“Human Mind” by Mavis Staples

Hozier and Allison Russell wrote "Human Mind", and Mavis Staples made it the fourth and final single from Sad and Beautiful World, her fourteenth solo studio album, sending it to radio through ANTI- on November 3, 2025, four days before the album arrived. It's a sorrowful look around at the world: the first verse takes in wildfires and children lost to war, and remembers relatives of hers who have died.

Brad Cook produced it and plays bass, acoustic guitar and drum machine, with Phil Cook on piano, electric piano, organ and guitars, Rick Holmstrom on electric guitar, Matt Douglas on saxophone, Matt McCaughan on drums and Anjimile singing backup. Staples took it to Stephen Colbert's Late Show to promote it.

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