"music player time capsule" is technically the first track to start the story the album is telling.  The song touches on an electronic device that I have had for most of my life that holds value to me.  This device is an iPod from 2004.  Every time I use it, I am adding a new chapter to my life, yet I can still look back and see the tracks I put on it in the past.  This is how I see such a device, and this plays an important part in my story.  It establishes the idea that objects can have significant value to me, and a device like an iPod can be a great way to escape the worlds taunting and judgment on people like me.  It also shows that my life might seem like a fun perfectly happy childhood to an outsider, but deep inside, I had fear and uncertainty of what the world expected of me.

"surrounded by thorns" is an intense track about my struggles growing up as an autistic person.  Throughout the album, there are symbols that represent different aspects of the story that I am telling in the work.  The thorns symbolize the people who put me down as I try to build myself up.  These people include bullies in school and elsewhere, adults who doubted me, and people who abused my disability to get away with awful actions.  There is a recurring line in the song that says "I cannot climb without shedding blood”.  Shedding blood refers to the thorns causing me pain and trying to stop me from being the best self I can be.  This song breaks down and continues into the next track “treading water”.

Considered the climax of the first half of the album, "treading water" sonifies the most traumatic event of my life.  This is not something I am comfortable explaining here on this page, but be assured that this track is intense.  I did not hold back on making this track feel exactly like the memory I have of this event in my life.  Trigger warning for sudden loud noises and high frequencies.

"nothing" depicts the horrors of being in an autistic shutdown.  This track proceeds "treading water" as that event did invoke me to shut down.  The track starts out bombastic, depicting the many different thoughts racing in my head, and my search for my own senses.  After this, the track settles down and I sing about what it feels like having a shutdown, which in one word would be "nothing".

“space” begins in a Taxi of some sort.  I hop into the car, and tell the driver to take me where everyone else is going.  After the events of the previous three tracks, I am defeated, and give in to conforming to what society wants me to be like.  As the generic music gets louder and louder, and the car drives faster and faster, I begin to have a vision.  This brings in a light chill theme where I sing about trying to find a space where I can build myself up instead of conforming.  After this vision, I tell the driver to stop, and I step out of the car.  The generic music cuts out, and a new interesting uplifting beat plays, symbolizing my search for place where I can build myself back up.  This place ends up being an abandoned train bridge that I call “stimulation bridge”.

If any symbol in the album has to be the most significant, the bridge would be one of those.  "stimulation bridge part 1" introduces the idea of an abandoned bridge where I can freely stim and be myself without people bullying me or judging me for being myself.  It also symbolizes a safe space where I can be vulnerable with the people in my life that I love.  The song also compares my life to this structure that was also abandoned in the place we both reside in after society deemed it unusable.  It was left to rot, like neurodivergent people are left to fend for themselves in this scary world.  The music is very calming and hopeful.

For the second half of the album, "the moment i belong" would be the climax track.  This track marks a significant part of my life where I felt accepted for being my true self for the first time.  When I started making friends at Oberlin College, I realized that true friendship was something I was lacking for a long time in my life.  I also never had someone to share experiences with until going to college.  The track is a duet between two people and is supposed to sound like these two people (one of them being me) having a conversation about our past experiences.  The track builds in intensity the whole time and has a climatic ending.

“beyond” is a lush and dramatic piano solo piece that depicts the feelings of moving forward with my life.  After feeling like I belong at Oberlin and having support from other people like me, I finally develop the power to break through the glass sky.  The track gets really emotional and intense, but in a bitter-sweet way, as I am leaving the people I love for a bright and exciting future.

"stimulation bridge part 2" ends the album with a dramatic and positive bang!  The music is simple, yet uplifting, bringing back the main melody from part 1.