What forms us informs us we’re out of focus,
What forms us informs us we’re off balance,
Adapting, changing, carbon based form;
Fall out of Eden, behold, frontal lobe!
What forms us informs us nothing’s what it seems,
Dressed in daylight, talking like a dream,
Perhaps everything is just as it seems,
Whatever it means that keeps bringing us here!
What forms us informs us in symbols, naturally;
Collective subconscious live stream,
Charging soul images with electric emotion,
The Godhead breathes stills into motion!
What haunts us informs us you’ve been split,
Once your madness lost its wit,
What looked like you, felt like someone else,
Not quite alive nor exactly dead;
Living as it were in a silent movie,
Lips always moving soundlessly;
How can it feel so unreal, just walking
In a dream from which you can’t awaken?!
What forms us informs us, oh walkabout!
Face of wilderness, get lost to be found!
What forms us transforms us, oh holy sound!
How strange it is for us to be here now,
Going round n round!
credits
from Planet Paradise,
released March 21, 2019
Words: A. El-Motassem
Music: A. El-Motassem/ E. Gallagher
Evan Gallagher: Keyboard/ bass
Ahmed El-Motassem: Vocals, percussion, midi guitar
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