⚠️ TRIGGER WARNING — SET LIST ONE — GLASS HALF SOMETHING Lead Rating: PG/PG-13 | GX Points: 19 Set List One explores identity formation, addiction, emotional isolation, disillusionment with systems, and the early fractures that shape a person's inner life. While much of the material is reflective and poetic, several tracks contain themes that may be distressing for some listeners, especially when taken as a continuous arc. ADDICTION AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE Climbing the Ladder maps the full drug escalation arc — from cigarettes to crack-cocaine — in explicit inventory form. Have Not depicts morphine dependency and motivational collapse. Exit the Sandman references drowning sorrows in drink. These portrayals are introspective rather than graphic, but do not sanitize consequences. DEPRESSION AND PSYCHOLOGICAL EXHAUSTION Daylight Again depicts being trapped in a tunnel, circled by sharks, unable to rise. Exit the Sandman addresses insomnia and mental exhaustion. The cumulative arc across all 12 tracks documents slow psychological fracture. EXISTENTIAL FATIGUE AND HOPELESSNESS Have Not: "Why try to live the dream when your imagination is gone?" Pen and Paper: "Just want it to end." These are not crisis moments — they are ambient despair, sustained across multiple tracks. MEDIA CRITIQUE / SOCIAL CONDITIONING Puzzle Pieces and Monetization address systemic manipulation, corporate capture of media and truth, and the psychological cost of a monetized world. ROMANTIC DISILLUSIONMENT Ex-Poem and Twisting the Knife address betrayal and the deliberate withholding of contact. Neither glorifies harm but neither offers resolution. FAMILY DYSFUNCTION AND GENERATIONAL ADDICTION Climbing the Ladder includes a stutter-voiced father, a nicotine-addicted mother, an alcoholic brother, and a sister referenced with crude humor. Brief but sharp. This set is contemplative rather than explosive — it doesn't shock so much as it lingers. It documents the early stages of fracture, awareness, and resistance before collapse or clarity fully arrive. No explicit suicide, graphic violence, or sexual content. Listener discretion advised.

SET LIST 1 — GLASS HALF SOMETHING 1. Puzzle Pieces 2. Exit the Sandman 3. Daylight Again 4. Pen and Paper 5. Have Not 6. Climbing the Ladder 7. Ex-Poem 8. Rain ⚠️ (first two stanzas — partial) 9. Twisting the Knife 10. My Precious 11. Monetization 12. Let Me In (1) PUZZLE PIECES The newspapers have all gone Been blown away in the wind The magazines have all been bought up Turned to ads for corporate spin As the radio repeats itself So much so that you stopped listening And TV... well not much has changed... It's still the same as it's always been We both look at each other As loneliness starts creeping in Once upon a time we like brothers Now we feel lucky just to be friends All the signs during these times Have been put up to lead us astray So that our views become skewed So that we see the world in a different way For our bonds are becoming broken With every smile that our face keeps hid Every hello that remains unspoken This world becomes a tougher place in which to live Because everything that for ourselves we take Becomes something that someone else can't give So we better think twice about the choices we make Before it's too late to change this state we're living in That's why I'm moving and shaking Been busy trying to stir things up a bit Rearranging this big jigsaw puzzle So that all the pieces fit (2) EXIT THE SANDMAN So the midnight oil Seems to be burning again The sandman's at your door But he can't come in With so much trying your mind Tonight he's not your friend Since there's so much You're still trying to find Before your time comes to an end You used to dream about today But that was back then... Back when... You smiled as a child... Before you got sucked in Back when... You always shared and never cared... About the color of somebody's skin Back when... You didn't try to solve all your problems With the bottom of a bottle Drowning up your sorrows in a pool of sin Back when... You still had time to let the road unwind But now your patience is wearing thin Exit the sandman Why not see it from the other side? Other side... Doin' the best I can, man And that ain't no lie... that ain't no lie (3) DAYLIGHT AGAIN Daylight again… Comes now and again My only friend… That's left in the end The shadows hide as the clouds creep by I take stake in my mistakes in The life I know the one I can't shake Grabs me by the collar and won't let me go There's only one way to live there's only one way I know I've been taken… I've been shaken And sent out on my way I have tumbled… I have stumbled Just going from day to day The only sunrise ahead Is the one I see when I go to bed I wake up in the dark circled by sharks So I cover my head until there's daylight again I'm trapped in a tunnel while sucked down the funnel The light is dim in either direction When you're only trying to escape and be safe