-- We're Wrong to Trust --


I want to share with you something I've learned
We're wrong to trust

We're wrong to trust
in this mound of dust we call the Earth
we're wrong to ground in a lust that gives birth to
every
one
of our most fabulous dreams...

We're wrong to trust
a world of hopes and barbarous oaths

Words as shadows

Symbols not containing the vast
universe of stars and celestial bodies
our souls have all this time
been communicating

We're wrong to do anything
that does not directly suit our needs
we should buy and consume
use up and tap out as we please
We're wrong to trust

We're wrong to see how I am like you
and you are like me
holding dreams up for size
only to realize
that a great fit,
well it just doesn't matter
It's easier to scatter
and leave "good enough" behind

hey, outta sight, outta mind

We're wrong to seek out the Sacred
because when I see you and you see me
that's the only way I want to be
I don't like it here

And yet here is where we are
because in this life I've learned
you can't stretch that far
IT IS A REQUIREMENT
that you get 'one for yourself'
of everything you think you'll ever need,
because we all have to do this seperately!

Didn't you know??
Didn't you get that memo?
Didn't you know that we're not ready??
It hurts too much

We can't acknowledge what's going on
cuz then we'll really know
just what we've lost, and what we've done
And I don't think we're strong enough
to know who we really are.

not you, not him
definitely not her
None of us
know who we really are

So I need to stop this foolish fantasy
that I need you so you must need me -
that all this fun and stuff that I can do
with other Magic Fools
has anything to do with global peace

or trees falling to the Machine
or children's voices raised in screams
or the exploitated masturbated and then sedated
to sit behind their plastic screens

We are wrong to trust
In this Culture of Make-Believe
where we have forgotton our Language Older Than Words

We can't change anything
We thought we could, but maybe we were wrong

Because the "Elightened Ones" will betray you
because sacred space will show you where you cannot live
and where you cannot make your home
Because you will leave,
and because you will be left behind
because it's ALWAYS harder than anything you ever had in mind
Because the life raft that pulls your soul awake
is itself leaking
Because you will let yourself down
because they will ALL let you down

This is my strategy...
I'll try to forget that I ever wanted more
I'll play along, sing the song...
I'm gonna learn how others do it
ignore the grenades that roll across the floor
into a room full of closed minds
and big behinds
"Hey! you get yours and I'll get mine!"
I'll learn to forget our commonality
we'll betray each other, anyway...
eventually

It's in our blood
Entropy

Hey don't hold me to it!
I never said that I would do it
I only have so much time,
I gotta do what I gotta do, dammit!

See - We're wrong to trust
I mean just look at us
Why this endless sum of zeroes??
Our heros are those who chose to have cultures slaughtered
taught us our language of self-desctruction
to justify rape

Why, with all that we have, can't we do it?
Why are we still looking for what happiness "means"?
What about how it feels??
The answer to that question, the man said,
lies in another question:
And that is which is the most universal human characteristic?
Fear?
or laziness?

Sometimes its just that I'm tired
tired of trusting
that there must be a lusting in someone other than me
to see That Place before we die
with our OWN eyes
To leave it to the seventh generation

I'm tired of hoping
that there won't be more flowing into this spring I drink from
It seems like none of us have it together

I'll share with you something I've learned
We're wrong to trust in this mound of dust we call the Earth
we're wrong to ground in a lust that gives birth to
every
one
of our most Fabulous Dreams...

We're wrong to try

Don't hug them close
Don't dream and sigh
Don't make believe you'll never die
Don't meet the land on moonlit walks
Don't shapeshift,
don't challenge, don't change
You are NOT allowed to be naked

Just talk the talk
Whatever your talk is...
it's still talk

Don't open yourself
We don't even have a word yet
for old friends who've just met
Don't collaborate, don't commit
don't fight
I learned you'll only lose with all your might

Don't search for that path paved with pebbles
you've only dreamed of

and whatever you do...

WHATEVER you do

don't ever love.