Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Pyre, artist - NOTHING MORE. Album song Nothing More, in the genre Иностранный рок
Date of issue: 22.06.2014
Record label: Eleven Seven
Song language: English
Pyre |
When you opened your eyes on the world for the first time as a child; |
how brilliant the colors were; |
what a jewel the sun was; |
what marvel the stars; |
how incredibly alive the trees were… And to love again and again, |
and have people to whom we are deeply attached go to sleep and never wake up… |
and the laughter echoes only in one’s mind… but then the echo goes… |
the memory, the traces are all gone |
All your efforts, all your acheivements, all your attainments turning into dust, |
nothingness… what is the feeling? |
what happens to you? |
The idea of God as the potter, the architect of the universe, it makes you feel |
that life is, after all, important, that there is someone who cares. |
It has meaning, it has sense, and you are valuable in the eyes of the father. |
But after a while it got embarrassing, the superstition, the myth, |
the absolutely unfounded idea… why does anybody believe that? |
So you become an atheist, and then you feel terrible after that because you got |
rid of God… but that means you got rid of yourself, you’re just nothing but a |
machine… And your idea that you’re a machine is just a machine too… |
(a machine in the system)… |
So if you think that that’s the way things are, you feel hostile to the world. |
You feel that the world is a neurological trap into which you somehow got |
caught… trapped… You run from the maternity ward to the crematorium and |
that’s it… that’s it… So if you’re a smart kid you commit suicide |
Now I want to propose another idea all together… The real you, |
is not a puppet which life pushes around. |
The real you, the real deep down you, |
is the whole universe. |
You cannot confine yourself to what happens inside the |
skin. |
Your skin doesn’t separate you from the world, it’s a bridge. |
But just as a magnet polarizes its-self in north and south but its all one |
magnet, so experience polarizes itself as «Self» and «Other», but it’s all one |
What you call the «External world» is as much YOU as your own body. |
Most people think that when they open they’re eyes and look around that what |
they are seeing is outside… it seems, doesn’t it, that you are behind your |
eyes. |
We haven’t realized that life and death, black and white, good and evil, |
being and non-being, come from the same center |
When you look for your own particularized center of being which is separate |
from everything else, you won’t be able to find it. |
The only way you’ll know it |
isn’t there is if you look hard enough, to find out that it isn’t there. |
It isn’t there at all, there isn’t a separate you. |
There are, in physical |
reality, no such things as separate events |
People can’t be talked out of illusions. |
If a person believes that the earth is |
flat, you can’t talk him out of that, he knows that it’s flat. |
He’ll go down to |
the window and see that its obvious, it looks flat. |
So the only way to convince |
him that it isn’t is to say, «Well let’s go and find the edge» |