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Pink Floyd - High Hopes

 

Friends and enemies, the point has come

Now no more mincing words

What the fuck is going on?

Don't we realize it or are we just hiding it?

We are mad, our madness is great

It's in our flesh, how do we get rid of it?

Maybe it's just my own view

Maybe I'm wrong and don't understand it all

But there are shows on TV that explain it's all about looks

While at school kids go on a killing spree

It drives me crazy

I can't watch this shit no more

More light, I can't see

I'm half blind and I can barely stand

It's so loud, I can't hear a thing

Everybody's talking through each other so they don't get lost

 

My childhood was beautiful, I played and laughed.

But when I was 8, I thought for the first time:

When I stand before God one day

I'll break his nose bone and ask him how it can be

That all his children here are deaf, dumb and blind

Tearing themselves apart in fear, their souls out of tune

You FREAK, what did you create?

You structure us humans as if we were your weapons

Built to destroy ourselves and everything else

We beg you for mercy, but you won't hear it

We scream because we feel that we are fearful and bad

Thunder, the balance of nature, are like the plague

YEAH! HOW CAN IT BE?

Someday I'll enter your heavenly kingdom

I'll grab you and drag you down to us!

Live this shit yourself, drown in it!

 

But today I am no longer 8 and I see life differently

God is ourselves, consciousness that wanders

From form to form, to grow and become

And the fear of every form is the so-called dying

But dying is becoming and suffering is learning

And the shards we inherit are ourselves, from far away

To give us what we have given

In words and thoughts and feelings and deeds

And become we will, until the world implodes

And all that is is born again from the beginning

For in us rests the infinite now

It penetrates and gives birth and decomposes

And unites and distributes and networks in such a complex way

That it shreds our imagination

Nature is nothing more than consciousness that grows

It is we who become, in the infinite now

 

Robert Gwisdek

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Uploaded on January 26, 2021