Akira The Don, Alan Watts - That's The Way It Goes lyrics
[Akira The Don, Alan Watts - That's The Way It Goes lyrics]
Take the contrast between the words we use
Explicit and implicit
They’re very valuable words
What is explicit, what’s on the
Outside, that’s, say
How we come on publically
Explicitly we are thus and so we have a fight
We’re in competition, say, in business
Explicitly
But implicitly, we’ve worked this out
We’ve agreed, in a secret way
That nobody knows about
That this competition is extremely valuable
To both of us
Take it politically, for example
Let’s take the situation of Russia
Versus the United States
Explicitly, in public
This has to be a big fight
These two ways of life, these two ideologies
Are opposed
They say, "brrrraagh, " you know?
But behind the scenes it’s all
Been carefully worked out you bet it has
That this opposition has to happen
Because our economy depends
On it, and their economy depends on it
And everybody knows this who’s smart
But there are a lot of
People who get taken in
By the propaganda, and they
Should be taken in
Because that makes the thing work
It’s crazy, but that’s the way it goes
It’s crazy, but that’s the way it goes
It’s crazy, but that’s the way it goes
It’s crazy, but that’s the way it goes
And everything works this way
When swans start to mate, they’re not
Sure what they’re supposed to do
And they begin to fight
I had a long talk about this with C g jung
He lived on the edge of Lake Zürich
And he had a little summer house right
On the water’s edge
And there were many swans there
And I was getting up after the
End of a conversation with him
And we were beginning to walk back to
The main house, and I said
"Isn’t it true that swans are monogamous?"
And he said, "Yes, they are"
He said, "Do you know
I have had most interesting relationships
Between these swans and many
Of my female patients who
Thought they were homosexual"
And Jung wasn’t a sexual snob – I mean
He understood all the legitimacy of
All kinds of sexual variations but he said
"It has been a point of
Departure for our discussions"
And he said, "It’s a very funny thing
That, when they begin to mate, they
Start fighting and they don’t know what
It’s all about, and then, suddenly
The fight turns into lovemaking"
So that’s what I mean
Underneath opposition there is love
Underneath duality there’s unity
That Tweedledum and Tweedledee agreed
To have a battle
It’s crazy, but that’s the way it goes
It’s crazy, but that’s the way it goes
It’s crazy, but that’s the way it goes
It’s crazy, but that’s the way it goes
See, here’s that weaving principle
That things hold together by over-under
Under-over, over-under, under-over
Over-under, under-over
And that creates a stuff, it creates a
Fabric, it creates clothing
It creates shelter
It creates what we call matter
Matter – Mater – Mother
And also, the same word, māyā, "illusion"
See? The world as a marvelous illusion
It’s crazy, but that’s the way it goes
It’s crazy, but that’s the way it goes
It’s crazy, but that’s the way it goes
It’s crazy, but that’s the way it goes
A marvelous illusion a marvelous illusion
A marvelous illusion a marvelous illusion
Explicit and implicit
They’re very valuable words
What is explicit, what’s on the
Outside, that’s, say
How we come on publically
Explicitly we are thus and so we have a fight
We’re in competition, say, in business
Explicitly
But implicitly, we’ve worked this out
We’ve agreed, in a secret way
That nobody knows about
That this competition is extremely valuable
To both of us
Take it politically, for example
Let’s take the situation of Russia
Versus the United States
Explicitly, in public
This has to be a big fight
These two ways of life, these two ideologies
Are opposed
They say, "brrrraagh, " you know?
But behind the scenes it’s all
Been carefully worked out you bet it has
That this opposition has to happen
Because our economy depends
On it, and their economy depends on it
And everybody knows this who’s smart
But there are a lot of
People who get taken in
By the propaganda, and they
Should be taken in
Because that makes the thing work
It’s crazy, but that’s the way it goes
It’s crazy, but that’s the way it goes
It’s crazy, but that’s the way it goes
It’s crazy, but that’s the way it goes
And everything works this way
When swans start to mate, they’re not
Sure what they’re supposed to do
And they begin to fight
I had a long talk about this with C g jung
He lived on the edge of Lake Zürich
And he had a little summer house right
On the water’s edge
And there were many swans there
And I was getting up after the
End of a conversation with him
And we were beginning to walk back to
The main house, and I said
"Isn’t it true that swans are monogamous?"
And he said, "Yes, they are"
He said, "Do you know
I have had most interesting relationships
Between these swans and many
Of my female patients who
Thought they were homosexual"
And Jung wasn’t a sexual snob – I mean
He understood all the legitimacy of
All kinds of sexual variations but he said
"It has been a point of
Departure for our discussions"
And he said, "It’s a very funny thing
That, when they begin to mate, they
Start fighting and they don’t know what
It’s all about, and then, suddenly
The fight turns into lovemaking"
So that’s what I mean
Underneath opposition there is love
Underneath duality there’s unity
That Tweedledum and Tweedledee agreed
To have a battle
It’s crazy, but that’s the way it goes
It’s crazy, but that’s the way it goes
It’s crazy, but that’s the way it goes
It’s crazy, but that’s the way it goes
See, here’s that weaving principle
That things hold together by over-under
Under-over, over-under, under-over
Over-under, under-over
And that creates a stuff, it creates a
Fabric, it creates clothing
It creates shelter
It creates what we call matter
Matter – Mater – Mother
And also, the same word, māyā, "illusion"
See? The world as a marvelous illusion
It’s crazy, but that’s the way it goes
It’s crazy, but that’s the way it goes
It’s crazy, but that’s the way it goes
It’s crazy, but that’s the way it goes
A marvelous illusion a marvelous illusion
A marvelous illusion a marvelous illusion