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incubus (nkye-bes)
1. An evil spirit believed to descend upon and have sexual intercourse with women as they sleep in the form of a dream.
2. A hugely successful California rock band with hot ass members.
"Redefine" is about the creation of your own reality and your world. The metaphor Brandon Boyd used was humas being like Magic Markers. For so long, they painted black and white pictures in their life because that's all they could do. But if they take control, they can paint with a different color and make a very vibrant and beautiful picture."
In "New Skin" Brandon attributes a scab to the present state of society. The way the scab looks in it's worst state is gross and chaotic, and horrible, that's now, but when it breaks away, there's a brand new piece of skin that's stronger than before. It's like creation out of chaos.
"Idiot Box" is about TV culture. "Television, isn't good for your brain. In the song, I fantasized abuot a world without t.v." -Brandon Boyd
"Favorite Things" is Brandon's personal beliefs about religion and how it oppresses the things he enjoys the most. Unfortunately the simplest things, such as thinking for myself,creating my own reality and being whatever the hell he wants to be each day of his life, are a sin. To be a good Christian basically means to give up the reigns of your life and let some unseen force do it for you.
"Pardon Me" Brandon was in a bookstore, browsing through an old Life magazine when he saw a picture of what the article called spontaneous human combustion. There were an old guy's legs and shoes perfectly intact, then right around his knee area, was just a pile of charred ashes. Brandon was going through some turmoil in his life, both good and bad, and the image struck a cord, so...he wrote a song about it.
"Nice to Know You," is probably the closest link to their last record. "It has sort of the melding of the drum-and-bass verse into the rock chorus," Boyd says. The song was written at the final show during the band's last European tour, which was cut short because Boyd was suffering from strep throat. "I had taken a sleeping pill on the way over there and I fell asleep on my pinky that was bent weird," Boyd recalls. "Half of my hand was asleep for almost three weeks and I thought I'd destroyed my nerves. I got totally scared. I'm kind of an idiot sometimes and I got divine inspiration from my hand waking up. So, I created a lyric around that."
*following are quotes from brandon.
Wish You Were Here - A simple and straightforward ditty about the beauty of a moment in paradise. And the desire to share that moment with someone of like mind.
Warning - tells a small story about a person who has the world at the tips of her fingers but through the art of distraction and compromise she wakes up one day to find that it has slipped by her. And the information she gains from her mistake she shares in song with the rest of the world. Kind of a 'don't do what i did' lamentation.
Just a Phase - documents how fickle the world can be and how the only certainty that exists is that everything eventually runs it's course. Keeping this in mind and trying not to get too cynical, it points out the blessing in disguise that is 'Temporaryism' and how it can be a door that swings both ways.
Aqueous Transmission - perhaps our most ambitious work to date, was first conceived with an instrument quite alien to Incubus and all of rock music to be precise. A 'Ko-kyu' is what was used here and it was donated by a very generous and talented man by the name of Steve Vai. One late evening we began conjuring and experimenting with this track and it quickly brought to mind the image and analogy of floating freely down a river; hence the content of the song. Our friend Suzi Katayama, who has in the past worked string arrangements with the likes of Bjork, Madonna and even Yours Truly for an acoustic performance in L.A., lent her classical finesse to this story. And in doing so helped it become exactly what we envisioned; a song so atmospheric and vibratory, it would make those who listened to it doze off into a land of rivers, kung fu and unicorns, eventually making the listener pee in her/his pants. (Attainable goals I think, but please don't operate any heavy machinery while listening to this one.)
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