I'm sure you've heard the phrase Once you're born, you start dying But I'd like to clear the haze
Are you born at conception Or when your head peeks out the womb? Were you alive, in halves Before egg met *****? If this is true You existed before these cells were made And if my words are correct You were once a tiny speck Of dust on the floor Or perhaps on the shore Of an ocean, ever swaying But maybe your speck Was once part of the ocean And part of that ocean Was once in space Once a flash of energy Before matter was made And the universe's foundation was laid In stone Or rather In foam So easy to spray But so easily disappearing Into thin air That was once nothing
But if we existed before we thought Because we used to have no thought Then it'd only be plausible That we will exist after we lose thought But maybe in two Maybe we can think for eternity on end Or maybe I'm a fool We can only find out If we take the dive into the pool Of life's slow compromise
But the sad truth is clear You and me, dear We are something Something, that came out of nothing But nothing, dear, must have a big belly If it were to shell out something that's this heavy But if all we knew That we're truly nothing We'd be quite sad But really, we already are So let's hold hands And look to the sea I'll look at you And you, at me We can think ourselves away Until we find reason to be gay But we'll have nothing left to say For our only legacy is what's up there Upstairs Hidden in our squishy brains Where you and me Can think of eachother And wonder Why is it us That think of this stuff Maybe it's just better That the rest of the world has other thoughts on their mind And they don't mind the bigger stuff They feel content, just leaving it To Us