Experiments Running Experiments
Matt Andersen
Trigger warning: Death.
Experiments Running Experiments
Break me down
Take me apart
The smallest pieces
The smallest parts
Rip these atoms out from me
You could build something more deserving
With this energy I waste
The medicine I take
To destroy reality
Sometimes I pray
And I’m ashamed
We’ll collapse
Into a perfect state
Bodies in the dark
We’ll decay
And radiate
As we fall apart
In this wonderful collage
Of accidents
With several fine tuned
Instruments
Keep your color inside
These arbitrary lines
They were not drawn for us
Sometimes I pray
Why am I ashamed
We’ll collapse
Into a perfect state
Bodies in the dark
We’ll decay
And radiate
As we fall apart
I’ve kissed and I’ve killed
I won’t be an experiment
Existence is all that I have
I’ll just sell all these cells
Make a shell of myself
While the rest of you just laugh
Collapse
Into a perfect state
Bodies in the dark
We’ll decay
And radiate
As we fall apart
As I fall apart
When’d it get so dark
The Science
I wrote this piece about 7 years ago when I had first started my B.S. in Physics. The original intention wasn’t necessarily to write a Physics-based song, but to explore the existential feelings I was experiencing as a young adult. However, because we exist in a physical world, the language of Physics ended up being the best tool I had to do that.
I think it’s important to note that we exist in a human world as well as the physical world. If the physical world is best described through Physics then, perhaps, the human world is best described through art. That is not to say they are mutually exclusive, quite the contrary. Humanity without an understanding of Wave Mechanics is a humanity without Beethoven or Bob Dylan.
The Artist
Matt Andersen (aka Idiot Spit) is a Salt Lake City based artist whose latest project "Needlework" is a collection of songs exploring mental health and substance abuse, with all proceeds being donated to the ROOTS Youth Adult Shelter in Seattle, WA. You can follow him on Instagram @idiotspit, and buy the album here: https://idiotspit.bandcamp.com/album/needlework
Copyright statement. This work is published under the CC BY-NC-SA license