Akira The Don, Alan Watts - Patterns On The Waves lyrics

Now, I want to put it two ways
I’m not saying that it’s a bad
Thing, something to be condemned
To take your own individual life seriously
 in dead earnest
And to have all the problems
That go with that
Do understand that being that way
That being a real mixed-up human being
Is a manifestation of nature
That is something just like the patterns
On the waves out here

Patterns on the waves patterns on the waves
Patterns on the waves patterns on the waves

Or like a seashell?
You know, we pick up shells
I always keep one around
As sort of an example for many things
And say, "My goodness
Isn’t that gorgeous!" There’s not
An aesthetic fault
In it anywhere it’s absolutely perfect
Now, I wonder i wonder if these fish look
At each other’s shells and
Say, "Don’t you think she’s kind
Of fat? Oh my, those markings aren’t really
Very well spaced" because that’s what we do

Patterns on the waves patterns on the waves
That’s what we do patterns on the waves
Patterns on the waves that’s what we do

See, we don’t realize that all of
Us, in our various goings-on
And behavior, and so on are
More marvelous, much more complicated
Much more interesting
All these gorgeous faces that I’m looking at
You know, every one of them
Some of them are supposedly pretty, some of
Them are supposedly not so pretty
But they’re all absolutely gorgeous
And everybody’s eyes is a piece
Of jewelry beyond compare beautiful!
Beautiful! Beautiful!
Beautiful! Beautiful!

Patterns on the waves patterns on the waves
That’s what we do patterns on the waves
Patterns on the waves that’s what we do