Akira The Don, Alan Watts - Play On Demand lyrics

The sense that you just have to go on living
That life is a ‘must’
When you say to anything spontaneous,  see
Life is spontaneous
It happens in the words of
The Taoists – zìrán
Which means "of it'self so"
That’s the Chinese expression for nature
What happens by it'self what isn’t pushed
But it just pops up, you see?
You came into being, you know?
It happens in a kind of a plop! way, like
That, see? Now, you can’t tell that process
"You ought to happen! You must happen!"
Because that puts a bind on it in the
Same way as when you have a child
And all the relatives
Have come to a party on Thanksgiving
The child into the
Middle of all the relatives
And say, "Now, dear, play!"

Now, dear, play now, dear, play
Play on demand play on demand
Play on demand play
Say, "Now, dear, play" now, dear, play
Play on demand play on demand
Play on demand play

See? It absolutely bugs the child
To do it like that
And so this is the problem for every artist
Because an artist is a man who
Makes his living by playing
Whether he’s dancing, or painting
Or playing music, or whatever it is
And he has to overcome this problem
He has to know how to play in public
At a given time on an appointment, see?
And that’s not an easy thing to learn
But when you catch on to the trick of it
You can do it to play on demand
That’s the hardest lesson of
Life: to contrive
What is called by my Japanese artist friend
Saburo Hasegawa – a controlled accident

Now, dear, play now, dear, play
Play on demand play on demand
Play on demand play
Say, "Now, dear, play" now, dear, play
Play on demand play on demand
Play on demand play

Now, dear, play now, dear, play
Play on demand play on demand
Play on demand play
Say, "Now, dear, play" now, dear, play
Play on demand play on demand
Play on demand play