The space between us was a lie We become one by first light Consciousness rolling back to me I coalesce into my fragile reality To open mine eyes again To know is to change EVERYTHING (The Pure Observer slips) And now I know Satori As above, so below me Everything is so clear now Satori There are things that must be known Things that must be shown And then there are things that must be (the pure observer slips again) And now released from that carnal dream I embrace the lurid ever-after Is it ever really what is seems The pain, the awe, the confessions, the laughter Do you know where this leads me? Do you know what I've done? Death will not release me From this path once begun Some things are forever Do you know where I've been? I was taunting the clever With the antithesis of your sin …and now I have fallen here I was in a dark place Left to my own accord With the musings of that quick life Fearful of the lore Now bathed in understanding It is almost unbearable To know what is to come can be terrible How can I find you again? Where are we going? Where is this place? How is there space beyond space? I believe in more than this In further possibilities I am convinced that all we know Is but a fragment of reality There are likely Many Worlds Similar to “Here” Very close yet far away Infinitely near There is so much more to comprehend We have only just begun To open our minds to the dream of it all That we are ONE Could it be that I have passed beyond Into this new reality envisaged in song? Could it be in our potential to even last this long? Without a quotient physical our energies belong To the ONE What have we begun? Does here our journey begin? Our will be done? It was an antiseptic day fraught with intention It was the mercurial way she put her faith in animated suspension “For a time.” I believed it was right at the time There was no other to blame And then she explained: “Oh yes, I see.” “Yes, I think I could believe.” But then I realized: Everything And then I think we felt the same There is always a choice There are always SEPARATE WAYS This is not the end This is where we begin: The only thing that lasts forever is Forgiveness The only thing I need is the answer, “Why me?” What should I believe, only that which I perceive? Surely there is more than I can conceive To live beyond Forgiveness is SATORI Feeling the essence Reeling in the change Seeking her presence Calling her name I know that you are here – somewhere And I feel that you are near – to nowhere Where are you? I will find you… I know that you are here And I feel that you are near Be still, I will find you wherever you have landed Fear not, for I have come Be still in your new existence for I have commanded Fear not, for It is Done Be strong in the knowledge that we are ONE In the tarnished gardens of feeble minds, they stand awakened Servile for the first time They take root in the primal fears of Man But a greater sin is abject denial that something else could possibly be As whispered in my grandfather’s Theology (which was ripe with quantum symmetry!) Fear notwithstanding, come together And just like that, I awakened from that sordid dream Nothing remained as once it all seemed a moment ago Feeling entirely alone in this blissful soliloquy Yet, I soar! Deconstruct the templates line by line The actors and portrayers both mortal and Divine I settle through the layers one at a time And converse with the players - intertwined We become one Become ONE I anticipate awareness soon to come To explain this newfound clarity; this enlightenment begun The principles of fairness do not apply At these fringes of severity; I’m desirous to comply We become one Aspiring to be more than I am But was there another? With infinite possibilities, was there another me? How can it be that I find myself alone? How can a single soul atone? If I could reach into Infinity with all those possibilities Would that infinitesimal chance that we would meet still be? Enough to pull us through the quiet realm of happenstance Enough to ensure a chance for us to be Enough to lure the gods of quantum circumstance To allow the almost impossible to be Still, I believe there is more to know In the promised Causalities I am convinced that we bestow Forced eventualities There must be familiar worlds Similar to “Here” Very close yet somehow strange Enticingly clear Surely we can comprehend And we cannot be afraid To open our minds to the “Dream of it All” That are we saved! The etiquette of ignorance is described in truth’s decay Of this, I am Witness Of this, I am Witness… Witness, am I… I am here, my love So you must be near Hold on to love, my dear I will not let go Of this, I am witness And from the things we cannot know, we grow And what is left to understand? What can consciousness bestow? Empathy and Forgiveness If consciousness contorts the quantum foam And the Pure Observer slips again Then everything is freewill Then this is our chance to begin again This is our time to Define Our Place To define an absolute Infinite diversity in infinite combinations - SPOCK Time is the only thing that heals this longing And time is the only thing I have I’ll admit I've forgotten most of it But I retain her essence I remit that love was evident Absolved by her charmed quintessence Floating through that great expanse I believed that I could find ONE In an infinite number of probable outcomes What are the chances of that? Eleven dimensions Branes in parallel Virtual Particle Annihilation Dark matter wells Singularities of gravitation Temporal swells Spinning Event Horizons Heaven or Hell What should we believe? Do we create as we perceive? Can history be retrieved? Natural invention Sates sleeping gods Full of dissention Playing the quantum odds We have gained their attention Manifesting thoughts Are our best intentions The concern of Elemental gods? Death is most ambitious Stalking us all – great and small And so the Afterlife delicious As best as we can recall For one and all Devoid of discretion Are we permitted to question? Or is it still a sin to be curious? Mutating thought to action Through quantum interactions Training our Ginn to be furious believers This is what you must believe No, now this is what you must believe No, this is now what you must believe Now I feel the toll on my soul As she reaches out to me Our struggle to maintain Just the memory of our physicality The beliefs of another hold little sway on me For can another soul be superior in need? The teachings of my brothers are little frames indeed Can another soul be inferior or lead? We must all strive alone in order to atone The harmony of oneness Leaves no one to cast the first stone We are always and never alone And should you cast that first stone, the ripples never end We are always and never alone The space between us was a lie I have become More than the sum Of unrelated instances Tumbling through time The space between us was a lie I am the Watcher conspiring to alter Things that should never be changed You are the Witness entangled to falter I am the one you can blame Soaring together – broken wings in bad weather We are conjoined in all things I can feel you Falling away “Am I alone?” Soaring away “Am I on my own?” Leading the way “Is this the way home?” Falling to pray “What have you done?” Breaching this level we rival all devils In that we can choose to maintain this state Feigning comprehension I plot a course Into the eye of the darkest storm Of course Death is most ambitious Stalking us all – great and small And so the Afterlife delicious As best as we can recall The only thing that lasts forever is Forgiveness I finally have my answer: It was always me Now if only you believed Beyond that which you perceive Beyond us is the edge of what we need To live beyond Forgiveness is Satori Become ONE in this fading light Consciousness receding from me I decompose into a fragment of eternity I close my eyes a final time And let go: SATORI And change EVERYTHING Everything is so clear now: SATORI There are things that must be known Things that must be shown And then there are things that must be Alas, the end of every story Alas, SATORI Music by Adam McLean Lyrics and Vocals by GREGORY