Album: Brando's Paradise Sessions EP (2009)
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  • "I can't keep songwriting journals. I don't take pictures too often for the same reason. If I'm writing down what happened, I'm missing what's happening now. I just write what I feel. Shoot, it's not a big process for me," Nelson explained to Our Stage.

    Perhaps because of this, his songs are almost always straightforward, hard-eyed, and direct. More than anything else, they feel like Nelson's own jumbled thoughts streamlined and set to a melody - nothing feels overwrought.

    This makes "The Awakening" something of an anomaly for Lukas, as it's written from the imagined perspective of an uncle of his who'd recently undergone triple bypass surgery. "The song is me imaging what he'd feel like when he woke up," Nelson told Your Music Magazine.

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