UNKILLABLE ANGEL c-side "telepresence"

i've got about an album's worth of b-sides from UNKILLABLE ANGEL, but the writing process for what eventually became that album lasted about 3 years, from the beginning of the UGLY DEATH cycle until the end of 2024 - so as a result i've got a ton of material even beyond the b-sides that i still think is pretty interesting. the b-sides (which will be released publicly at some point) all feel like complete, fleshed-out song ideas to me, with sort of a vibe and an intention and a little narrative arc going on, like the album tracks do, but there's a lot of songs that feel more like weird little experiments or flashes of ideas that i think are really cool but maybe don't feel as fully-formed. this is one of those and i'd like to post some of the others here too eventually. this song is kind of about misinterpreting intent/personality/entire situations in life thru the faulty refraction of online interactions.

lyrics:

i will fucking run from this world til it kills me
i will fucking run from this world til it kills me
i will fucking run from this world til it kills me
i will fucking run from this world til it kills me

telepresence

i didn't save you
i didn't save you
i didn't save you
i didn't save you

paranoia, gullible, obsessive, what u want?
want it to be true so u won't be haunted by all this
fake nightmare shit you honestly scare me

i will fucking run from this world til it kills me
if you wanna be part of it then we'll be done when the morning comes
i just wanted to trust anyone

every step toward myself is another kind of grief
being understood is an accidental death in the street

i don't know i don't know why the soul is inside the eyes
stare......

i am not here
i am only present
image unclear but still connected
i am not here
i am only present
image unclear - am i still connected?

in a loose connection you can see redemption
represented in emptinesses
specificity lessens
bends with what you are
in other words, it's what you see in the dark
you stare at dead pixels
you think you've found my heart

you stare at dead pixels -
you think you've found my heart?

i am not here
i am only present
image unclear but still connected
i am not here
i am only present
don't infer a person from a bad connection

i will fucking run from this world til it kills me
i will fucking run from this world til it kills me
i will fucking run from this world til it kills me
i will fucking run from this world til it kills me