John Cain: Hear Music/See Lyric
Life
(JOHN CAIN)
March 13, 1998
Music & Lyric by John Cain
Life is the opposite of non-existence
And the universe is everything that there is
The planet earth is spinning in a circle around the sun
As the molecules and cells and atoms dance
It could be random chance
Perhaps a grander scheme
Some say it’s just a dream and everything’s not what it seems
Time is a frustrating space to be caught in
But we ride it out ‘cause we don’t have a choice
And it seems to take forever
Even at the speed of light
As our chemical reactions, in the bight,
Are sparking in the dark
And lighting up my brain
As though a bio-plasmic hologram is all I am
And you can believe anything you conceive of
And then pretend it’s true until the day that you die
But the truth is still reality and reality is real
Still it doesn’t change the way it makes you feel
And that’s the mystery, at least it is to me
‘cause there’s a history of reasons how we got this way
but who am I to say, ‘cause I don’t really know
but evidently love is
what is making the whole thing go