| I once met a man who trained himself not to dream
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| What he seems to have seen was a glimpse of everything
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| He’s been painting pictures on canvas since age thirteen
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| And claims he only exists in the mind of a higher being
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| And I enjoy his work; |
| mostly scenic landscapes
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| But each one is focused on an easel where the man paints himself painting
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| himself
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| And all that’s in his visual field
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| He said this was the only way he could make himself real
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| Ever since he could remember, he had one nightmare reoccur
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| But until about ten years ago, it didn’t matter
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| It consisted of loud, distorted sounds echoing off the concrete
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| He ran on top of it in attempt to reach a ladder
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| Now sometimes, he’d get so close but never touch his destination
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| Which caused him much frustration 'cause he didn’t know what it meant
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| And by the end of the dream, he saw the scene from a bird’s eye
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| Only to witness his dead body laying on the cement
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| It was only to witness his dead body laying on the cement
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| At first it freaked him out, but after a while he grew content
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| So he thought, «It's just a dream,"and kept living his life
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| Writing his soul on the canvas 'cause it sheds his planet light
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| And it goes on and on like space and time, ain’t nothing odd
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| It’s not that he didn’t believe, he just didn’t approve of God
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| His experience was one I couldn’t comprehend
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| 'Till I stopped being detective and listened to him as a friend
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| He said
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| He once saw a painting that told his whole life story
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| It was then that he knew he was the art of divinity
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| He once saw a painting that told his whole life story
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| A brush stroke of the gods made him one note in their symphony
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| He once saw a painting that told his whole life story
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| He spoke for himself and not the rest of humanity
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| He once saw a painting that told his whole life story
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| And I realize that I’m not real
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| God just imagined me It’s like I said
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| About ten years ago, the event that changed his whole reality
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| Took place on his monthly trip to the local art gallery
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| It was there where he studied his contemporaries
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| And there where he nearly carried his sanity to a hole and buried it forever
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| It was a very mysterious day
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| The place was almost empty
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| And he got chills down his spine just being present in the scene
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| On the wall, there was a picture that looked familiar
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| And when he got close, his heart stopped
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| Cause he saw it was a painting of his dream
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| It was a painting of his dream
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| His body on a runway
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| By a ladder to an airplane with its propellers spinning
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| Which accounted for the loud noise
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| The match up was perfect
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| And that was the day he stopped believing in existing
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| He resented his creator
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| I mean, words can’t explain
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| What must have went on in his brain while he stared into a frame
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| Of a work of art which he created and was at the same time
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| The mind can’t handle that much, it’s just insane
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| It’s like reading a book where each words describe your thoughts
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| And in «ations, it reads whatever you say when you talk
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| You think it can’t happen
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| But it did happen
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| I guess there’s surprisingly wide cracks in each life’s sidewalk
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| He stumbled upon an answer when he never had a question
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| And decided to stop dreaming to maintain his mental health
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| Now he hardly talks to people
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| Just stays in his basement
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| Writing infinity, by painting himself
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| Painting himself
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| This is a strange universe
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| Is it all just a blueprint?
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| In the real universe, is my consciousness useless?
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| Are we really something a higher intelligence made up?
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| A figment of imagination colored by a cosmic paintbrush?
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| Maybe all of our art creates the fate of other beings
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| Then every character in ever novel thinks it’s alive and were just gods
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| Ruling blindly
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| Just a theory
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| I don’t know what it means
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| But that’s the story of the man who trained himself not to dream
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| He once saw a paining that told his whole life story
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| He witnessed the paradox of the word «existing»
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| He once saw a painting that told his whole life story
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| He colored his world theirs, and concluded he wasn’t living
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| He once saw a painting that told his whole life story
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| The hidden variable that all that is is art
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| And when I close my eyes, I see eternity as a story
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| A God imagined the God that imagined me And I am God
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| And so on |