Akira The Don, Alan Watts - Your Idea of Heaven lyrics
[Akira The Don, Alan Watts - Your Idea of Heaven lyrics]
What do people do most of the time?
And what would they like to do really?
What's your idea of heaven?
What's your idea of heaven?
What do people do most of the time?
And what would they like to do really?
What's your idea of heaven?
What's your idea of heaven?
When people are unoccupied
As far as I can make out
They get together and the sing and dance
Or else watch somebody else do it
Nowadays we live in a
Non participative culture
And we don't do very much singing and dancing
We are lugubrious
But we watch other people do it on television
What we really are interested in is to be
Able to spend all the time going
"gohooda bada doo boom-di-di boo
Ba gohooda bada doo
Boom-di-di boo ba bee boo doodie
Boodie doo doo tchi-ko"
You know something like this
And that's what our heart's doing
That's what our lungs are doing
That's what our eyeballs are doing
And it's what all these fantastic capillaries
Of the veins are doing, they're going
"joo-di boo-di, huppa-bubba, umpa-buba jee
Dee dee dee, "
And that's the point
You know? Dare we admit it?
What do people do most of the time?
And what would they like to do really?
What's your idea of heaven?
What's your idea of heaven?
What do people do most of the time?
And what would they like to do really?
What's your idea of heaven?
What's your idea of heaven?
Because we've been brought up you see
In a cultural context
In which the universe is presided
Over by somebody serious it's only very
Very occasional obscure references in the
Jewish and Christian scriptures
To the idea that God dances
Of course in Hindus they know Shiva dances
And all the Gods dance
They're represented in the dance
But in our way of looking at things no
Back, that deep down in there is
Something that you must respect
You mustn’t laugh in church
Especially if you got in front
Of the throne of heaven
Everybody would be dead silent
Wow! You see, I mean that's really serious
Here is the father Almighty
World without end and you watch out!
Don't you laugh why not?
Because father Almighty, world without end
Is a very insecure fellow
Anybody laughed he might feel uneasy
You know? Like something wrong going on
Someone challenged his power
What do people do most of the time?
And what would they like to do really?
What's your idea of heaven?
What's your idea of heaven?
What do people do most of the time?
And what would they like to do really?
What's your idea of heaven?
What's your idea of heaven?
So he is a funny fellow, you see?
As we've mythologized
Ultimate reality in the form of
This cosmic grand papa who is also a king
And is demanding above all
Things reverence and respect
And what would they like to do really?
What's your idea of heaven?
What's your idea of heaven?
What do people do most of the time?
And what would they like to do really?
What's your idea of heaven?
What's your idea of heaven?
When people are unoccupied
As far as I can make out
They get together and the sing and dance
Or else watch somebody else do it
Nowadays we live in a
Non participative culture
And we don't do very much singing and dancing
We are lugubrious
But we watch other people do it on television
What we really are interested in is to be
Able to spend all the time going
"gohooda bada doo boom-di-di boo
Ba gohooda bada doo
Boom-di-di boo ba bee boo doodie
Boodie doo doo tchi-ko"
You know something like this
And that's what our heart's doing
That's what our lungs are doing
That's what our eyeballs are doing
And it's what all these fantastic capillaries
Of the veins are doing, they're going
"joo-di boo-di, huppa-bubba, umpa-buba jee
Dee dee dee, "
And that's the point
You know? Dare we admit it?
What do people do most of the time?
And what would they like to do really?
What's your idea of heaven?
What's your idea of heaven?
What do people do most of the time?
And what would they like to do really?
What's your idea of heaven?
What's your idea of heaven?
Because we've been brought up you see
In a cultural context
In which the universe is presided
Over by somebody serious it's only very
Very occasional obscure references in the
Jewish and Christian scriptures
To the idea that God dances
Of course in Hindus they know Shiva dances
And all the Gods dance
They're represented in the dance
But in our way of looking at things no
Back, that deep down in there is
Something that you must respect
You mustn’t laugh in church
Especially if you got in front
Of the throne of heaven
Everybody would be dead silent
Wow! You see, I mean that's really serious
Here is the father Almighty
World without end and you watch out!
Don't you laugh why not?
Because father Almighty, world without end
Is a very insecure fellow
Anybody laughed he might feel uneasy
You know? Like something wrong going on
Someone challenged his power
What do people do most of the time?
And what would they like to do really?
What's your idea of heaven?
What's your idea of heaven?
What do people do most of the time?
And what would they like to do really?
What's your idea of heaven?
What's your idea of heaven?
So he is a funny fellow, you see?
As we've mythologized
Ultimate reality in the form of
This cosmic grand papa who is also a king
And is demanding above all
Things reverence and respect