Akira The Don, Alan Watts - Listen Kids! lyrics

So, what I'm saying is, I think this
I'm trying to share with
You a certain style of
Life and an attitude to life and an insight
I've taken you on one side and said

Listen kids, things aren't what they seem
Don't be fooled
Listen kids,  things aren't what they seem
Don't be fooled
Listen kids, things aren't what they seem
Don't be fooled
There's a big deception going on
And you're involved in it
But I just thought you ought to know it

I'm terribly puzzled about the way people go
Out of their way to dis-enjoy themselves
It take so much trouble about it
And all around you have only to look
You see this perfect passion
For making the world look grizzly
And it isn't only shop builders and garage
Owners who do this kind of thing
It's also people who profess to be painters
They're actually using excrements for
Painting in Paris, today
On the theory that the world
Is shot to pieces
And that since the artist is
A representative of his times, he ought to
Show the times as they really are
As a social critic
So, he makes the most weird
He paints Campbell's soup cans
And he makes music that shrieks and screams
He just goes out of his way to make it
Sound as ugly as he possibly can manage
And the ingenuity's about that is endless
Because that is the times
He is the critic you see?

Listen kids, things aren't what they seem
Don't be fooled
Listen kids, things aren't what they seem
Don't be fooled
Listen kids, things aren't what they seem
Don't be fooled
There's a big deception going on
And you're involved in it
But I just thought you ought to know it
Let's take the character of the Pied Piper
The person who brings you
An invitation to dance i say then you see
"There is going to be a dance this
Evening and I would like you all
To come" that's the spirit in which
I invite you to a seminar
I am not inviting you in
The spirit of saying, "No
We're going to have to discuss
Some very grave matters
And you ought to be awake to all
These things and arouse
Your social conscious"
When you get through with all that
Then what?
When you get through with all that
Then what?
When you get through with feeding the
Hungry and clothing the naked
And we are making great
Strides with automation
And technology in abolishing poverty totally
Then what are we gonna do?
Then what are we gonna do?
Well you see if you've got
All these people clothed
And fed, and so on, and then they say
"Well now what next?"
If you've got a kind of
Quakerish state of mind
You don't know what to do
Well, feed and clothe somebody else, get busy
But then where is that leading?

Listen kids, things aren't what they seem
Don't be fooled
Listen kids, things aren't what they seem
Don't be fooled
Listen kids, things aren't what they seem
Don't be fooled
There's a big deception going on
And you're involved in it
But I just thought you ought to know it

Listen kids, things aren't what they seem
Don't be fooled
Listen kids, things aren't what they seem
Don't be fooled
Listen kids, things aren't what they seem
Don't be fooled
There's a big deception going on
And you're involved in it
But I just thought you ought to know it