Akira The Don, Alan Watts - Food Sex Power lyrics

So in the same way, we
Find that the watching self
Or the observing self, behind all
Our thoughts and feelings
Is it'self a thought that is to say
When the police enter a house
In which there are thieves
The thieves go up from the ground floor
The first floor
When the police arrive on the first floor
The thieves have gone up to the second
And so to the third, and finally
Out to the roof
And so when the еgo is about to be unmasked
It immediatеly identifies with
The higher self it goes up a level
Because the religious game is
Simply a refined
And highbrow version of the ordinary game
How can I outwit me? How can I one-up me?
So, if I find, for example
That in the quest for pleasure
The ordinary pleasures of the world
Food, sex, power, food, sex, power
All this becomes a drag, and I think, "No
It isn't there" so I go in for the
Arts, and literature, poetry, music
And I absorb myself in those pleasures

Food, sex, power
I absorb myself in literature, poetry, music
Those pleasures food, sex, power
I absorb myself in literature, poetry, music
Food, sex, power literature, poetry, music
Food, sex, power

And after a while they aren't the answer
So I go to psychoanalysis
And then I found out that's not the answer
I go to religion
I'm still seeking what I was seeking
When I wanted candy bars
I wanna get that goody
Only, I see now that, of course
Not gonna be a material goody
All material goodies fall apart
But maybe there's a spiritual goody
That's not gonna fall apart
But in that quest
The quest is not different from the
Quest for the candy bar
Same old story, only you've
Refined the candy bar
Made it abstract and holy and blessed
And so on so it is with the higher self
The higher self's your old ego
And you sure hope it is eternal

Food, sex, power
I absorb myself in literature, poetry, music
Those pleasures food, sex, power
I absorb myself in literature, poetry, music
Those pleasures food, sex power
I absorb myself in literature, poetry, music
Those pleasures food, sex, power