Akira The Don, Alan Watts - A Really Swinging Human lyrics
[Akira The Don, Alan Watts - A Really Swinging Human lyrics]
Now, what I would call a
Really swinging human being
Is a person who lives on two levels at once
He’s able to live on the level of
Being his ordinary ego
His everyday personality
And play his role in life, and
To observe all the rules, and so on
That go with that
But if he is only on that level
If he’s only playing that kind of thing
And thinks that’s all there is
It becomes a drag he starts
Being the kind of person
Who feels that he’s just got
To go on surviving
It’s terribly important to go
On surviving to live and he works at that
And his children learn the
Same attitude from him and he says, "Well
I’ve got to survive because I’ve got all
These children I have to support
" and so on, and so forth
And then they take the same attitude
And they breed up children, and they feel
Compulsive about supporting them
Because they’ve got to go on
And so nobody really has any fun
It’s just… "Ungh! Ungh! Ungh! Ungh!"
You’ve got to make this thing you see?
And you don’t have to
See, whenever I get somebody who
Comes to me and says
"I really can’t go on i
Have to commit suicide, "
I say, "Well
That’s entirely your right there’s
Really no reason why
You should go on, and if
You want to commit suicide, do it"
You can check out of course
This reduces anxiety when they feel
Free to commit suicide
They don’t really have to
Commit suicide so much (Laughter)
You know, you can commit partial suicide
(Laughter)
Really swinging human being
Is a person who lives on two levels at once
He’s able to live on the level of
Being his ordinary ego
His everyday personality
And play his role in life, and
To observe all the rules, and so on
That go with that
But if he is only on that level
If he’s only playing that kind of thing
And thinks that’s all there is
It becomes a drag he starts
Being the kind of person
Who feels that he’s just got
To go on surviving
It’s terribly important to go
On surviving to live and he works at that
And his children learn the
Same attitude from him and he says, "Well
I’ve got to survive because I’ve got all
These children I have to support
" and so on, and so forth
And then they take the same attitude
And they breed up children, and they feel
Compulsive about supporting them
Because they’ve got to go on
And so nobody really has any fun
It’s just… "Ungh! Ungh! Ungh! Ungh!"
You’ve got to make this thing you see?
And you don’t have to
See, whenever I get somebody who
Comes to me and says
"I really can’t go on i
Have to commit suicide, "
I say, "Well
That’s entirely your right there’s
Really no reason why
You should go on, and if
You want to commit suicide, do it"
You can check out of course
This reduces anxiety when they feel
Free to commit suicide
They don’t really have to
Commit suicide so much (Laughter)
You know, you can commit partial suicide
(Laughter)