I accidentally made my first EP a metaphor for Erikson's stages of development like:
Everbe: Trust vs mistrust, autonomy vs shame/doubt. You are born. You are a body. You are learning to trust your body. You are learning to develop autonomy. You are not conscious yet but the one thing tying you to every living being on this planet is that you have a body.
Eversee: Initiative vs Guilt, Industry vs Inferiority. You have gained awareness of your existence. You cannot influence the world around you easily. You're learning by observing. You're learning of what it means to exist.
Everthink: Identity vs Confusion. You are developing an identity. You are trying to develop with a million people throwing things at you about what you shoulf be. You're trying to find identity while everyone is trying to decide it for you. You are trying to learn about your everyday while everyone is trying to nitpick everything about you. You are trying to learn about yourself.
Everknow: Intimacy vs Isolation. You are trying to learn about the world. You are trying to learn about other people. You are trying to learn about the environment. Intimacy is more than sex and romance. You must become intimate with knowledge.
Everchange: Generativity vs Stagnation, Integrity vs Despair. You now want to have a place in the world. You have this knowledge about yourself and everything else and now you want to use it to lead, to change, to grow, to help.
A lot of my music writing process is just my brain dumping something into my notes app and then later I'll reread it and be like "wait a minute. I'm onto something here." And honestly I feel like its a gift of knowledge from maybe the Universe as a whole or even Divine knowledge from the Gods. I don't know. But it exists and I made it exist and it means something more than I intended it to mean.
