Name: Tie Mao to Mined
Duration: P00H02M29S
Description: Originally surfacing as a B-side to my first single "Miss Me" - which sold out of its run of 50 cassettes - this song has traveled a long ways and continues to morph in a variety of ways. but the theme remains: it's a mind you can trick into confinement, consignment, or alignment.

Tie Mao to Mined

from Critique of Nature by Luke Sweeney

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Originally surfacing as a B-side to my first single "Miss Me" - which sold out of its run of 50 cassettes - this song has traveled a long ways and continues to morph in a variety of ways. but the theme remains: it's a mind you can trick into confinement, consignment, or alignment.

lyrics

trapped in the house again
bold as a mouse in an observatory
it’s easy to see I’m whipped cream in a can
a flash in the pan
rehearsing my lines
for the deafening youth
and their convictionless crimes

it’s time
time out of mind
a mind you can trick
into confinement

bored off the chore wheel,
an orgy of ordeal
the sanitary host Is dealing vaccines to ghosts
and I’m leaving my guests alone
to froth at the bone and pick at my throne
rehearsing my lines
for the sedimentary age
and its compostable spines

it’s time
time out of mind
a mind you can trick
into consignment
man made borders
and seams
closer he seems to his home

awkward-bound handshake
fist-bumping birthquake
the city’s asleep in pajamas
safekeeping its private property
publicly spade
rehearsing my lines
for the armchair resistance
so tune in and listen!

(it’s time) time out of mind
a mind you can trick into alignment
man made borders and seems closer
he seems to his home

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from Critique of Nature, released April 3, 2021
recorded on Howard St. in San Francisco, CA
drums by Brett Eastman
bass by Jerome Steegmans
all other instrumentation by Luke Sweeney

engineered by Lucas Boilon & Brett Eastman
mixed by Brett Eastman
Produced by Brett Eastman & Luke Sweeney
Mastered by Brett Eastman

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Luke Sweeney San Francisco, California

A bicycle crash left a young Sweeney with his jaw wired shut for six weeks, and in recovering, his sustenance was on a guitar. What was he chasing?

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