Editing Morning View (section)

==Music and lyrics==
''Morning View'' has been described as an [[alternative rock]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.soundonsound.com/people/tom-syrowski-recording-incubus-adolescents|title=Tom Syrowski: Recording Incubus' 'Adolescents'|website=soundonsound.com|access-date=November 1, 2020|archive-date=November 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211120162544/https://www.soundonsound.com/people/tom-syrowski-recording-incubus-adolescents|url-status=live}}</ref> [[alternative metal]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/76071/Incubus-USA-CA-Morning-View/|title=Review: Incubus (USA-CA) - Morning View |date=February 5, 2018 |website=Sputnikmusic |first=Brendan|last=Schroer}}</ref> [[hard rock]]<ref name="EW" /> and [[soft rock]] album<ref name="EW" /> and it features a variety of styles: [[Ambient music|ambience]], aggression, and groove. It has an overall softer sound than previous albums, especially apparent on songs like "11am", "Echo" and "[[Are You In?]]". The album also contains an acoustic ballad similar to "Drive" – "Mexico", complete with strings. However, Incubus's heavier side is still evident on tracks like "Blood on the Ground", "Have You Ever" and "Under My Umbrella". Mike Einziger stated in a 2001 interview with ''Spin'', "there's pressure to be a heavy band in this whole scene, and we just really turned our backs on it completely. I think the world of [[rap-metal]] is just pathetically ridiculous. In my opinion, it's a very horrible place to be. We don't want to be part of anyone's little bullshit scene."<ref name=
"spin01">''Spin'', November 2001</ref> Regarding the album's sound, Einziger notes that it "would've been really easy for us to try to replicate certain songs that did well on our last record, which we didn't do. We didn't do anything even remotely close to that. We put pressure on ourselves to make a good record because if none of us were happy with it, we'll all be miserable for the next two years while we're on tour."<ref name="mtv.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.mtv.com/bands/i/incubus/news_feature_102701/index2.jhtml |title=Mtv Music – Incubus |publisher=MTV |date=9 March 2006 |access-date=22 August 2012 |archive-date=November 2, 2001 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011102032832/http://www.mtv.com/bands/i/incubus/news_feature_102701/index2.jhtml |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The final song, "Aqueous Transmission", employs the use of Chinese instruments such as the [[pipa]] and features a Japanese-style orchestra led by multi-instrumentalist Suzie Katayama.<ref name="nme01"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archives.starbulletin.com/2001/11/02/features/story4.html|title=Honolulu Star-Bulletin Features|website=archives.starbulletin.com}}</ref> The pipa used on the recording was given to Mike Einziger from [[Steve Vai]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.1songday.com/2008/08/incubus-aqueous-transmission/|title=Incubus – Aqueous Transmission – One A Day|access-date=August 30, 2016|archive-date=March 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304081303/http://www.1songday.com/2008/08/incubus-aqueous-transmission/|url-status=live}}</ref> Katayama later collaborated with Einziger on the experimental [[Time-Lapse Consortium]] project in 2003, and he credited her with inspiring his deepening musical comprehension.<ref>[https://cds.cern.ch/record/1198880/files/PRESSCUT-V-2009-4380.txt?version=1] {{dead link|date=October 2024}}</ref> "Aqueous Transmission" is the longest song on the album at 7 minutes and 46 seconds long, with the last minute consisting of frogs croaking outside the house in Malibu. At the time, Boyd joked that the song was intended to make "the listener pee in his/her pants" from relaxation. He later claimed in 2021 that the song was influenced by the music of [[Björk]], saying "Mikey and I grew up kind of mutually obsessed with Björk’s music. There was so much we loved about it: the weirdness of it, the instrumentation, the arrangements, the choices that she was making and that the producers were making. So we were like, 'let's make a super Björky sounding breakbeat that’s really cool and eerie and mellow'." He adds, "from there, I started messing around with the lyrics, and I remember when he started playing that little riff over that kind of [[trip-hop]] sounding beat, I just started singing: 'I’m floating down a river'. That’s what it sounded like. To me, it sounded like we were on this psychedelic river cruise somewhere."<ref name="nme01"/>

Many believed that the single "Nice to Know You" lyrically revolved around a failed relationship, although Boyd claimed in 2002 that this was not the case. Regarding the song's meaning, he said, <blockquote>"I had a moment in my life about a year ago where I was way too close to everything that was going on and I was blind. I felt like I was asleep. And the clouds parted for kind of a strange reason and I gained perspective. What happened was my hand had fallen asleep on the airplane on the way to Europe and it remained asleep for about 10 days, which was kind of scary. I must have pinched a nerve or something. But as my hand started waking up, the clouds started breaking away from that emotional state as well. The two happened simultaneously, so I created a simple metaphor for it. So it's basically a song about gaining perspective on a situation."<ref name="warn"/></blockquote>