STRFKR - Medicine lyrics
[STRFKR - Medicine lyrics]
Don't you see we have something here?
Which I will call not philosophy
Except in the most ancient sense
Of basic curiosity
Never remember your birthday
Or anything you like
Sorry so helpless so help you
Anyway you like
Take your medicine
The following of them does not depend on
Believing in anything, in obeying anything
Or on doing any specific rituals
(although rituals are included for
Certain purposes because it
Is a purely experimental approach to life)
Never remember your birthday
Or anything you like
Sorry so helpless so help you
Anyway you like
Take your medicine
This is something like a person who
Has defective eyesight and is seeing
Spots and all sorts of illusions
And goes to an ophthalmologist
To correct his vision
Buddhism is, therefore
A corrective of psychic vision
It is to be dis-enthralled by
The game of Maya it is not, incidentally
To regard the Maya as something evil
But to regard it as a good thing
Of which one can have too much
And therefore one gets
Psychic and spiritual indigestion-from which
We all suffer
When I was a small boy I used
To haunt that section of London
Around the British Museum
And one day I came across a shop
That had a notice over the
Window which said:
"Philosophical Instruments"
Now even as a boy I
Knew something about philosophy
But, I could not imagine what
Philosophical instruments might be
So I went up to the
Window and there displayed
Were chronometers, slide rules, scales
And all kinds of what we
Would now call scientific instruments
Because science used to be
Called natural philosophy
Because, as Aristotle says
The beginning of philosophy is wonder
Philosophy is man's expression of
Curiosity about everything
His attempt to make sense of the world
Primarily through his intellect
That is to say "Hi!"s faculty for thinking
Which I will call not philosophy
Except in the most ancient sense
Of basic curiosity
Never remember your birthday
Or anything you like
Sorry so helpless so help you
Anyway you like
Take your medicine
The following of them does not depend on
Believing in anything, in obeying anything
Or on doing any specific rituals
(although rituals are included for
Certain purposes because it
Is a purely experimental approach to life)
Never remember your birthday
Or anything you like
Sorry so helpless so help you
Anyway you like
Take your medicine
This is something like a person who
Has defective eyesight and is seeing
Spots and all sorts of illusions
And goes to an ophthalmologist
To correct his vision
Buddhism is, therefore
A corrective of psychic vision
It is to be dis-enthralled by
The game of Maya it is not, incidentally
To regard the Maya as something evil
But to regard it as a good thing
Of which one can have too much
And therefore one gets
Psychic and spiritual indigestion-from which
We all suffer
When I was a small boy I used
To haunt that section of London
Around the British Museum
And one day I came across a shop
That had a notice over the
Window which said:
"Philosophical Instruments"
Now even as a boy I
Knew something about philosophy
But, I could not imagine what
Philosophical instruments might be
So I went up to the
Window and there displayed
Were chronometers, slide rules, scales
And all kinds of what we
Would now call scientific instruments
Because science used to be
Called natural philosophy
Because, as Aristotle says
The beginning of philosophy is wonder
Philosophy is man's expression of
Curiosity about everything
His attempt to make sense of the world
Primarily through his intellect
That is to say "Hi!"s faculty for thinking