Hello there. My name is Ryan. I make music under the name Sleeping at Last, and I am so glad that you're here.

Thank you so much for the opportunity to tell you about my music, to tell you all that went into the making of each song.

It is such a privilege, and I am so excited to get to talk to you today.

This is the Sleeping at Last podcast. Welcome.

Thank you. excited to get to talk to you today. This is the Sleeping Last podcast. Welcome. This episode is all about my new song, WANT, which is the sibling song to a recently released song of mine called Have.

I call them sibling songs because they're sort of like two sides of the same coin, and they're deeply related to one another.

If you haven't already listened to the episode before this one all about the song have I would encourage

you to it's not essential in any way but I think it provides a little bit of a helpful context

for what this song want is all about both new songs have and want belong to my

Atlas project specifically Atlas 3 and Atlas is a trilogy I'll give you just a very, very brief overview of the

concept of Atlas. Essentially, it's 80 songs long, and it has been going on for quite a few years now.

It began with Atlas I all about the origins of everything. So it begins with the theme of darkness

and then light, and then kind of

brings the thematic camera closer and closer to us and the human experience. And so I wrote a song

for each of the planets in our solar system and each of our oceans. And then Atlas 2 is all

about involuntary human development. And so it is about the things that we are born into this world

with, that we have no say or control over. And so that included my songs based on the five basic

senses and the Enneagram. And then now we're in Atlas 3. And Atlas 3 is all about voluntary human

development. It's all about our choices. It's what we choose to do with

everything that we have, which include my songs build, destroy, have, want, believe, doubt, hurt,

heal, and songs based on the Greek definitions of love. I like to think of my Atlas project

as sort of the past, present, and future. So Atlas 1 is the past, the origins.

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