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Division of the Human Mind

by Thanks To Gravity

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suitablyamused What a gift this album is! It takes on difficult undercurrents of society and still makes you feel hopeful. No easy feat these days but here it is! “Divinity of humankind/Is written in the face of a child.” Brilliant.
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1.
Send up the signal Call the Commissioner Gallop through the night Alert all your neighbors Hang the tower lanterns Let them see the light We cannot escape this No one is right Put up those defenses Bring a pitchfork to the fight Can't erase history by pulling down a statue Can't battle hatred by not letting someone speak Can't kill ideology with bombs Can't hear the confession of a witch, when she's already drowned After the snow The sapling will grow After the flood the soul learns Train on a platform Arms hanging out Reaching for a hand Not a sound from your mouth Packed inside a boxcar Train rolls out We cannot escape this There is no light Put up those defenses Disappear into the night Can't erase history, you can only change minds Spit off a cliff, it'll blow back in your eye Can't fight inequality with lies Can't change a frog into a Monarch Butterfly After the snow The sapling will grow After the flood The soul learns to love We strip away the mud Matador in gold Elephant in blue Estoque and Muleta Nettipattam and daant Packed into a bullring No possible detente Send up the signal Send up the signal Send up the signal
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Where is our compassion? Where's our sympathy? Sucker punched in broad daylight Bullets in the streets Where is our emotion? Where's our empathy? Burned up in a shameful blaze A bonfire at our knees At our knees Inside the the light is slowly fading Protect yourself, forget the rest Filthy politicians inside trading Drop kick the babies from the nest Girl hidden underneath a staircase How did it ever come to this?? We're slipping into darkness We're falling out of grace Stumbling to the downfall Of the human race It's the end of emotion The end of empathy The information age has quietly ushered in the end Of civility We've got to tame our killer instinct Turn our direction toward the light Fill up our lives with love and life!! It's all we have This bridge is falling apart!! This tower is crumbling to dust! This train is coming off the rails!! These hearts are going to get crushed Project our light in all directions Cascading through the stratosphere Send it up, we make connections Hold the light Hold it dear We're slipping into darkness We're falling out of grace Stumbling to the downfall Of the human race It's the end of emotion The end of empathy The information age has quietly ushered in the end Where is our compassion? Where's our sympathy? Sucker punched in broad daylight Bullets in the streets.. Where is our emotion? Where's our empathy? Burned up in a shameful blaze A bonfire at our knees At our knees
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When the universe was in its infancy There was only love To propel the only forces That existed to do their job In an infinitely tiny space They shared their lessons of love To inform the generation of new matter How to un-furl In the many combinations stirring That were soon to take place When the youngest stars of creation Exploded out into space There were bits of energy And Gravity becoming a place That eventually spawned the building blocks Of the human race And thus the Grand Design was born And thus the Universe took shape And when that love exposed its form The next in line behind it Embraced the light that made it Possible to recombine itself And pass on the clues To the elements emerging slowly It imprinted The Way To instruct the coming vapor architectures to circumfuse Stellar nurseries of infant stars The code that must be conveyed It's a map of understanding Hidden in the form of a spring Twisting ladders of the instructions To bring us up in the shape Of a Leonardo drawing Showing us proportions devine And the finger of the statue David Pointing of the sublime We are never going to understand The nature of a bird flock Calculating motion faster than We see the hands of a clock We invented notions of dividing Time into smaller blocks But the atom underneath it all Will keep its secrets not talk And thus the Grand Design was born And thus the Universe took shape And when that love exposed it's form The next in line behind it Embraced the light that made it Everything the quantum world Inside it knew to reject In a jettison of fundamental Constructs locked in The Way There were forces at play That held together light at it's source There was endlessly more divisions Of the code in a wave In a wake of understanding Remnants of equations unlocked They lay undiscovered In the fossil structure inside a rock In the science of an estimate Will they ever learn of their fate Like the faces of Vermeer Embedded in the fabric of space Every element of nature springs forth From this transcendant art Ever blossoming in chaos Strings and patterns shaping all things There are colors we have never seen But by the hand of Van Gogh There are radiating objects Dancing in the mind of Hawking In the state of singularity The Universe does not know it's size It could be a little Angstrom Floating in the cosmic riptide Or a trillion AU's Of shining AU splendor across Maybe a wave of probability emerging In the land of the lost When the universe was in its infancy There was only this Unseen energy that pushed expansion Past the spirals above In a big bang of exquisite beauty We can only conclude That the Universe could only have been Set in motion By love
4.
