Lyrics If You Were God - Akira the Don, Alan Watts

If You Were God

If looking at it from another way
We push technology
To its furthest possible development
And we had instead of a dial telephone on one’s desk
A more complex
System of buttons
And one touch, beep
Would give you anything you want
Aladdin’s lamp
You would eventually have to introduce a button
Labeled «Surprise»
Surprise
Surprise
Surprise
Because all perfectly known futures as I pointed out
Are past
They have happened
Virtually
It is only the true future is a surprise
It is only the true future is a surprise
So, if you were God
You would say to yourself
Man get lost
And it’s strange
That this idea is obscurely embedded
In the Christian tradition
When in the Epistle to the Philippians
Saint Paul speaks
Of
God the Son
The logos
The Word of God
Who was incarnate in Christ
And says:
Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus
Who being in the form of God
Thought not equality with God a thing to be clung to
But made himself of no reputation
And humbled himself
And was found in fashion as a man
And became obedient to death
Same idea
Same idea as the idea of the dream
That very far out dream
Same idea as the idea of the dream
That very far out dream
Same idea as the idea of the dream
That very far out dream
Same idea as the idea of the dream
Getting as extreme
As you can get
As you can get
As you can get
And so, this then is the basis
Of the Hindu view
Of the universe and of Man
The Hindu looks upon the universe as a drama
The Westerner of course, looks upon the universe as a construct
As something made
And it is not therefore insignificant that Jesus was the son of the carpenter