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My Metaphysical Mama

from Love Hierarchy by Jesse Laine

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My metaphysical mama
Forget the crass, she got more sass than Madonna
Says I should head back to school but I don’t wanna,
That’s why I’m losing my metaphysical mama
I may be liberal but it’s all too literal for my metaphysical mama

I’m just a neo neanderthal gnostic
Apparently it’s my fault the world has gone caustic
My black and white won’t even get me to college
Not when all the world is going post knowledge
I’m aiming straight for the heart but divisions of time won’t let me part
My metaphysical mama

She’s colder than empirical science
Her love’s a theory of co-habitational reliance
Nothing’s ever solved it’s just eternity to haggle
More words than wise, we may as well be reading Hegel
But no matter how much I dig her, I ain’t no Heidegger for
My metaphysical mama

She’s a loose ethereal matter
A swirl of ideas no religion can get at her
Nietzsche’s god is dead, the Greeks are ancient and tattered
Man, only Marx is leaving here unbattered
It’s just like Einstein states, “There ain’t no fixed point in space”
No wonder I can’t touch my metaphysical mama

The world’s gone dark since enlightenment thinking
No more fairy tales, no more alchemic tinkering
But Noah’s building his boat to float the world that’s all shrinking
But she’s hell bent on poking holes till that thing’s sinking
She doesn’t do like she should, ‘cause life don’t have to be good -
All’s fair in art and critical thinking

So I ask you my metaphysical mama -
What to do about this world of piranhas?
Cut in two and leave the trash on the bottom?
Or carry on and just do like we wanna?
It ain’t so cynical, but I say love is critical when fate’s upon us

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from Love Hierarchy, released October 9, 2012

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Jesse Laine Toronto, Ontario

Debut album ‘Love Hierarchy’ out October 2012: A diverse yet cohesive collection of original songs in a folk/rock, chamber/pop style.

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