Do you ever look around
turn your ear to the ground
show your face to the sky
on a night when the skies echo sounds
from inside of your mind
on the stage that you shone
where the sun did become you
and move with your thoughts
through the sighs and the scenes
of the worlds you have seen
and the sights that have been
your reflection in shadows and dreams?
- your reflection in shadows and dreams
Did you ever see a man
who did walk down the street
white robe with no shoes on his feet
and on top of his head place a box with two slits
and the sign from his neck said ‘I do not exist’
or a woman who could not remember her name
did stutter and stutter
again and again
and saw you and called you her son; her eyes said
‘my being is gone, but still I’m not dead’?
Miserere
Have you ever seen a sound
have you listened to an image
have you ever touched a thought
have you ever tasted nothing
have you ever told a lie that was true more than truth
because truth it had lied all its life when it spoke to you?
And what did it say?
It is that? It is this?
This goes here, here is there
it is not, yes it is
it was dulling your senses your eyes they were bound
have you ever my friends been looking around?
And the other replies with a wave of a hand
I am already here in this promised land
but not by a god and not by a king
and not by a spirit deep from within
I am here
because a miracle’s a whim
it’s a flash of glory, it’s an empty tin
and maybe might lets you in
not to save you, but to keep on looking-
Miserere…
Have you ever been so happy that you’re sad?
that the lights turn to stars
and the stars become eyes
and hello’s are goodbye’s
and the laughs are the sigh’s
and the show disappears with the note
‘until next time’
Long live living if living can be this (x4)
Do you ever look around
and find what is yet to be found?
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Have you ever looked around,
At the micro surrounds
At the small little things that do make all things work yet resound, in your mind to be fake
But you need to believe them to pass all the courses you
take
And the lecturer seems
to believe all the reams
Of equations he deems
As required for the stream
But you don't understand what he means
You just don't understand what he means
Have you ever seen a cat
With a poison syringe
Triggered by a nuclear hinge
And all around it place a box without slits
And a sign on the end saying I may not exist
Or a gluon who could not remember its place
As it's measured and measured again and again
It's getting confused until Heisenberg says
Position is gone, but momentum's not dead
Chorus
Have you ever heard of Bohr
Have you seen an anti-colour
Have you ever tunnelled through
Have you touched a quantum number
Have you ever seen the light that did split into bits
And the bits were particles that waved to you in the mist
And what did they say?
"I'll hit that" "No you'll miss"
"But I'm here" "Here is there"
"No it's not" "Yes it is"
Have you ever seen light interfere like a sound
Have you ever, my friends, been looking around
And another replies with a wave of a quark
I am already here in this quantum park
But not by a scroll, and not by a plaque
And not by a matlab script in the dark
I am here,
Coz a wavicle's a whim
It's a metaphor for those quantum things
And maybe, Planck let's you in!
But then maybe, you first have to do Honours
Chorus
Have you ever, illuminated steel
And the light turns to charge
And the charge becomes volts
And the volts do build up
'Till the field is too much
And the charge doesn't move it just stops,
Until it is flushed
Long live Physics, if Physics might be this (x4)
Have you ever looked around,
and found what should never be found
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