I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!'
In those days, it didn't take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an experience that you might have gone through, and write it down.
I didn't want the words 'Spider-Man' attached to my name in any shape or form. Especially a singing one.
For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.
We became the songs we wrote.
Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs.
I was like, 'Josh Tillman, you are not a songwriter. You are an ape. Stop thinking of yourself as a songwriter.'
I wrote the tunes and sang only nonsense words. Then came Moore and dressed them with the lyrics.
I remember so vividly the first song I ever wrote. It was called 'Different People.'
There's no huge, deep message in any of the songs. We recorded a few months of being human.