Akira The Don, Alan Watts - Warp And Woof lyrics

My mother was a very great artist
In embroidery did absolutely fabulous work
And she could do everything with
Thread:  sewing, knitting
Embroidery, make tapestries
Repair tapestries oh, just fabulous work
So I’ve grown up in
A background where thread is of
Enormous importance
She made a living this way, for a while
So I was always amazed at the way you take
A ball of wool, and with knitting needles
And suddenly it turns into a sweater
Fantastic!
But I found out, you see, the secret of this
Which is that it will do this – it
Will hold together – by this combination of

Warp and woof warp and woof
This process where one thread goes under
The other, omit's the next
Goes under the other warp and woof
Warp and woof
And then the next thing does the same thing
But in the opposite way connect that

And they hold each other up
For example, you can put two sticks of
Wood, and lean them against each other
And they’ll stand up
We know the Chinese character for man
(人) looks more or less like that
And although this is simply the
Brush form, the brush abbreviation
Of what were originally the legs of
A little human stick figure
There’s a story that Japanese
Children sometimes learn
From their mothers: that the reason this
Is the character for man is that two
Sticks, leaned together as I described
Will keep each other up
And the one depends on the other it’s mutual
And so in the same way
The existence of human beings depends
On our supporting each other
Without that, no one of us can exist

Warp and woof warp and woof
This process where one thread goes under
The other, omit's the next
Goes under the other warp and woof
Warp and woof
And then the next thing does the same thing
But in the opposite way connect that

But that, which may seem a little
Trite – a little, sort of
Moralistic and so on
But it is absolutely fundamental
That anything that there is
Whenever we can say that something exists
Existence is a function of relationship