"Singular conscience has wired the stars,

I wrote Colonizer after visiting the Griffith Park Observatory and Manly P. Hall’s Philosophical Research Institute in Los Angeles—two places that sit at the intersection of science, mysticism, and human ambition. That experience fed directly into the mindset behind Space And Other Things: a record exploring where we’re going, and why.

Colonizer follows a lone figure drifting away from Earth—part pioneer, part exile—caught between wonder and detachment. The song opens on a mass departure, “hordes of men walking… shipped off to Mars,” and narrows into something more intimate: a single consciousness navigating isolation, ambition, and the illusion of progress.

At its core, the track is about escape—technological, psychological, and philosophical. A character, loosely inspired by the modern billionaire space race, seeks transcendence through colonization, but what unfolds is something more ambiguous. The “nerve centers humming with dreams from afar” reflect not just innovation, but a kind of disembodied consciousness—wired, drifting, detached from origin.

The song also explores genetic ambition and control—the idea of mapping and reconstructing identity itself as humanity moves beyond Earth. Beneath the spectacle of space travel sits a critique: who gets to leave, who stays behind, and what parts of humanity are carried forward—or erased—in the process.

Musically, Colonizer draws from the lineage of David Bowie’s Life On Mars?—a glam-inflected, theatrical structure with shifting chords, orchestration, and a cabaret sense of narrative tension. The Moog-driven opening nods to Pythagoras’ concept of the Music of the Spheres, suggesting that even in deep space, vibration remains the underlying constant.

Despite its critique, the song doesn’t resolve in cynicism. There’s a strange optimism running through it—the recurring line, “the future has never looked so bright,” feels both sincere and unsettling. It leaves the listener in that ambiguity: is this evolution, or repetition at a larger scale?

Within Space And Other Things, Colonizer represents the edge of human ambition—where technology, identity, and philosophy collide—and asks whether expansion without reflection simply carries our existing structures into the stars.