Akira The Don, Alan Watts - This Way That Way lyrics

Really, deep down, we are – each one of us
– everything that there is
Doing it this way, and then again that way
And then again another way
Doing it this way, and then again that way
And then again another way
Really, deep down, we are – each one of us
– everything that there is
Doing it this way, and then again that way
And then again another way
And that’s what it keeps up doing for ever
And ever

Only, it has holidays
Which are called deaths
You know, in the story of
The creation of the world, in the Bible
God works for seven days
And rests the seventh
It’s necessary to have a holiday
Holiday is holy day


The point is – that a holiday
– this pause between something going
On is of the essence of the idea of a web
There’s a famous Irishman who is
Supposed to have described a
Net as "a lot of holes
Tied together with string"
So the holes are very, very important
And these are the holy days
You see? The holes it all goes together

Really, deep down, we are – each one of us
– everything that there is
Doing it this way, and then again that way
And then again another way
Doing it this way, and then again that way
And then again another way
Really, deep down, we are – each one of us
– everything that there is
Doing it this way, and then again that way
And then again another way
And that’s what it keeps up doing for ever
And ever so there must be that interval
And it exists on all kinds of levels
It isn’t simply that there is for example, a
Sound that is sounded is a vibration
And the sound goes on and off
Everything that we call
Sound is sound-silence
There is no such thing as pure
Sound you couldn’t hear it
What you hear is that "tap tap tap tap tap
Tap tap tap tap tap" against the eardrum
But it happens very fast so
That you get more of
An impression of sound than you do of silence
But between every little undulation of sound
There is also an interval

When you listen to music you hear a melody
When you listen to music you hear a melody
When you listen to music you hear a melody
When you listen to music you hear a melody
When you listen to music you hear a melody
When you listen to music you hear a melody

Really, deep down, we are – each one of us
– everything that there is
Doing it this way, and then again that way
And then again another way
Doing it this way, and then again that way
And then again another way
Really, deep down, we are – each one of us
– everything that there is
Doing it this way, and then again that way
And then again another way
And that’s what it keeps up doing for ever
And ever

When you listen to music you hear a melody
When you listen to music you hear a melody
When you listen to music you hear a melody
When you listen to music you hear a melody
But what you hear, actually
That makes the melody significant
Are the steps between the tones
What we call the intervals
And a person who doesn’t
Hear intervals is tone-deaf
He only hears noises
He doesn’t hear the steps
So that interval between whatever happens is
As important as what happens
So we’ll call these two things
The sound and the silence
The life and the death
Somewhat analogous in weaving to the
Warp and the woof
Now look at the marvelous way in which
The warp and woof go together
A piece of cloth is an
Extraordinary thing when you
Consider it’s made of a line of string
There’s something that always struck me
As a child fabulous
That string – just thread –
Could turn into cloth
Why should it hang together? How improbable