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Lyrics for Four Pails by Hammill Peter:
| | | Artist: | Hammill Peter |
| | Album: | Skin | | Track: | Four Pails | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 188 | | | | Lyrics: | Four pails of water and a bagfull of salts.
That is all we are, that is all a man
comprises,
chemicals alone, with no spirit, soul or ghost -
nothing so bizarre.
No
amount of faith disguises
what is true is what we fear the most
Nothing can
survive
save the things men leave behind them.
Any other case would be really too absurd
-
if thoughts remained alive
surely modern science would find them?
No, the soul is
nothing but a word.
All the wonders Man achieves
emerge from cerebral
tissue.
Chemical reactions' ebb and surge
form that Thing that is you....
It's a sad
philosophy,
but better sad than wrong.
Face the truth instead:
when you're dead
you're dead,
when you're gone you're gone...
now she's gone.
Four pails of
water and a bagfull of salts.
That is all she was, all my lover represented -
that
sounds just as mad as saying she will never die.
Fools may clutch at straws
but truth must
not be circumvented:
as the tree falls, so must that tree lie!
Now that sounds so
odd...
once I would have preached it brightly.
Now questions appear I rationally can't
ignore...
Nothingness or God,
Which of them seems more unlikely?
Once I would
have answered clearly,
now I only think I'm nearly sure.
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