Liner Notes

Music copyright 2024 © The 21st Century Monads

Music and lyrics by Kris McDaniel.

Kris McDaniel: vocals, bass melodion, bass xylophone, clarinet, nova dood, soprano recorder, stellar flutes

Laura Callahan: vocals

Cover art by Carrie Jenkins.

Lyrics

This is the way of negation
Where you tell me what it is not
This is a source of frustration
For no insight into its nature is caught

This is the way of example
Where you try to display what you mean
By drawing attention to a sample
And hoping that your meaning is seen

This is the way of conflation
Where you tell me something else means the same
Almost a kind of translation
The same objects by another name

This is the way of abstraction
Do you focus on a part of the thing?
Or is it a kind of intellectual contraction
Where a thing is incompletely conceived?

These are the ways with which
you’ve tried to tell me what your meaning is
And I can’t follow you
But I’m not sure these terms still are needed