Mother Earth is pregnant for the third time
For y'all have knocked her up.
I have tasted the maggots in the mind of the universe
I was not offended
For I knew I had to rise above it all
Or drown in my own shit.
The story goes that Funkadelic was tripping pretty hard when band leader George Clinton told Eddie Hazel to play like his mother just died.
"I told him to play like his mother had died, to picture that day, what he would feel, how he would make sense of his life, how he would take a measure of everything that was inside him."
Hazel’s mind might not have been in the room at the moment, but he then proceeds to leave earth all together with this solo. For 10 minutes, he weeps through his guitar, speaking a universal language and we all know exactly what it’s saying. Tell me you don’t hear the pain in the guitar at the 2:00 minute mark, panic and grief. The other band members had actually played alongside him in the studio, but were subsequently stripped afterwards to highlight the insanity that Hazel had just laid down.
