NEW SONG: The Gates Of Heaven
The latest song from The Savage Mind
With distance from our selves, understanding becomes transformational. Without reflection, the journey is just motion through time and space.
For over a century, psychologists working within a broadly existential framework have placed meaning-making at the centre of our lived experience: Maslow's 'self-actualisation', Jung's 'individuation', May's 'courage to create', Fromm's 'freedom through love', and Frankl's 'will to meaning', to name just a few. Each point towards a developmental process that aligns the human ego with something greater – something transcendent.
For some this is society, or politics, or the greater good. For others it is an ungraspable divine presence. For some it is God.
This song is about that journey. I'll pull no punches. This is a song about the human mind grappling with the absolute – and realising faith.
It was written during the sessions for our full length album Totemism - and thrown onto the band one morning. And in a way that epitomises Ed, Josh and Tarrant – they smashed it. These guys ability to stand in the creative fire with open minds and open ears, and then to actualise a musical vision, always staggers me.
Thank you for being here, you could literally be anywhere else – and God knows there's plenty of spaces more desperate for, and more worthy of, your attention. But here we are.
So hit play, and spend a few minutes with The Savage Mind.
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Here's an MP3 for you to download if you so please:
LYRICS
Well I've read a lot of words, said a lot of things
Tried to make sense of the philosophical kings
Imperatives and fictions, categorical contradictions
Teleology, psychology inferiority restrictions
All points to the human mind being a wonderful thing
Of fragility and lability all balanced on a shoe-string
Well I've faced my heart of darkness
Fixed my ship upon the shore
Hypothesised and realised, that forever more
I was waiting for something
Something like you
Or someone just like You
Well from what I can deduce, we're all little Knights of Faith
Either red pilled or blue pilled, saving our selves or saving grace
Is property theft? Or is might right?
Is it the workers or the people of the world that should unite?
Do you love your neighbour before affirming they love you?
Do you watch the war on TV and think 'well here's what humans do'?
Do you ever stop and question the structure of the equation?
Deconstruct the situation and the language used?
Standing at the gates of Heaven
I was waiting for something
Something like you
Or someone just like You
Iain Eccleston - Guitar, Vocals
Ed Gerlach - Bass
Josh Armitage - Drums
Tarrant Shepherd - Guitar, Backing Vocals
Written by Iain Eccleston
Produced by Iain Eccleston and Tarrant Shepherd
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Tarrant Shepherd at 13 Sound Studios, Somerset, England
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