Another one of my favorite artists David Bowie and his song about transcending, Changes:
Oh, yeah Mmm Still don't know what I was waitin' for And my time was runnin' wild A million dead end streets and Every time I thought I'd got it made It seemed the taste was not so sweet So I turned myself to face me But I've never caught a glimpse of How the others must see the faker I'm much too fast to take that test Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Turn and face the strange Ch-ch-changes Don't want to be a richer man Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Turn and face the strange Ch-ch-changes Just gonna have to be a different man Time may change me But I can't trace time Mmm, yeah I watch the ripples change their size But never leave the stream Of warm impermanence So the days float through my eyes But still the days seem the same And these children that you spit on As they try to change their worlds Are immune to your consultations They're quite aware of what they're goin' through Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Turn and face the strange Ch-ch-changes Don't tell them to grow up and out of it Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Turn and face the strange Ch-ch-changes Where's your shame? You've left us up to our necks in it Time may change me But you can't trace time Strange fascination, fascinatin' Ah, changes are takin' The pace I'm goin' through Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Turn and face the strange Ch-ch-changes Oh, look out you rock 'n' rollers Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Turn and face the strange Ch-ch-changes Pretty soon now you're gonna get older Time may change me But I can't trace time I said that time may change me But I can't trace time --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > Ahem. The BBC's contention just might have something to > > do with the fact that the words to this song were lifted > > verbatim from "The Psychedelic Experience," by Leary, > > Metzger, and Alpert. :-) > > Well, the first line is, more or less. The original reads: > > "Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, float downstream." > > The rest of the words are Lennon's. > > http://www.erowid.org/library/books_online/psychedelic_experience/psychedelic_experience.shtml > > http://tinyurl.com/2fapf > > > > > That book was a loose reworking of the Tibetan Book of > > the Dead, and was pretty much the User's Manual for LSD. > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, blusc0ut <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > Beautiful! This is also one of my favorate songs. I think it > > < was even forbidden at a time and not played by the BBC out > > > of the accusation that it was glorifying LSD > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5d4wWGK4Ig > > > which is of course rubbish, as the Beatles explained. John > > > lennon wanted his voice obviously to sound like the Dalai > > > Lama from a hilltop. > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" <whynotnow7@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > or put another way ;-) : > > > > > > > > > > Turn off your mind, relax > > > > > and float down stream > > > > > It is not dying > > > > > It is not dying > > > > > > > > > > Lay down all thought > > > > > Surrender to the void > > > > > It is shining > > > > > It is shining > > > > > > > > > > That you may see > > > > > The meaning of within > > > > > It is being > > > > > It is being > > > > > > > > > > That love is all > > > > > And love is everyone > > > > > It is knowing > > > > > It is knowing > > > > > > > > > > That ignorance and hate > > > > > May mourn the dead > > > > > It is believing > > > > > It is believing > > > > > > > > > > But listen to the > > > > > color of your dreams > > > > > It is not living > > > > > It is not living > > > > > > > > > > Or play the game of > > > > > existence to the end > > > > > Of the beginning > > > > > Of the beginning > > > > > Of the beginning > > > > > Of the beginning > > > > > Of the beginning > > > > > Of the beginning > > >
