Akira The Don, Alan Watts - I Don't Know What It's About lyrics

Here is Jan van Eyck
Who paints the eschatological picture
Of the Last Judgement
What a strange man he must have been
Here is heaven above and hell below
And in heaven, here‘s God the Father, God
The Son,  God the Holy Ghost
All that together
And Virgin Mary and the Apostles
And they're all sitting in committee
And they have an aisle like in church
And there they are facing each other
And they're all sitting there very solemnly
And I don't know what it's about

I don't know what it's about
I don't know what it's about

But below, right at the end of the aisle
You see where all these Apostles
Are sitting is Saint Michael
A rather gorgeous figure in
Beautiful armor with wings
And underneath him is a batwing skull
And beneath those bat wings all
Horror is let loose
Michael is about to slosh
That skull, you see, with his sword
But below, whoo! There are nude bodies
Some of them pretty comely
They're all squirming in there and
They're being eaten by worms

I don't know what it's about
I don't know what it's about

And they're eating the worms, and
There's kind of a mush
It's like the sort of situation you find
When you turn up a big rock
There's all that going on underneath
Now there is no question whatever
That van Eyck, the painter
Had more fun painting that
Part of the picture
Than he did painting the top part
So, in the same way with Hieronymus Bosch
And with Bruegel, they painted every
Kind of weird
Surrealistic deviltry going on
And they really loved it
But they couldn’t admit it

I don't know what it's about
I don't know what it's about

I don't know what it's about
I don't know what it's about