Akira The Don, Alan Watts - Grace lyrics

You want grace?
Well, ask God, maybe he'll give it to you
And the theologian will tell you, "Yes, God
Gives his grace freely he gives it to all
Because he loves all it's here
 like the air all you have to
Do is receive it" or a more orthodox, a
Catholic Christian would say, "All
You have to do is to be baptized, to
Take the holy sacrament of the altar
The bread
And wine, the body and blood of Christ
And there is the grace right therе
And it's given by these
Simplе physical means so
That it's very easily and readily available
Well, a lot of people got baptized
And it doesn't always take
People fall from grace why do they?
You see, we're just talking about
The same old problem
But we've put it a step up
But it's the same problem
How can I improve myself?
Was the first problem the second problem is

You want grace? I want grace, we want grace
Hey
You want grace? I want grace, we want grace
Hey
You want grace? I want grace, we want grace
Hey
You want grace? I want grace, we want grace
Hey

How can I accept grace? They're
Both the same problem
Because you've got to make a move
Which will put yourself out
Of your own control
Into the control of a better
If you don't believe in the
Christian kind of a God
You can believe in the Hindu kind of a God
Who is your inner self
You see, you've got a lower self
Which you can call your ego
That's that little scoundrelous fellow
Who's always out for me
But behind the ego, there is the Atman
The inner self
The inward light, as Quakers would
Call it, the real self, the spirit
Which is substantially identical with God
So, you've got to meditate in such a way
That you identify with your higher self
How do you do that?
Well, you start by watching
All your thoughts, very
Carefully, watching your feelings
Watching your emotions
So that you begin to build
Up a sense of separation
Between the watcher and what is watched

You want grace? I want grace, we want grace
Hey
You want grace? I want grace, we want grace
Hey
You want grace? I want grace, we want grace
Hey
You want grace? I want grace, we want grace
Hey

So that you are, as it were
No longer carried away by your
Own stream of conscious
You remain the witness, impassively
Impartially suspending judgment
And watching it all go on
That seems to be something like progress
At least you're taking an objective view
Of what is going on of what is going on
You're beginning to be in a
Position to control it
But just wait a minute!
Who is this self behind the self
The watching self? Can you watch that one?
It's interesting if you do, because you find
Out, of course, that this is
Just as the problem of grace
It is nothing more than a
Transposition of the first problem
How am I to be unselfish by my own power?
It becomes how am I to get
Grace by my own power?