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about
The way of the sculpting of sound in time
For “I Don’t Get It,” or any Good Enough rhyme,
Has naught to do with experimentation
Or artistic expression of self-exploration,
But rather the “beginner’s mind” and the thought
That the waves of sounds themselves are begot
By the thought in the mind which itself is as much
As nature as the rocks and the flowers we touch,
Which in turn are as much as nature as that
As the moon and the stars and the bang which begat
The universe, and thus we’ll consider it so
That “I Don’t Get It” is part of the flow
Of all things, so equally part of the show
As the blade of the grass and the black of the vinyl,
Like all things – complete and yet never final,
But no need to listen to us for the route;
The way will not from sound come about.
You won’t find the path in a record on your shelf;
The course of nature is so of itself.
-Good Enough for Grandpa 2016
lyrics
I’m just looking for some kind of answers, you know, some kind of advice. I want to become wise; I want to learn about the way things are. Maybe there’s someone out there who can show me the way.
You don’t need to learn; advice is not what you need.
You must unlearn all things of which you took heed.
I guess I’m not really sure what you’re saying by that. So I should stop reading books, stop learning from people? I’d say I’m a very passionate person -- very passionate about learning. I’m a scholar; I’m a student of life. I’m looking for some meaning, and I can’t find meaning by forgetting everything that I know. Can I?
You are at fault already in your search for meaning.
You must too stop the search and start the process of weaning
Yourself from the knowledge you suckle within,
And know that the end is where you begin,
For the start, the middle, and end are all one,
And one, of course, is not one without none.
Thanks, I appreciate the poetry and the esoteric ideas, to a degree. Your words remind me of something one of my baby-sitters used to say: "if you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading." But to be honest, I still don't get it.
credits
from oscarsongs,
released December 3, 2016
Music written and performed by Good Enough for Grandpa in Portland, Oregon 2016.
Mastered by Gus Elg at Sky Onion Studio in Portland, Oregon.
Greg Eldridge - electronics, spoken word, accordion, percussion
David Allred - vocals, electric bass, percussion
Papa Linda as Jeremiah Berger on the Casio CZ-3000 Lyrics by Greg Eldridge
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