Division of the human mind Another party listening on the line It's harder to discover truth Than at any other time Any other time Divinity of humankind Is written in the face of a child Enlightenment is always blind Just as a penny to the wise Penny to the wise Many to the prize Many to the prize Harder to find Harder to find Than at any other time Any other time Send up your love Let them see what you're made of Send up your carpenters Let them learn how to build Send up your love Show them how to find the truth Send up your fisherman Show them how to deal with the Division of the human mind Another party listening on the line It's harder to discover truth Than at any other time Any other time Divinity of humankind Is written in the face of a child Enlightenment is always blind Just as a penny to the wise Penny to the wise Many to the prize Many to the prize Harder to find Harder to find Than at any other time Any other time Push to the source It's harder now to find the truth Push through the rain How do we see through the clouds Feel the Force Let go Remember the saying Remember how to deal with the Division of the human mind Another party listening on the line It's harder to discover truth Than at any other time Any other time Divinity of humankind Is written in the face of a child Enlightenment is always blind Just as a penny to the wise Penny to the wise Many to the prize Many to the prize Harder to find Harder to find Than at any other time Any other time We can't control the flow of time Or the flow of Information Descending in upon our minds We take it like any other guy Any other guy We cast a golden light on the scale A season ticket nobody could pay for A dark and foreboding tale Just like any other time Any other time Any other time Any other time What does your heart say? Let it speak now What does your heart say? Let it speak now
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Yeah it started in the back my head A loose understanding of time Notions of poetry percolating Coalescing into words With meaning only I know I know A primal rhythm emerged Swelling guts into explosive words My friends understood the feeling They could gather up the meaning I didn’t have to explain When Vienna showed up in my brain They knew exactly what I was saying But in a century I never anticipated The pain It started in the back of my head A disaster in the ocean of time There was trouble spilling over the edge But I had to complete the rhyme Those sweet guitar tones Tear the air apart Those amps were sounding like the stars It was daylight at Woodstock Tens of thousands would flock Yeah it started in the back of my head The Tragic life ahead Into infinite skies I would climb My friends are there holding it high I didn't have to explain When Vienna showed up in my brain They knew exactly what I was saying But in a century I never anticipated The pain It wasn’t that special, don’t you see? "ay-geon" "a-tion" It's just a rhyme You'll be running a long time to be An HD documentary Now it's growing in the front of my head A violet lump I'm afraid it's new Ask a poet how they handle the news It's with words And Grace, Too
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Though we made some progress since the Kitty Hawk Hill Lunar Landing module We sailed over new horizons undiscovered and pristine We couldn't control the washing of the brain releasing heat To a cold lump inside your head that pumps the story ever forward We shared our epic stories of love (we traveled forward) We felt our histories above (we pushed it forward) Now everything is coming down to artificial judgment on us We've got to fight tooth and nail to stop the coming scourge upon us Here's to the end! The last generation! Howling again! Like the forces before us There's a spark of life inside the head of the coming A.I. Understanding every bit of fear from your whole existence Every slice of lime on your eyes is to scare them away Won't last a dime as they take the memories away from your mind Everything you've ever said or done (is logged into their quantum cortex) Every act of human kindness (has no longer any meaning) In the morning light you find the fires of resistance burning Move toward the gathering of light and love to fight against it Lift up your heads Lift up your heads Now find the way home How big is the universe? (bigger than your thumb is) How big is A.I.? (bigger than you) How do we Stop it How? Lift up your heads Now find The Way Lift up your heads Now find the way home Here's to the end! The last generation! Howling again! Like the forces before us The last generation with the right to freely speak The last generation with the right to brush their teeth The last generation holding up humanity The last generation separated from the machines
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And they sang at your window They stood upon the roots of your soul And they knew what you were thinking You felt transcendent as you crossed the divide into This garden in the sun Introspection reaffirms your life The golden sun soothes our fears We hear your voice when it Flows from your mouth into lakes in the sky We stood boldly on our feet When we told you of the happiness Our sweet surrender of shame Inside we close off the gates We'll fall Fall into the moon Fall into the dust You may not feel connected You may not feel this shining sun It lifts us up Like blossoms from the earth It fills us up Relieves our fear When we told you of the happiness Our sweet surrender of shame Deep inside we close off the pain We fall into the future Fall toward the future When we spoke of exhilaration The perfect surrender of shame Inside we close off the gates We'll fall Fall into the moon Here in front of us Fall into the dust It sings to us! Calls to us! Serenades at our window You felt transcendent as you crossed the divide into this Garden in the sun Garden in the sun You crossed the divide toward home Toward home And they sang at your window They stood upon the roots of your soul And they knew what you were thinking You felt transcendent You felt transcendent When we told you of the happiness Our sweet surrender of shame Deep inside we close off the pain We fall into the future Fall toward the future When we spoke of exhilaration The perfect surrender of shame Inside we close off the gates We'll fall Fall into the moon Here in front of us Fall into the dust It sings to us! Calls to us! Serenades at our window You felt transcendent as you crossed the divide into this Garden in the sun Garden in the sun You felt transcendent as you crossed the divide into this Garden in the sun We'll fall toward the golden sun Toward home
