Akira The Don, Alan Watts - It Takes Two lyrics

The Buddhists in Japan call it jiji muge
Jiji muge: "between event and event
There is no block"
And they represent this, imagistically
As a network
Imagine a multidimensional spiderweb
Covered in dew in the morning
And every single drop of dew on this web
Contains in it the reflections
Of all the other drops of dew
And, of course, in turn, in every drop
Of dew that one drop reflects
There is the reflection of
All the others again
And they use this image to represent the
Interdependence of everything in the world

You see, it takes two
We could have so much fun
But it takes more than one
You see, it takes two


We could have so much fun
But it takes more than one
And she don’t wanna!

In other words, if we give this dewdrop-image
If we put it into a linguistic analogy
We would say this: "Words have
Meaning only in context"
The meaning of any word
Depends upon the sentence
Or upon the paragraph in which it’s found
So that, if I say, "This tree has no bark
" that’s one thing
And if I say, "This dog has no bark
" that’s another thing so, you see always
The meaning of the word is
In relation to the context
Now, in exactly the same way, the meaning
As well as the existence of an
Individual person, an organism
Is in relation to the context
You are what you are, sitting here at this
Moment, in your particular kind of clothes
And with the
Particular colors of your faces
And your particular personalities
Your family involvements, your business
Involvements, your neuroses
And your everything
You are that precisely in relation
To an extremely complex environment

You see, it takes two
We could have so much fun
But it takes more than one
You see, it takes two
We could have so much fun
But it takes more than one
And she don’t wanna!

If a given star that we observe didn’t exist
You would be different from what you are now
I don’t say you wouldn’t exist
But you would exist differently
But you might say the
Connection is very faint, is
Something you don’t ordinarily have
To think about, it’s not important
But basically, it is important, only you say
"I don’t have to think about it
Because it’s there all the time"
See, for example
The floor is underneath you all the time
Some sort of floor, some sort of earth
And you really don’t have to think about it
It’s just always there it’s always around
If you become insensitive you
Stop thinking about it but there it is
And so, in the same way
Our subtle interdependence with
Mind you, it’s not just our plain existence
It’s the kind of existence we have
Is dependent upon all these things
Also our plain existence
But that gets way down
But the fundamental thing is:
Existence is relationship
In other words, if my finger
Up here, is all alone
And the wind doesn’t move
And nothing touches it
It stops knowing that it’s there
But if something comes along
And does tch-tch-tch-tch-tch-tch-tch-tch-tch
Immediately, it’s aware that it’s there
So… (Laughter)

You see, it takes two
We could have so much fun
But it takes more than one
You see, it takes two
We could have so much fun
But it takes more than one
And she don’t wanna!
But in this way, you see
What we call duality you can see, can’t you
How duality is fundamental it takes two
But duality is always secretly unity unity
Duality is always secretly unity unity
Unity unity
Unity