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,

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!