There's no time for perfection From day to day to year to year Somehow, some way I'll get outta here Where I stand my feet are stuck in the mud There's no chance I can rise above With bars on the doors I can't climb out My guide left me when the candle blew out I came to my sense and that was when I knew I'd be down here until there's daylight again Daylight again Daylight again Daylight again (4) PEN AND PAPER Well I'm... Struggling against the tide Pen and paper by my side Feeling great, oh wait, I lied There's not much I trust And that sucks, but why cry? Seems that something's Gonna have to be sacrificed To keep on playing this game To keep on living this life Release me From the worldwide weight of humanity Too much for this writer to decipher The many causes of insanity He pauses...then continues As he counts his losses... His inner voice asks him, "Is it in you?" To be the leader when it is so easy to follow Never need to be the owner When everything can be borrowed Though you'll never find Yourself being a loner You just might be hollow And it's such a waste of time... Following the blind Open up your eyes Haven't you realized? 'Tis better to lead them... And still be breathing Than it is to follow And be the one left bleeding Well I've got those Same old blues again It seems that life is game You can never win Cannot change your past You can't change where you've been Now labeled a has-been You got no friends Just want it to end Let your soul be recast Let us try it again (5) HAVE NOT You only live once... Well at least you've got your name You tried to give once... Got burnt and you were never the same Stay away from this one... You who went from healing to being one of the lame Thy will be done... The only thing you've learned is how to point the blame And now your motivation for waking is slowly stripping You can sense the tubes of morphine still dripping Becoming lost at such a cost That you wonder just Why you should go on Why try to live the dream? When your imagination is gone? For once you lose your inhibitions The hands around you mold you into what they want Shaping and persuading you Into giving what you haven't got Leveling society By changing you from a have into a have not You only live once... Well at least you've got your name (6) CLIMBING THE LADDER You'd be wise to take my advice Before you fall in love With a fool's paradise You had better think twice I don't have any vices And that's priceless Considering where I've come from Everything I once believed in Was so misleading I'm lucky I'm still breathing Considering all the things I've done I scaled the drug ladder Straight to the top Got up so high I almost couldn't get off From cigarettes... To booze... To weed... To speed... To acid... To mushrooms... To E... To crack-cocaine You'd be wise to take my advice Before you fall in love With a fool's paradise You had better think twice A lot of my old friends Now sleep in the gutter Toss an eight ball on the table And watch them try to kill each other My d-d-dad's a p-p-pothead Who s-s-speaks with a s-s-stutter Just another nicotine fiend That describes my mother A raging alcoholic Yeah, that's my brother And my sister…well guys I suggest you use a rubber If you want to know about somebody Investigate their friends and family Even still I'm not quite sure How I let it happen to me But I've escaped the demons And now I'm free You'd be wise to take my advice Before you fall in love With a fool's paradise You had better think twice Well if you're hooked And you're looking to beat it Listen closely and I'll tell you a secret If you've climbed the ladder so high That you duck when planes fly You can't just jump off or else you'll die It's too hard to cold turkey What was years in the making You managed to climb up So you've got to climb back down One step at a time Until your feet hit the ground (7) EX-POEM When someone says your name I duck Because now I'm careful of whom I trust Sometimes in love you really get fu$%ed Sometimes a smiling face Turns into disgust Second chances...you got them But for a second time you hit rock bottom Third chances... you want them Still trying to sell me some fruit That you know is rotten Calling on the phone And knocking on the door So scared to be alone When you finally realize That you can't have What you once had any more But you brought it on yourself So why are you so surprised? Love is dead It has been beheaded Get it through your head We'll never be wedded My phone rings But I don't pick it up I give easy hints But you won't pick them up Often there's no voice On the other end of the receiver It is true I once worshipped you But now I'm no longer a believer When someone says your name I duck Because now I'm careful of whom I trust (8) RAIN ⚠️ PARTIAL — FIRST TWO STANZAS ONLY [Tom to supply complete lyric or confirm this is canonical full version] Rain...it makes the flowers grow Rain...doesn't hide what it doesn't know Rain...leads to floods look out below Rain...don't