PARADISE LOST
Written for the Bushwick Book Club’s Jurassic Park event, this song reimagines Michael Crichton’s cautionary tale with an emphasis on the techno-capitalism angle of the book, where “progress” is just science weaponized for profit. It’s about the human instinct to own, replicate, and control what should remain wild — and the inevitable collapse that follows when creation becomes a commodity. Like much of Burden of Excess, it’s less a retelling than a reflection: a warning about the myths we build around innovation, and how easily our better intentions evolve into extinction events.