Switched-On Lotus

The song's title alludes to the 1968 album Switched-On Bach, connecting the SP-2 to Wendy Carlos, trans people who deeply influenced Hirasawa. The lyrics could be a description of the struggles of people who are born in the wrong body and then eventually reach their goal of living in the body that matches the gender they have been in their mind all along; it could also be interpreted as a more spiritual song about the joy of leaving life behind for heaven or about achieving enlightenment.

Connections

 * The lotus imagery is also present in "Lotus" and "Rotation (Lotus-2)".
 * The wider theme of a calling from a larger elemental force breaking through a banal society to impart a revelation into the listener is also present in "The Double of Wind" and "Phonon Belt". "Grandfatherly Wind" in particular also shares and expresses it with prison imagery like this song.