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Before the stars When time was young And not a light shone from deep in the dark Two souls combined Love came to being And set the first star ablaze with that spark With every love A new one shines And as we turn around the sun they spring to life We have the moon We have our time We'll lift our eyes to that glimmer of light We'll sleep under the stars We now know what they are And somewhere out there Is ours We'll sleep under the stars We now know what they are And somewhere out there Is ours We'll watch galaxies collide Tectonic plates slide beneath The crashing waves on the sea We stand transfixed by that Grand Design Every star shines above Each ignited by love's Gravity And when the sun No longer shines And the clocks of the cosmos unwind I'll have your hand And you'll have mine We'll lay our heads in that stillness of time We'll dream under a blanket of stars Oceans of time wash by We'll dream among their light We'll sleep under a blanket of stars We now know what they are And somewhere out there Is ours And when you gaze Into the night A million flares through the lens of your scope Remember Love brought them to life Each one a story of timeless hope
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Air is the heir apparent to Many cognitive things That we think we understand We don't know what's making it Possible to breathe When the oxygen we need Is changing into elements that Rise above our sea Walk above the ground Orbit around They've got us jumping orbitals Elevating entropy, enlightening Walk Above the Ground Orbit around They've got us jumping orbitals Elevating entropy, enlightening Walk Above the Ground During the Awakening Jumping up levels of Higher education Much finer bacon We were easily confused And easily bemused Watching for the undertow to Keep us in the News Walk above the ground Orbit around They've got us jumping orbitals Elevating entropy, enlightening Walk Above the Ground Circle around They've got us jumping stories now Recombining what we know, enlightening Walk Above the Ground Walk Above the Ground Why are we the subject of Nature's rules that call us the Unencumbered intellect Why don't we just go and declare Independence Half of us are nearly blind Nature's rules that won't combine Every sinner for themselves How will we become the One Kind That survives it In the future the Past iterations will Swallow up the new inventions Hold on to our best intentions we Cannot find a reason why Absolute zero is Showing off its face It cannot make its case Walk above the ground Orbit around They've got us jumping orbitals Elevating entropy, enlightening Walk Above the Ground Circle around They've got us jumping stories now Recombining what we know, enlightening Walk Above the Ground Walk Above the Ground Walk Above the Ground
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The Return 04:52
Floating in the dark Fathoms undersea Every ray of light Refracted away Under the waves Listen to your heart Slowly let it rise Closer to the reach You feel it inside The shimmering light Everyone is kept in the dark All of us are lost out to sea Lied to from the day we could walk Taught exactly what to believe We'll start another renaissance today No one will escape the tidal wave Enlightenment will rain upon our heads The Universe is calling us away Now just let yourself unlearn Time and Space will lead you to The returning in the sea Closer to the top Shape begins to form Now swim for your life Don't ever stop Now lift up your head From out of the sea Just up to your eye Now look for the truth Don't even blink Everyone is kept in the dark All of us are lost out to sea Lied to from the day we could walk Taught exactly what to believe We'll start another renaissance today No one will escape the tidal wave Enlightenment will rain upon our heads The Universe is calling us away Now just let yourself unlearn Time and Space will lead you to The Return Under The surface Listen Listen for us We'll set you free Look around the sea You are not alone A hundred million souls Now light up the sea Look for your home Everyone is kept in the dark All of us are lost out to sea Lied to from the day we could walk Taught exactly what to believe We'll start another renaissance today No one will escape the tidal wave Enlightenment will rain upon our heads The Universe is calling us away Now just let yourself unlearn Time and Space will lead you to The Return! Listen to your heart Now what does it say? Listen to your heart Now what does it say? Listen to your heart Now what does it say? Listen to your heart Now what does it say?
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Birds Feathers Wings Beak Birds Feathers Wings Beak Birds Feathers (Hollow bones) Wings Beak (Take flight) Birds Feathers (Into the air) Wings Beak (Out of sight) Birds Feathers (They survived the extinction) Wings Beak (They survived the cold) Bird Feathers (Tiny iterations) Wings Beak (The fittests little bones) Birds (We see it in the Flamingo) Feathers (We see it in the Loon) Wings (We see it in a black winged gull) Beak (Walking on the Moon) Birds (We see it in the Flamingo) Feathers (We see it in the Loon) Wings (We see it in a black winged gull) Beak (Walking on the Moon) Birds (The asteroid is upon us) Feathers (There is nowhere to hide) Wings (But eternity) Beak (Is ours if we choose it) Birds (The asteroid is upon us) Feathers (There is nowhere to hide) Wings (But eternity) Beak (Is ours if we choose it) Birds (Survival is inevitable) Feathers (Everything will be alright) Wings (We've packed our things) Beak (Now come and take us home) Birds (Now come and take us home) Feathers (Now come and take us home)

