Akira The Don, Alan Watts - There Will Be Noise lyrics

You know the old question, "If a tree crashes
In a forest and there
Is nobody around to hear it
Is there a noise?"
This question has been discussed in
Many futile ways but noise
Basically is a state of affairs that requires
An eardrum and an
Audio nervous system behind the eardrum
When the tree falls
If there is anywhere around
An ear with the appropriate nervous system
There will be a noise because noise is a
Relationship between motion
In the air and ears
If there is not any ear around
There won’t be any noise although there
Will be vibration in the air
And if there is some instrument around
Such as a microphone attached
To a tape recorder

There will be noise
There will be a vibration
There will be light in the darkness

In the same way, let’s suppose the sun sends
Out light into space
Now, the space surrounding the sun
Will be black darkness
As if there were no light in it
Unless a planet happens to float by
When a planet floats by, there will be light
In the darkness
But if there isn’t anything to relate
To the sun in that way, then comes no light
Now this goes right down to the
Root and ground of everything
It goes down to the essence of your nerves
Of your whole being
That it’s all an interdependence

There will be noise
There will be a vibration
There will be light in the darkness
There will be noise
There will be a vibration
There will be light in the darkness

And that’s why one of the basic symbols of
The universe is the Chinese yin yang symbol
Which, you know
Is a circle with an S-curve in the center
One side of the S is black
The other is white
So it makes, as it were, two commas
Or two fishes
And the eye of the fish is the opposite color
The white fish has a black eye
The black fish has a white eye
Curling in on each other
Now, this thing is called a helix
And that is the fundamental
Form of the galaxies
The great nebulae we see out in space
And this is, basically, too
The position of sexual intercourse
This is lovemaking
And this is, you know, when you hold hands
And so on this is it
This is it

There will be noise
There will be a vibration
There will be light in the darkness
There will be noise
There will be a vibration
There will be light in the darkness

But there are two involved
And the two are secretly one