Akira The Don, Alan Watts - The Same Magnet (WATTSWAVE V: WEB OF LIFE) lyrics
[Akira The Don, Alan Watts - The Same Magnet WATTSWAVE V: WEB OF LIFE lyrics]
The outside thing that you see
And the inside thing that you are
Are poles – of the same magnet
Or back and front of the same coin
Without one there isn’t the other
That means, of course, then
That we are living in the midst
Of a world of animals
Vegetables, minerals, atmospheres
Astronomical bodies that’s highly intelligent
It’s intelligence concentrated, crystallized
In our brains
That’s where it comes out, you see?
In any field
The outside thing that you see
And the inside thing that you are
Are poles – of the same magnet
Or back and front of the same coin
Without one there isn’t the other
Let’s take any field of forces
Take a chemical solution, and at certain
Critical points in this chemical solution
The crystals start to form
And so, in the same way
The total intelligence of this whole
Universe crystallizes in human brains
Also in other kinds of brains
That’s where it really comes out
But it’s the total intelligence of the
Whole field that does this
So we go with the whole
Thing interdepend with it
The outside thing that you see
And the inside thing that you are
Are poles – of the same magnet
Or back and front of the same coin
Without one there isn’t the other
We don’t live in an environment which is
Just rock, just air, just atmosphere
And so on the environment’s only like that
When we think about
It analytically and try to explain it
But when we think of, "It isn’t
Just rock and air, " see
But "those things go together"
When you see the interconnectedness, when you
See, in the simplest way
How flowers go with bees
And other insects they don’t
Live without them humans go with cattle
They don’t exist without them
Plants, etc, etc, etc
When you see the intervals
The significance of the relationships between
These things, it’s only then
When you see that
That you are aware of the melody
The outside thing that you see
And the inside thing that you are
Are poles – of the same magnet
Or back and front of the same coin
Without one there isn’t the other
The person who can’t hear melody
Who is tone-deaf
He only hears a succession of sounds
Because he’s not aware of the intervals
Now, most people are brought up
To be tone-deaf in respect
To their own existence and the
Rest of the universe
They don’t see the relationships
They’re not aware of the unity
Once you spot that
You spot how everything goes with the thing
But you are one end and that, out there
Is the other end and they really go together
Then you may be said to
Be living a harmonious life
And the inside thing that you are
Are poles – of the same magnet
Or back and front of the same coin
Without one there isn’t the other
That means, of course, then
That we are living in the midst
Of a world of animals
Vegetables, minerals, atmospheres
Astronomical bodies that’s highly intelligent
It’s intelligence concentrated, crystallized
In our brains
That’s where it comes out, you see?
In any field
The outside thing that you see
And the inside thing that you are
Are poles – of the same magnet
Or back and front of the same coin
Without one there isn’t the other
Let’s take any field of forces
Take a chemical solution, and at certain
Critical points in this chemical solution
The crystals start to form
And so, in the same way
The total intelligence of this whole
Universe crystallizes in human brains
Also in other kinds of brains
That’s where it really comes out
But it’s the total intelligence of the
Whole field that does this
So we go with the whole
Thing interdepend with it
The outside thing that you see
And the inside thing that you are
Are poles – of the same magnet
Or back and front of the same coin
Without one there isn’t the other
We don’t live in an environment which is
Just rock, just air, just atmosphere
And so on the environment’s only like that
When we think about
It analytically and try to explain it
But when we think of, "It isn’t
Just rock and air, " see
But "those things go together"
When you see the interconnectedness, when you
See, in the simplest way
How flowers go with bees
And other insects they don’t
Live without them humans go with cattle
They don’t exist without them
Plants, etc, etc, etc
When you see the intervals
The significance of the relationships between
These things, it’s only then
When you see that
That you are aware of the melody
The outside thing that you see
And the inside thing that you are
Are poles – of the same magnet
Or back and front of the same coin
Without one there isn’t the other
The person who can’t hear melody
Who is tone-deaf
He only hears a succession of sounds
Because he’s not aware of the intervals
Now, most people are brought up
To be tone-deaf in respect
To their own existence and the
Rest of the universe
They don’t see the relationships
They’re not aware of the unity
Once you spot that
You spot how everything goes with the thing
But you are one end and that, out there
Is the other end and they really go together
Then you may be said to
Be living a harmonious life