Akira The Don, Alan Watts - Consider Death lyrics
[Akira The Don, Alan Watts - Consider Death lyrics]
So, this is a view of the world
As a system of mutual exploitation
And of maximal selfishness
Now it's a very profitable view to explore
Everybody should do in their
Lifetime sometime (sometime)
Two things, one is to consider death
Consider death
To observe the skulls and skeletons
Consider death (Consider death)
And to wonder what it will be like to
Go to sleep and never wake up never
That is a very gloomy thing for contemplation
But it's like manure
Just as manure fertilizes the
Plants and so on
So the contemplation of death and
The acceptance of death
Is very highly generative with creative life
You get wonderful things out of that
And the other thing to contemplate
Is to follow the
Possibility of the idea that
You are totally selfish
That you don't have a good thing to
Be said for you at all
You are a complete, utter rascal
You are a complete, utter rascal
Now, the Christians have avoided this
Because although they say
In their Episcopalian form of confession
That "We have erred and strayed from thy
Ways like lost sheep and we have
Followed too much the devices and desires
Of our own hearts" too much, you know?
"We have offended against they holy laws we
Have left undone those things we ought
To have done, and done those things which
We ought not to have done
And there is no health in us"
But, it ought to be different
And we're gonna do our best to amend
With the help of God's grace
That is a real con act
If you equate health with genuine
Love and perfect unselfishness
Then in that sense there is
No health in us when
We look at ourselves from this point of view
Consider death
To observe the skulls and skeletons
Consider death (Consider death)
And to wonder what it will be like to
Go to sleep and never wake up never
Consider death
To observe the skulls and skeletons
Consider death (Consider death)
And to wonder what it will be like to
Go to sleep and never wake up never
As a system of mutual exploitation
And of maximal selfishness
Now it's a very profitable view to explore
Everybody should do in their
Lifetime sometime (sometime)
Two things, one is to consider death
Consider death
To observe the skulls and skeletons
Consider death (Consider death)
And to wonder what it will be like to
Go to sleep and never wake up never
That is a very gloomy thing for contemplation
But it's like manure
Just as manure fertilizes the
Plants and so on
So the contemplation of death and
The acceptance of death
Is very highly generative with creative life
You get wonderful things out of that
And the other thing to contemplate
Is to follow the
Possibility of the idea that
You are totally selfish
That you don't have a good thing to
Be said for you at all
You are a complete, utter rascal
You are a complete, utter rascal
Now, the Christians have avoided this
Because although they say
In their Episcopalian form of confession
That "We have erred and strayed from thy
Ways like lost sheep and we have
Followed too much the devices and desires
Of our own hearts" too much, you know?
"We have offended against they holy laws we
Have left undone those things we ought
To have done, and done those things which
We ought not to have done
And there is no health in us"
But, it ought to be different
And we're gonna do our best to amend
With the help of God's grace
That is a real con act
If you equate health with genuine
Love and perfect unselfishness
Then in that sense there is
No health in us when
We look at ourselves from this point of view
Consider death
To observe the skulls and skeletons
Consider death (Consider death)
And to wonder what it will be like to
Go to sleep and never wake up never
Consider death
To observe the skulls and skeletons
Consider death (Consider death)
And to wonder what it will be like to
Go to sleep and never wake up never