Secret Song release: Zombie Lover

Doom Scrolling is Like Sleeping with a Zombie

I took a life-changing songwriting class with Brian Eno this January.

One assignment? Write a protest song.

My result? Total failure… at least on paper.

What came out instead was Zombie Lover — a weird, gritty track about doom-scrolling, brain fog, and the slow zombification of our screen-obsessed culture.

I ran my drums through a mess of guitar pedals, dialed in a synth that sounds like a rotting circuit board, and sent it to my friend Greg Hoy to shred some guitars on it. Then I took the mess to Jonathan Plum, who helped me shape the mayhem into something you could actually press play on.

It’s raw, it’s noisy, and definitely not on brand… which might be why I love it.

Here’s the streaming link if you’re curious (or if you’ve ever felt like your phone might be turning you into the undead):

You can also stream it on Disco if you like: https://s.disco.ac/khhcmfyhkxeh

I might release it someday but don't feel like it fits.

And yet, Brian Eno would say, ship it anyway!

Here’s the lyrics:

Zombie Lover

They say I’ve got a weird imagination

Well, Someone’s in my house!

I’m talking about the state of contagion

And what’s allowed

What’s allowed?

I see the flesh

It hangs in my house

The glass is lit

no getting out

I see today's rabid polarization

And now someone’s in my house

I’m talking about the blind indoctrination

The lies and cat and mouse

I don’t know why I got here

I don’t know how I came at all

All I know is I’m sleeping with a zombie

And I know he’s gonna be my downfall

Ohhh so low

Ohhh so low

I’m talking about the state of conflation

We’ve lost our ideals

I wish it was my mad imagination

Talking about the state of the lie

I’m sleeping with a zombie

He’s got crazy ideas

Last Night I scrolled the TV

My eyes were glued with tears

Ohhh no more

Ohhh so low

I slept with a zombie last night

I slept with a zombie last night

I slept with a zombie last night

I slept with a zombie last night