Lyrics Japanese Ceremonial Tea (Interlude) - The Electric Sons

This is Japanese Ceremonial Tea; It's good on a cold day.

See our problem, is we don't really know how to stop.
We got something started and we see it's going in the wrong direction;
And I think the difficulty is, to borrow an old Chinese saying
"That when the wrong man uses the right means, the right means work in the wrong way.
Neither is there something wrong with the way we think, and while that is there everything we do will be a mess;
Now what is it that's wrong?"

Now as far as I can see,
The basic mistake is
That we've invented this wonderful system
Of language,
And calculation;
And that it is at once too simple to deal with the complexity of the world
And also that we are liable to confuse that system of simples with the world itself,
Just as we confuse save money with wealth.
Lot of people are in business to make money instead of wealth,
When they make money they don't know what to do with it.

And no wonder we feel cut off from everything,
Alienated, frightened of life and death.
So what has to happen is
We have to come back to the view of our own life, which is the way we really are,
An organism functioning in terms of the whole environment,
With the whole environment, instead of this funny little seperate personality,
But how are we going to do that?
You can't transform yourself,
You can't make yourself sing,
You can't make yourself loving,
You can't make yourself unselfish,
And yet it's absolutely necessary that we be that way.
If we are going to hand over the direction of nature to nature,
It's absolutely necessary.

I'm not going to say what we should do,
But simply that before we think of doing anything,
In this critical situation,
We realize the completely elucid in nature the beings that we think we are,
And get back again to the beings we really are,
Which includes
All this outside world,
No longer left outside.