That’s when she told me “I was holy elixir”
She said “I thought I knew the world but it was only a picture”
She said “We’re all written in the holiest scripture
It’s just we’re living in this time that says no inhibitions
Get yours, keep going, the distance, no limits
And don’t bother protesting because nobody listens
Besides
All your solutions dissolve under scrutiny
And you can’t stand a note of derision
Instead, seek approval to justify your existence
Have opinions but have no resolve or conviction
Just keep your head down
Breathe the fumes and indulge your addictions
Routine is healthy
Ignore the affliction
The cost to the soul
And the constant constriction
Don’t consider too closely
Have no intermission
Keep throwing your fists in slow repetition
Most of us manage
What makes you so different?
What makes you so different?
What makes you so?

Now, you seem a bright spark
Take the road with the pilgrims
Head for the temples of democracy
Freedom, growth, reason, liberty, hope
But don’t pay attention to what’s hanging from the rope
Decode the language
Unfold the symbols
I’m told disciples got lost in the hillside
Following intellect, they let go of wisdom
And now they’ll tell you the soul’s a closed system
They sacrificed instinct to phony ambition
And now what they hold in their fist has become all that there is
But total existence needs meaning and myth
Many misjudged the way and got lost in the mist
She said “Your loneliness is the symptom, not the sickness”

And the moment her lips said “Peace”
My peace melted
I became a memory
I felt myself peel
I was atoms
I was magnesium
I was calcium
I was real
She said “We are born of collision
We are divisions of a bigger vision
And yet we run around like hamsters
Spinning the wheel
Spinning the wheel
Spinning the wheel
Spinning the wheel
Spinning the wheel
Spinning the wheel
Spinning the wheel
Spinning the wheel”