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When I was young, I read a lot
about more ancient times
I read about the heroes
and criminals and crimes
I read the myths and legends,
and all the fairy tales
about the princess in the tower
back when knighthood was in flower
and before it went to seed
before the real was made unreal
by usury and greed
Before the colors of the world
got changed to white and black
Those were better times... they were
I wish I had them back
They were better times... indeed
I wish we had them back
The whole of life’s an allegory
ideas become humanized
and play a role that demonstrates
what every idea means
and you get a moral or a meaning
deeper than it seems
She was not a princess
locked up in a tower
It was all a metaphor
of Kundalini power
She’s the serpent in the spine
The tower is my ignorance,
and I am really every man
I am not a prince
and something else I have to say
That handsome prince was probably gay
The black knight was the carnal nature
In a game of nomenclature
where the meaning twists
if your analogy insists
and occupies your mind
I think you’re going to find
that everything has meaning
that is other than it is
They tell you it is that
when... it is really... this
The whole of life’s an allegory
ideas become humanized
and play a role that demonstrates
what every idea means
and you get a moral or a meaning
deeper than it seems
The ogre and the demon and the troll
are the parts not under our control
They are the dark emotions
and we give them form
in the acts of darker passion
They’re the Jinns who cause the storm
and make us hate each other
when every man’s your brother
Life is filled with symbols
in search of something warm
something vital...
living...
in identifying form
So... we make it all much clearer,
when we see it in the mirror
with no more we can discuss
When all of it is...
...all of us
The whole of life’s an allegory
ideas become humanized
and play a role that demonstrates
what every idea means
and you get a moral or a meaning
deeper than it seems
In The East, a dragon
is a symbol of good fortune
power and the will relate
as an identifying trait
In The West, they change their tune
and stand for chaos, greed. and ruin
I wish I knew the useful thing
that precedes the need for things
when everything’s projection
and different in China,
but somehow still the same
when we are free from prisons
we make out of form and name
The black knight was the carnal nature
In a game of nomenclature
where the meaning twists
if your analogy insists
and occupies your mind
I think you’re going to find
that everything has meaning
that is other than it is
They tell you it is that
when... it is really... this
The triangle and square
take shape right in the air,
and six cubes form a cross
and I am at a loss
for all the sides and faces
of those long-forgotten places
where it all made sense to me
The amazing monster paranoid machine
Is trans-mutating daylight into dreams
He’s hiding in the curtain,
but no one’s really certain
why he doesn’t want his amplifier seen
The whole of life’s an allegory
ideas become humanized
and play a role that demonstrates
what every idea means
and you get a moral or a meaning
deeper than it seems
Yes... you get another meaning
deeper than it seems
Reality’s the penalty
and cost of having dreams
Reality’s the penalty
and cost of having dreams
