Elevation V1 You know the score, you've got tha floor and you've got all of their eyes. You've got your foot in the door, you could be changing some lives. You've got them waiting on your words so you can touch their minds, so will you use it for vanity or to try to inspire? Do you blow your own trumpet? Is it all about you? Would it matter if they listened but they didn't know who? Without a face or a name, would ya still be the same? Would ya bother performing? Would you do what you do? Chorus Are you driven to free their minds or are you trying to captivate them? Do you take the stage for yourself or for collective elevation? V2 So do ya feel the need to validate your existence? Do you recognize the need to give your share of assistance? Does the story in your mind need them to see your face? Is what you give to everyone worth all the time that you take? Are you posting your pussy cause you want some attention or is she the key to our collective ascention? Are the arguments in parlaiment a show of our best? Because if this is elevation, it's one hell of a mess! Would it matter if the world didn't know you know you exist? If what you had to say was said through surrogate lips? Would it under-feed your egotistical bits? Is your agenda conflicted as you listen to this? Should they believe in you? Or in their own potential? Do they need to see you? Is it consequential? Is it not enough to know you're making a difference? Please stop wasting our time with what isn't essential Bro! Chorus Are you driven to free their minds? Or are you trying to captivate them? Do you take the stage for yourself? Or for collective elevation? Voiceover Australia has some of the highest paid politicians in the world. Does a leader really need ten times more than those on an average wage? When a system is geared to use enormous salaries to attract great thinkers, what type of great thinkers will be generally attracted? One's focused on personal profit in the face of great inequity. Greed is the fear of insecurity. It wants to defeat rivals. So the community's interests tend to take a back seat as a secondary priority. V3 Is it important to you, individual identity? Individualism makes individual enemies. When we focus on each others individual face, well, I'm thinking that's holistically an ignorant place. Imagine life blind and all our names are joe blow and all our voices are the same, then, how would I know? Every notion anonymous in the human collective, each idea contributed just another perspective. Do you think that the worst would raise it's ugly head? Do you think that our thoughts are often best left un-said. Is it "If I don't hear them, then I don't have to fear them" and if ignorance is bliss then leave psychology dead? Our issues are collective 'cos we're living as one, but we want glory or punishment for everything that is done and our.. fear of each other stops us having any fun, so drop your ego, drop your fear for our elevation. ------------------------------------------- Notes: (Fear - Vanity/Greed) For those moments when we're unsure if we're acting altruistically in selfishness or selflessness, this song serves as a reminder of a method to check ourselves. If the world didn't know our name or face, if the altruistic thing we wanted to do happened and the world had no idea that we existed still, would we still want it to happen?? If so, then you are probably thinking selflessly, if not, then you're only tooting your own horn, and the world can probably do without your self-gratification. This song is the protagonists realisation that the way forward is to release the need to glorify self (the push method), but instead to help elevate those around them (the pull method). One of the things the other psychology projects I'm involved with tries to remind everyone is that fear is a push energy, and love or curiosity is a pull energy. This translates here perfectly; the need to glorify self when given a spotlight comes from a place of fear, whereas the want to elevate those around onesself comes from a place of love and curiosity. The song makes a HUGE statement in the end verse, asking the audience to imagine a life where no-one has an identity, and where we're forced to speak only to ideas rather than to people we naturally give labels and identities to, along with the prejudices and bias we've been conditioned to have in relation to those. This bias interferes with, (some may say enhances), the way we credit and discredit ideas and methods. Particularly in instances of leadership, (just think western governments for instance), most of us have felt at some point like we're judging the situation based on our instinctive sum of other people's opinions about the indentity or character of the 'owner' of policy proposals. What if we had no identity to judge, no candidate or party name to attribute, we would be forced to look at the ideas and think about them, rather than how much one looks like a potato, or a banker, or has no sense of eyebrow control, or kisses babies, or drinks like a trooper, or... you get the picture. Most people hate the idea of not being able to judge people based on an identity we'd like to attribute to them... I get it, it feels like it would be a massive part of one's intuition lopped off, but increasingly, this 'intuition' is being mapped and exploited by big tech. Without identities (I know, it's not like we can throw them away, but we can improve some of our current systems based on imposed anonymity), we'd quickly learn to follow the growth pattern of ideas via proper descernment rather than being led by the nose because we have predicable instincts. We would learn to look for where ideas comes from, why an idea has become an idea in spite of how ridiculous it may sound. We would learn to trace agendas, except if no-one had any option of identity, then what agenda would we be left with anyway? We'd be forced into a collective one, where we consider each other to be an extension of ourselves... This idea isn't far fetched, we can practise it in our day-to-day lives and observe how hard it is not to assign labels to ideas based on the identity of the source... in other words, how hard it is to control our instincts, to be aware of them, and to consciously self-recondition them to become something which came from you, not something which an external entity has created for you according to whatever its own agenda is... ...it's hard to recondition ourselves, but are you willing to risk not doing so? People are generally good natured, but are the ideas they've been conditioned into? Let's speak to ideas, not people. Lyrically, this song is a boldly cheeky prompt for the listener's self-reflection, and then makes a huge statement about labels, and by extension vanity and greed. Musically, it made sense to go for a relatively big, bold, in-your-face sound. Dance music, while VERY fun to try to make, is not really one of my strongest suits I think. I find it difficult to keep things as simplistic and static as most dance stuff, so I tend to throw mood changes into the music which happen more dramatically than dance music usually does which tends to upset the dancefloor flow a little... I've always been more about listening than dancing... but that didn't stop me secretly bouncing around the living room to this one on a number of occasions lol. ;D I'm not exactly sure what genre to label this, it has elements of club, rap, dubstep or drumstep, but it's not exclusively any of these. If there are any electronic music experts out there, I'd appreciate someone elses opinion on it.