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I'm Fractal

from Tough by Bubblegum Octopus

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about

I don't know exactly when I wrote this, but it was a companion to an "I can't ever know things" track called I'm Spectral, so I think it comes from 2010.
I made a number of changes to this song but, with the exception of recording vocals and some really lofi samples of me playing drums, I tried to only make use of the audio that was already in the song for all of my changes and not even have access to any of the MIDI data.

lyrics

I'm a pattern, twisting infinitely
I'm repeating, revealed in the spiral's melting
Dripping into technicolor lightning
I'm a fragment of something that I know is greater

I'm fractal, don't despair
Dying just couldn't compare
I'm fractal don't despair
When the sun blows up I'm bound to remain here

Days are so fast, spinning planet blasting
Through the cosmos, faster than the greatest rocket
Grab a comet, break it with your fingers
Be delighted by the sounds below our human hearing

I'm fractal, don't despair
I'm but an endemic atom in a camera flash
I'm fractal don't despair
I feel beautiful with all of you in this infinite blip

So know us now, as we forge our own path embracing everything that we choose not to ignore
And it means much more than nothing, that we're all untitled somethings, and yet we all take it to heart to name ourselves
Don't get stuck in yourself, and don't serve only you
Build up from all the bleak
Take root where you believe
And spread the good word as we burst from the film

The soft light does burn things
Fret not friend, hold on to here

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from Tough, released April 4, 2015

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REJECT IRONY,
EMBRACE DISCOMFORT!

LOVING BLISS & CHAOS AT LIGHTSPEED!!~

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(2005 - FOREVER)

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