Akira The Don, Alan Watts - Watch What Is Really Going On lyrics

You can't you know
You can’t eat 10 roasts of beef in one day
Can't live in six houses at once
Can't drive three Rolls Royces
At the same time what are you to do?

Watch what is going on watch what happens
Nobody ever does this, you know
Nobody ever does this, you know
Watch what is going on watch what happens
Nobody ever does this, you know
Nobody ever does this, you know

Well, you just go make more money
Put your money back
Invest in something else, it'll make more
You don't give a damn how it's made
So long as they make it
You don't care if they foul the rivers
Put oil fumes throughout the air everywhere
Kill off all the fish so what?


So long as you see these figures happening
You're not aware of anything else
So you see
You went out to do a self-improvement thing
Making money, you see, is
A measure of improvement
A measure of your economic worthwhileness
Or at least, that's what it's supposed to be
It isn't anything of the kind
But you went out, in other
Words, for the status
Instead of for the actuality

Watch what is going on watch what happens
Nobody ever does this, you know
Nobody ever does this, you know
Watch what is going on watch what happens
Nobody ever does this, you know
Nobody ever does this, you know

You do art, you're a musician
Why do you play music?
The only reason for playing music is to enjoy
If you play music to impress an audience
Read about yourself in the newspaper
You're not interested in music
So in the same way
Why do I come and talk to you?
'Cause I enjoy it
I like the sound of my own voice
I'm interested in what I'm talking about
And I get paid for it
Now, that's smart in this life
You get paid for what you enjoy
So here's the situation, you see
The whole idea of self-improvement is
A will-o'-the-wisp and a hoax
That's not what it's about
Let's begin where we are
What happens if you know
If you know beyond any shadow
Of doubt that there
Is nothing you can do to be better?
Well, it's kind of a relief, isn't it?
You say, "Well, now what will I do?"
Because we are so used
To making things better
Leave the world a better place than
When you found it sorta thing
I want to be of service to other people
And all these dreadfully hazy ideas
But supposing instead of that
Seeing that there isn't really anything we
Can do to improve ourselves or
To improve the world, if we realize that that
Is so, it gives us a breather
In the course of which we may simply

Watch what is going on watch what happens
Nobody ever does this, you know
Nobody ever does this, you know
Watch what is going on watch what happens
Nobody ever does this, you know
Nobody ever does this, you know

Therefore, it sounds terribly simple
It sounds so simple that it almost looks
As if it isn't worth doing
But have you ever just watched?
Watch what's happening and watch what you are
Doing by way of reaction to it
Just watch it happen, and don't be in a hurry
To think you know what it is
In other words, people look
So that's the external world
Oh? How do you know? The whole thing, from a
Neurological point of view
There's a happening in your head
That you think there is
Something outside the skull
Is a notion in your nervous system
That may or may not be
But it's a notion in your nervous system
You think this is the material world
Well, that's somebody's philosophical idea
You think it's spiritual
That too is somebody's philosophical idea
This real world is not spiritual
It is not material the real world is simply
So could we look at things in that way
Without fixing labels and names and
Gradations and judgments on everything?
But watch what happens watch what we do
But watch what happens watch what we do