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Threshold

Album function

Experience without awareness.

Threshold is the entry space for CTE. It does not carry the full weight of Witness yet. It teaches the listener how to enter the world through experience first.

Core feeling

Living through the external world before fully understanding why.

Routine. Autopilot. Habit. Regression. Small sensory moments. The world changing while I was away from it.

Guardrail

Threshold should not explain too much.

It should feel lived before it feels understood.

Possible working lyrics

No final lyrics are placed in this album yet.

Possible Threshold lyrics are reviewed from [[Lyrics/Working Lyrics|Working Lyrics]]:

• [[Lyrics/Working Lyrics/A Little Chaos/A Little Chaos|A Little Chaos]]
• [[Lyrics/Working Lyrics/First Comes Experience/First Comes Experience|First Comes Experience]]
• [[Lyrics/Working Lyrics/Play/Play|Play]]
• [[Lyrics/Working Lyrics/Surviving the Day/Surviving the Day|Surviving the Day]]
• [[Lyrics/Working Lyrics/The Weight Is Shared/The Weight Is Shared|The Weight Is Shared]]
• [[Lyrics/Working Lyrics/Tribal/Tribal|Tribal]]
• [[Lyrics/Working Lyrics/While I Was Away/While I Was Away|While I Was Away]]

See [[Lyrics/Placement Links/Working Lyrics - Possible Album Links|Working Lyrics - Possible Album Links]].

Possible functions

• Gateway into CTE
• Primer for the listener
• Fragments of experience becoming noticeable
• External life before full awareness
• Songs people can return to before they know why

Questions to keep open

• Is this experience without awareness
• Is this a song, a fragment, or a primer
• Does it invite the listener in
• Does it prepare Witness without becoming Witness