Akira The Don, Alan Watts - Organized Mess lyrics
[Akira The Don, Alan Watts - Organized Mess lyrics]
Another way of talking about the web
Is that there are different
Levels of magnification for example
supposing you take a piece of embroidery
And here it is, obviously
In front of you an
Ordered and beautiful object
And then you take out a microscope
And you look at the individual threads
At a certain point, as you
Turn up the microscope
You’ll get a hopeless tangle
Which doesn’t make any sense at all
The wrapped fiber that constitutes the
Thread is a mess hasn’t been organized
Nobody did anything about it but
At the level of
Magnification at which you actually see
It with the naked eye
It’s all been organized
It’s all been organized
It’s all been organized
It’s all been organized
Alright, now keep turning up that microscope
Take one of those individual threads in the
Fiber that seems to be so chaotic
And go into the constitution of that
And again, you’ll find fantastic order
You’ll find the most gorgeous
Designs of molecules
Then, keep turning it up and again
At a certain level you’ll find chaos again
Alright, keep going
And at another level you’ll
Find there’s marvelous order
Now, you see, order and randomness
Constitute – in other words
The warp and the woof
Where everything is in order, everything’s
Under control in randomness, it’s all
It’s all been organized but it’s a mess
It’s all been organized but it’s a mess
It’s all been organized but it’s a mess
It’s all been organized but it’s a mess
It’s all been organized but it’s a mess
It’s all been organized but it’s a mess
It’s all been organized but it’s a mess
It’s all been organized but it’s a mess
But we wouldn’t know what order was
Unless we had messes
It’s the contrast of order and messes
That order it'self depends upon
And so in exactly the same way
It is the contrast of on and
Off, there and not there – in
Other words, life and death
Being and non-being –
That constitutes existence
Only, we pretend that the random side of
Things, the disorderly side of things
Could possibly win in the game
Of competition or I
Would rather call it collaboration
Between the two
When you lose sight of the fact that
The order-principle and the
Random-principle go together
That’s exactly the same predicament as
Losing sight of the
Fact that all individually delineated
Things and beings are connected underneath
You know, just like mountains stick out of
The Earth and there’s a
Fundamental Earth underneath them, so all
Of us, as different things
We stick out of reality
And there’s a continuity underneath
But you ignore that, you see?
That’s the thing that’s left out
It’s all been organized but it’s a mess
It’s all been organized but it’s a mess
It’s all been organized but it’s a mess
It’s all been organized but it’s a mess
It’s all been organized but it’s a mess
It’s all been organized but it’s a mess
It’s all been organized but it’s a mess
It’s all been organized but it’s a mess
See? I’m just giving you many
Examples of the same principle
Is that there are different
Levels of magnification for example
supposing you take a piece of embroidery
And here it is, obviously
In front of you an
Ordered and beautiful object
And then you take out a microscope
And you look at the individual threads
At a certain point, as you
Turn up the microscope
You’ll get a hopeless tangle
Which doesn’t make any sense at all
The wrapped fiber that constitutes the
Thread is a mess hasn’t been organized
Nobody did anything about it but
At the level of
Magnification at which you actually see
It with the naked eye
It’s all been organized
It’s all been organized
It’s all been organized
It’s all been organized
Alright, now keep turning up that microscope
Take one of those individual threads in the
Fiber that seems to be so chaotic
And go into the constitution of that
And again, you’ll find fantastic order
You’ll find the most gorgeous
Designs of molecules
Then, keep turning it up and again
At a certain level you’ll find chaos again
Alright, keep going
And at another level you’ll
Find there’s marvelous order
Now, you see, order and randomness
Constitute – in other words
The warp and the woof
Where everything is in order, everything’s
Under control in randomness, it’s all
It’s all been organized but it’s a mess
It’s all been organized but it’s a mess
It’s all been organized but it’s a mess
It’s all been organized but it’s a mess
It’s all been organized but it’s a mess
It’s all been organized but it’s a mess
It’s all been organized but it’s a mess
It’s all been organized but it’s a mess
But we wouldn’t know what order was
Unless we had messes
It’s the contrast of order and messes
That order it'self depends upon
And so in exactly the same way
It is the contrast of on and
Off, there and not there – in
Other words, life and death
Being and non-being –
That constitutes existence
Only, we pretend that the random side of
Things, the disorderly side of things
Could possibly win in the game
Of competition or I
Would rather call it collaboration
Between the two
When you lose sight of the fact that
The order-principle and the
Random-principle go together
That’s exactly the same predicament as
Losing sight of the
Fact that all individually delineated
Things and beings are connected underneath
You know, just like mountains stick out of
The Earth and there’s a
Fundamental Earth underneath them, so all
Of us, as different things
We stick out of reality
And there’s a continuity underneath
But you ignore that, you see?
That’s the thing that’s left out
It’s all been organized but it’s a mess
It’s all been organized but it’s a mess
It’s all been organized but it’s a mess
It’s all been organized but it’s a mess
It’s all been organized but it’s a mess
It’s all been organized but it’s a mess
It’s all been organized but it’s a mess
It’s all been organized but it’s a mess
See? I’m just giving you many
Examples of the same principle