The single from the November 2022 Vinyl EP release (Alabama Skies) and the forthcoming LP (Love in the Dark) to be released in the spring of 2023.
Available on all digital platforms on 11/18/22. Listen and download here https://orcd.co/403dfreakout
Song written and performed by Abe Partridge
Produced by Shawn Byrne, Great Hill Studio, Nashville, TN
©2022 Abe Partridge
Lyrics
V1
Sometimes it feels like we’re already dead
Or this trap that I call time
Is just some inception-like dream state I’m in
As I lay dying
I think maybe we never existed at all we’re just some 5-sensed hallucination
Or just the mirror image of a higher reality beyond our comprehension
And I lay awake at night and can’t keep my mind from wondering
about what it all means that I have the ability to wonder what it all means
Did you know that nobody in this whole wide world can give you
the definition of consciousness
That doesn’t venture off into religion or some kind of absurdist pseudo-science?
And since I started listening to both sides without caring onto which side I fell
I found out that there were more than two sides if you really wanna know a subject well.
Which only led me to more heartbreak as I thought about all the fights
That have been started by two sides and neither one of them was truly wrong or right
And then I started considering the brutality that I witness every day
And how numb to the sight of human suffering I’d become in my middle age
Now all the fascists and the commies are spewing out their dogmas and taking over the conversation
Any voice that’s devoid of an agenda has been removed from consideration
I started thinking about the weapons of mass destruction: biological, chemical, and nukes
And that we could have them all fired from the push of a button of an orange presidential buffoon
So I started reading up on how to survive a nuclear apocalypse
And after my research, I concluded I didn’t even wanna survive to live in a world like that
So even if I try to be positive and convince myself that someday we might actually see peace
It's then that I realize in like a billion years or so this planet is gonna cease to be
Because the sun has gravity too you know, and we are being pulled in as we orbit
And if we don’t find a way to destroy this earth then the sun is gonna do it for us
La la la la
La la la la
Turn off your mind
Because an active mind
Is a devil's playground
V2
Then my mind turned to the scientists, explorers, and the greatest amongst us all
Who gave their lives to learning and research and made great discoveries about the world
And then it occurred to me that all truth exists long before some learned man makes
it known
I mean, if ya think about it, E don’t equal MC2 just ‘cuz Einstein said it was so
And now considering this, science kinda seems like a waste, I’ll just devote myself to art
At least an artist creates something of value, a unique representation of his heart
But then I looked around at this plastic world and their frowning faces and their disdain for beauty
And I seen all the poor starving artist dwelling at the fringes
of a cold society
But you know that we would not have “Fur Elise” if not for this guy named Beethoven
And we’d certainly not have the White Album if Paul McCartney never met John Lennon
So I said, “Well maybe that’s my problem. I missed my Lennon. Somehow this chance done passed me by
And that’s the reason I’m standing here singing this stupid song and losing my freaking mind”
And then even this stranger thought my tortured mind began to ponder
I wonder what if Einstein would’ve met McCartney first while John Lennon was studying the great wonders
I ain’t saying that it would have been the Beatles,
but it would’ve been interesting to see what they put out
Because I know that Einstein had some pretty cool hair, but I wonder if he could twist and shout
And maybe if Einstein had been singing, “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da”
Instead of drafting the letter to Roosevelt that paved the way for a nuclear bomb
Then a little boy from Nagasaki could’ve married a pretty young girl from Hiroshima
And they could’ve sang “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da”
together and taught their children songs by the Beatles
And I can't imagine that the guy that wrote “Imagine” would’ve been any use in a science lab
Unless that lab had the sole purpose of giving world peace a chance
So we gotta give Lennon to science and Einstein to McCartney, we gotta find a way to get back in time
But then I realized if we ever built a time machine, it’ll be based on the scientific work of Albert Einstein!
La la la la
La la la la
Turn off your mind
Because an active mind
Is a Devil's playground
The Devil's playground!
