Akira The Don, Alan Watts - If You Were God lyrics
[Akira The Don, Alan Watts - If You Were God lyrics]
If looking at it from another way
We push technology
To it's furthest possible development
And we had instead of a dial telephone
On one's desk a more complex
System of buttons and one touch, beep
Would give you anything you want
Aladdin's lamp you would eventually have to
Introduce a button labeled "Surprise"
Surprise
Surprise
Surprise
Are past they have happened
Virtually
It is only the true future is a surprise
It is only the true future is a surprise
So, if you were God
You would say to yourself
And it’s strange
That this idea is obscurely embedded
In the Christian tradition
When in the Epistle to the Philippians
Saint Paul speaks of
God the Son the logos
The Word of God who was incarnate in Christ
And says: Let this mind be in you which
Was also in Christ Jesus
Who being in the form of God
Thought not equality with God a
Thing to be clung to
But made himself of no reputation
And humbled himself
And was found in fashion as a man
And became obedient to death same idea
Same idea as the idea of the dream
That very far out dream
Same idea as the idea of the dream
That very far out dream
Same idea as the idea of the dream
That very far out dream
Same idea as the idea of the dream
Getting as extreme as you can get
As you can get as you can get
And so, this then is the basis
Of the Hindu view of the universe and of Man
The Hindu looks upon the universe as a drama
The Westerner of course
Looks upon the universe as a construct
As something made and it is not therefore
Insignificant that Jesus
Was the son of the carpenter
We push technology
To it's furthest possible development
And we had instead of a dial telephone
On one's desk a more complex
System of buttons and one touch, beep
Would give you anything you want
Aladdin's lamp you would eventually have to
Introduce a button labeled "Surprise"
Surprise
Surprise
Surprise
Are past they have happened
Virtually
It is only the true future is a surprise
It is only the true future is a surprise
So, if you were God
You would say to yourself
And it’s strange
That this idea is obscurely embedded
In the Christian tradition
When in the Epistle to the Philippians
Saint Paul speaks of
God the Son the logos
The Word of God who was incarnate in Christ
And says: Let this mind be in you which
Was also in Christ Jesus
Who being in the form of God
Thought not equality with God a
Thing to be clung to
But made himself of no reputation
And humbled himself
And was found in fashion as a man
And became obedient to death same idea
Same idea as the idea of the dream
That very far out dream
Same idea as the idea of the dream
That very far out dream
Same idea as the idea of the dream
That very far out dream
Same idea as the idea of the dream
Getting as extreme as you can get
As you can get as you can get
And so, this then is the basis
Of the Hindu view of the universe and of Man
The Hindu looks upon the universe as a drama
The Westerner of course
Looks upon the universe as a construct
As something made and it is not therefore
Insignificant that Jesus
Was the son of the carpenter