Pyre Lyrics - Nothing More

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 and all your achievements 

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" 

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