Metal Minds & Mental Lines

from Abe Maybe and The Improbable Knot: The 5 Piece Combo Interpretations by Abe Maybe

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Words and music by Ian Gleespen
Arranged by Abe Maybe (the 5 piece combo)

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Metal Minds and Mental Lines

Have you noticed that the lowest
of the lowest of the low
are prone to moan and grow their woe?

Puny minds inside, this finite kind,
they don't know what is right
behind their tiny binded eyes.

Our world was blessed, but some divested
then they wept inside their shells.
Their selves the sole possession kept.

I took the power offered,
awful though I knew it oft could be
for this lesser intellect.

I slaked my thirst for all this endlessness
on thoughts from every time
and every mind that ever was.

Mixed Technology with Biology,
I made them metal minds,
they would not break through mental lines.

They were but lonely animals.
Crawling to their deaths!
When this notion struck my head.
To meld machine with flesh!
I rose them up, I plugged them in
to make them one
With me their God!
But do they grovel for this debt?
No! They're just calling for my death.

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from Abe Maybe and The Improbable Knot: The 5 Piece Combo Interpretations, released October 7, 2021
The 5 Piece Combo:
Ian Gleespen - vocals/acoustic guitar
Kristianna Bell - vocals
Timothy Blackman - bass
Rick Couglin - guitar/vocals
Erich Friebel - drums/percussion/vocals

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Abe Maybe Hamtramck, Michigan

In 1984, before our two earths were unjoined; our timelines shared a history when a mystery rift in our time and space did ope' and out of nowhere emerged this race: a collective of disembodied space-born brains.

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