alternate Akathisia line, early MOTHH photos (Patreon)

Back when I first wrote Akathisia, there was a line I had created that didn't make it into the final song. It was initially about a singular person, though I took the line out to make the full song more about my own inner experience.

The line was:

"I'm asking for warmth from the moon

When I ask for affection from you."

While writing this line, I was thinking about a book I had been read as a child called "To The Moon And Back", and how I felt "left alone on the moon" in some of my relationships - isolated, treated with coldness.

The typography drawing above is from my journal at the time I was writing Akathisia.

The bottom two images are:

• Me playing a house show in Brooklyn in 2019 during the time of the production process for Surgery

• Me in the park, probably a few minutes before or after editing and finalizing my lyrics for Jesus on the Telephone