Akira the Don & Alan Watts - From a Certain Point of View Lyrics

The web is a trapLike the spider's web is a trap for fliesAlso, the lovely embroideries are worn by women as traps for men from a certain point of viewFrom a certain point of viewAnd I want to consider the web as something playfulYou see there are so many ways of looking at itAnd you will find that all these ways are right, but what we need is the fullness of the viewFrom a certain point of viewOf the viewFrom a certain point of viewThe web is a trapLike the spider's web is a trap for fliesAlso, the lovely embroideries are worn by women as traps for men from a certain point of viewFrom a certain point of viewAnd I want to consider the web as something playfulYou see there are so many ways of looking at itAnd you will find that all these ways are right, but what we need is the fullness of the viewFrom a certain point of viewOf the viewFrom a certain point of view[Chorus]What we need is the fullness of the viewFrom a certain point of viewFrom a certain point of viewWhat we need is the fullness of the viewFrom a certain point of viewFrom a certain point of viewWhat we need is the fullness of the viewFrom a certain point of viewFrom a certain point of viewWhat we need is the fullness of the viewFrom a certain point of viewFrom a certain point of viewThere are people for example who can see the web as a trap, and get stuck with thatThere are people to whom existence is simply hatefulThey see it as nothing but a ghastly mistakeThe Lord really erred when he created this worldBecause he arranged it in such a way that everything lives by eating something elseAnd what I'm doing is I'm describing a certain point of view(From a certain point of view)I'm not exactly philosophizing, I'm describing a point of viewYou can look at life in such a way that the whole thing is this ghastly mistakeFor example, there's no such thing as genuine kindness or loveEverybody is really pretending that they are loving other people in order to get some advantage from itAnd indeed there's a point of view which occurs in certain forms of paranoiaWhere people who don't seem to be real they are mechanisms, and you can think that out quite intensely with a good deal of intelligenceAfter all if you start from a good old Darwinian or Freudian basisAnd see that man is a material machine, and that the consciousness of man is simply a very evolved and complicated form of chemistryWell then these awful mechanical things, these Frankenstein's that everybody is, they come around and they say"Well I'm alive, I'm a human being, I have a heart. I love, I hate, I have problems, I feel."And you feel like saying"Come off it, you're just a monster. And you put on the civilized act because really you're just a set of teeth on the end of a tube."[Chorus]What we need is the fullness of the viewFrom a certain point of viewFrom a certain point of viewWhat we need is the fullness of the viewFrom a certain point of viewFrom a certain point of viewWhat we need is the fullness of the viewFrom a certain point of viewFrom a certain point of viewWhat we need is the fullness of the viewFrom a certain point of viewFrom a certain point of viewAnd you've got a ganglion behind those teethWhich you call your brain and your so alleged mindAnd this thing is really basically there for two purposesOne to be cunning enough to get something to eat to put down the tubeAnd the other, you know what, Mr. Freud libidoAnd everything else you see can be construed as an elaborate subtle way of pretending that that's not really what you want to do, but you doBut you put on a great showNow some people according to this view get mixed up, they are so repressedThat what they really want to do is to eat and to screw, they get involved in higher things that are the masks for these activitiesAnd think that that's the real purpose of lifeAnd then they become what's called neurotic[Laugh]Because they get involved in being pure camouflageThat's what’s called escaping from the factsNot looking at life, not looking at reality correctly