Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Ascetic, artist - The Residents.
Date of issue: 27.03.1994
Song language: English
The Ascetic |
Every day I go up on the mountain |
Climb to the top, but I don’t know what for |
It’s quiet until I hear a voice up on the mountain |
It says «beware of what you want, it might want you more!» |
«Ashes, my burned hut |
But beautiful, like cherry |
Blooming on the hill» |
-One of my patients, just before he died, and just before I left the hospital |
and began to travel |
If he could face death so calmly, how could I face life with so much doubt? |
Now, I can sit on the side of a mountain and watch the shadows slowly filling |
the valley floor, but not without the doubts that still linger and constantly |
caress the edges of my shadowy interior |
At least a catheter expels impurities in a manner of model efficiency, |
and my previous profession always at least offered that. |
Flawless vasectomies |
in clean and well lit places, a sterile field sealed from infection, |
but not from disease… |
I often wonder if I left anyone behind, but somehow I just can’t remember. |
Only an oddly defined drive to find a better way. |
But somehow, I don’t believe |
this is it. |
As I watch the shadows slowly creeping closer, I think about India |
and the Hindu concept of Maya |
It took me so long to understand the space between reality and perception, |
and now it seems that I live there |