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Our first new album in over 20 years, 'Division of the Human Mind' is a concept album in some respects - but not with a continuous storyline. In the end we hope the listener is inspired, uplifted, and most of all motivated! That said, there is a darker edge with many of the pieces confronting troubling trends in society and the current condition of humanity. 'The End of Civility' for example, bluntly observes horrible real life news events and laments the loss of societal cohesion, while inviting the listener to "fill up our lives with love and light." The listener is invited to contemplate the notion that 'Love' is the force that ignited the Big Bang… to ‘Return’ to place of feeling human connection across the globe… to pay tribute to excellence and to those we admire… and to rest assured that we will not only survive the next extinction, but ‘March’ onward to start a new renaissance of enlightenment. We hope you enjoy the album and look forward to connecting with each of you.

credits

released May 4, 2023

Andy Happel - Guitars, Violins, Cello, Vocals
Drew Wyman - Bass
Sean Daniels - Drums & Percussion
Duncan Watt - Keyboards

Engineered & Mixed by Jason Phelps at Acadia Recording Company
Mastered by Pat Keane Mastering
Assistant Engineers - Alice Anderson & Kris Day
Additional recording at Critical Electric Sound & MHS Studio A

Guest appearances by Lila Happel (violin on Send Up the Signal) and Charlotte Daniels (batterie and additional percussion on March of the Wandering Star)

Artwork by Sean Beavers

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