say I didn't tell ya so Pain...it doesn't always show Pain...fills up what's empty and hollow Pain...remembers names from long ago Pain...better when it's dull and shallow (9) TWISTING THE KNIFE When you wanna lash out And leave long lasting scars You search deep within yourself And remember who you are For with your sharp tongue You know which words will hurt the most As your vision becomes an apparition After you've disappeared like a ghost Sometimes it's not whatcha say But whatcha don't When you know whatcha wanna do And yet you won't Sometimes walking away Without a single word said Just might say the most And be best cure for your head Severing the ties Without twisting the knife Might be the hardest thing You've ever done in your life (10) MY PRECIOUS Two mourning doves rest upon a limb Begin the day with a praising hymn To the gods of grass and rain and wind For it's what they know what they're surrounded in Contrast that to me who prays for fame Golden statues and plaques bearing my name Sure it might seem to some a little vain But it's what I know what I'm surrounded in Every sight I am seeing Every thought I am thinking Every sentence I am speaking Everything I've been believing The roots are imperial Facts often mytherial Logic hypocritical True intentions deceiving With all of our wealth we haven't had much success Still got people sleepin' On mattresses made of pavement Their pillows are our steps Why is gold so precious? What makes silver so fine? Who first chose to call this wealth? Back in history and time I wish that I could have told them Being rich was all for show Then I would have shown them There was a better way to go We could have changed Our chain-of-being Into something non-material Then we could live our lives For something meaningful We could've reach new highs I'm talking spiritual (11) MONETIZATION This time I'm feeling like the criminal But all communication is subliminal Sure my treatment might be deferential 'Cause now others notice my potential They got silver tongues And their eyes? They're green They're the best paid talkers That you've ever seen You know those who smile at themselves? Well....now they were smiling at me They said you could make money for us If you can trick the rest into thinking you got something In which they can still believe After some pondering I started responding And I kindly replied: Yeah...part of me has died And I'd like to find that something I can finally stake my faith and creed in... But hopefully it'll either be mental clarity Oh gee, maybe sanity... or perhaps even freedom Then maybe there would be No more forced insanity that any amount of money can pay the fee For forgetting all about humanity and human dignity What has happened to some I hope it doesn't happen to me I'm still trying to find a reason to wake up Maybe it's to give everything a shake up Some poor pawn's got to lead the charge Take a musket ball for society at large Heck, I'd rather be the host or the maître d' Than some bourgeoisie attendee To a committee brunch designed to oversee Who gets to select who gets the gold trophy For having the charity That spends the most on vanity I guess we just fundamentally disagree For you see I don't wanna be a trainee to be a trustee Because I don't agree Subscribe or believe In such self-serving fantasies For sometimes money Is one's own worst enemy Just search through the texts of history From King Midas to Judas to Bush and Cheney When money becomes everything then I don't want any... Nah... I don't want any (12) LET ME IN Won't you let me in Into your heart Into your mind That would keep me satisfied To become one With your subconscious And with your soul You know I'd never try to gain control Over your feelings Or your actions I'd just smile wide With satisfaction And I'd help you find the truth Amongst all these distractions For I believe we both could use Each other as a book of matches When the world seems dark Or when things look bleak When we could use a spark To light a flame for each other to see Won't you let me in Into your world Into your thoughts As for my own - I've shared a lot Still I long for yours Tell me what do you see When you look at the world And when you look at me? Because I want to view life Through a second pair of eyes For sometimes even I need a guide To show me a new and better path And to know there's Someone standing there Standing behind me When I look back... For I long to see a light When the trail starts winding As the day's becoming night And the way's not easy finding My eyes are tired And I'm losing sight Won't you let me in Into your door when I am cold Into your arms so I can hold Onto someone Onto something When I'm spinning out of control When I'm beginning to feel old And less reassured than when I was a kid When I question everything in my life And what I've done with it We could share secret thoughts That thus far we've kept hid Won't you let me in... Oh, won't you let me in? Won't you let me in?