Moving all tides A thousand histories resign We weaponize Well I never Clever, clever better break me from all sides Bit by brick collide (retry) Teething, bleeding, pleading, heaving with you by (bye) the by Make me compromise (remind) Well I never Moving all tides A thousand histories resign We weaponize Choosing our sides Breaking down in strides We weaponize Well I never saw you coming back again Easy for you to say I won't Fractures are better left alone Do you feel like letting go? Well I never Sever, sever with me all our ties Wary that we might We weaponize echoartifact.com/partials Recorded at Traxler Studios (2018)

I, I try I, I find I, I try I, I mind I won't let this go I want you to know I won't let this go (near backflow) I want you to know (down we go) I, I try echoartifact.com/partials Recorded at Traxler Studios (2018)

As if it is as up to me as I can say For me to be of it, of love as clay If who to him was she to them Where monsters are instead of men Belittling our souls this very day If who was down then what was up With when as much as one can trust As if we met who would we be Without much need for empathy But by the if we hoped for much dismay As if it is as up to me as I can say echoartifact.com/partials Recorded at Traxler Studios (2018)

What can I say? I'm a lush But I'm good at it What can I say? It's a rush But I'm sure that it pays to be on time Lately I don't mind What else can I say? I'm alone But I'm good at it To keep me in a way that I know I've a bad habit of not saying goodbye Truly I don't mind If I say what I need, would I say that I need you to save me? (Save me) When would I break? What's enough? When the eyes have it? What would it take? Make believe all kinds when I'm Diminished in my mind Delayed reaction times If I say what I need, would I say that I need you to save me? If I stay and I bleed to erase the sting of safety To betray this disease would I break into what has made me? Every single time Almost... never mind If I say what I need, would I say that I need you to save me? If I stay and I bleed to erase the sting of safety To betray this disease would I break into what has made me? Plastic all the time Friendly-fire blind Delayed reaction time echoartifact.com/partials Recorded at Traxler Studios (2018)

Until We Met echoartifact.com/partials Recorded at Traxler Studios (2018)

From the original opera, CPU echoartifact.com/cpu_opera I see your name written down In a word, alone I see no need to be found In this world alone And I won’t find myself in time Tell me something I don’t already know Our last story will be surrender Deny everything and leave her Out of my mind (nothing) I, with this clock ticking down, Create a world of tones I’ll end this automated sound And we’ll wash ashore And we won’t mind this gap in time Feel me disappear. It’s already done. This task the only space between us Defines now our only weakness I am alive (nothing) Out of my mind (nothing changes me) I found you where I found myself Out of my mind I’ll bring this game crashing down To a pile of stones Raining destruction abound Only skin and bones And if we find ourselves in time We’ll abandon hope. We’re never getting home. Sound warnings defeat her It notes everything and remembers I found you where I found myself I found you where we last exhaled At least she’ll know I died trying I found you where I found my - I found you where I found myself I found you where we last exhaled I found you where we’re drowning At least she’ll know I died fighting Out of my mind (nothing changes me) Recorded at Traxler Studios (2016)

From the original opera, CPU echoartifact.com/cpu_opera There’s just one thing in my mind, Do you love me all the time? And I’m not sure why I need to know, I just do Do you? Do you love me girl? I think you do As do all things heal in time, Do you trust me? Will we survive? And I’m not sure if I can stand to know When we’re through Do you? Do you love me girl? I think you do As I told you outside, Could you love me through this demise? The only one thing that I seem to know is I love you Do you? Do you love me girl? I think you do Recorded at Traxler Studios (2016)

From the original opera, CPU echoartifact.com/cpu_opera Further down the relay is a step I’m going to miss, A message I won’t be involved with Cancel these words and slow my tongue There won’t be much left when I’m done I’d never ever rather come running back from this Undefined intentions make me want to mention All I ever thought of you I’m just not in 2 Saying goodbye to this time Further down the relay is a step I’m going to miss, A message I won’t be involved with Fortify these walls and break my limbs All these final moments depend On you ever waking up from this I can’t continue, friend Break down these days one by one All that we have left is undone (No) No one walks away from this I can’t shake this feeling in my bones Like you’re in my hands and we’re – Further down the relay is a step I’m going to miss, A message I won’t be involved with Codify these words and sheath my gun Nothing will be left when we’re done Our time expires just after these messages run You can’t stop this chain reaction – only time can give us traction Why we never thought this through My clever head has failed us both But I (I) won’t go without you I can’t shake this feeling in my bones Like you’re in my hands and we’re – (Further down the relay is a step I’m going to miss, A message I won’t be involved with) I can’t fight this feeling in my bones Like we’re in my head and we’re already gone How much do you think we can('t) see before we realize that we’re gone? Recorded at Traxler Studios (2016)

From the original opera, CPU echoartifact.com/cpu_opera I’ll return to earth in time With your heartbeat next to mine. How irregular it grows When at last we know. Lest we make a change within We cannot make amends. As if distant rhythms should collide, Our pulsars realign Heartbeat heartbeat pounding through me, The sound of our last light corroding. We will surely break, break apart in time. If we never reinvent, Termination imminent. As if we could ever synchronize, Our pulsars misalign When we make mistakes again Elaborate our giving in As if distant rhythms should collide, Our pulsars realign Recorded at Traxler Studios (2016)

From the original opera, CPU echoartifact.com/cpu_opera This is love This is love Tried and true (Black and blue) This is what He’ll come home to (Our armor see-through) This is love This is not A secret drug she’s dreaming of (Broken wings from above) This is us Biting and screaming for the sun (With our severed tongues) This is love As that sure thing we’ll not find Save the replay in your mind When the hardware won’t rewind Break in 2… 1… This is love Recorded at Traxler Studios (2016)

From the original opera, CPU echoartifact.com/cpu_opera As I lie in wait the screen will load. Why try perpetuate the episode? I know just how far this will go. Watch me chase her down a rabbit hole. She stays folding constant memory Like tape, all that’s left is shimmering. Losing and over-clocking all that we Won’t leave now witnessing through history. Just numbers in the cloud No signal to the ground I wait calculating entropy (while) She slips into something misery. We are so far along the plot erodes. Witness all at once the overload. Just numbers in the cloud No reason to be found Six chambers in the round Let’s find our way down As she tries to stop the sound I stay – partition partial memory Someday duplicate my apathy. She states “You only want what you can see” I’ll create a better virus to release. Stage 1 – dissolve the casing carefully Stage 2 – deploy the virus properly Stage 3 – This strain of poison digital Now breathe – The devastation: critical It shakes pixelating visually. We break – electronic shattering. Reshape the virus out of misery. She will reboot a better part of me. Just numbers in the cloud No reason to be found Six chambers in the round Let’s find our way down. We are. We are all a part of this. (We are, we are.) We all, we all fall apart at this. (We are, we are.) We all. We all had a part in this. (We are, we are.) We are. We are all a part of this. (We are, we are.) Like children in the crowd Left screaming this aloud Six chambers in the ground We’ve found our way… She fakes replicating part of me. Retake deploy the virus constantly. We make a first-world catastrophe. She breaks self-importing gravity. Create self-revolving memory. We are all that’s left in front of me. We drown celebrating gravity. Recorded at Traxler Studios (2016)