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Watch What Is Really Going on

Akira the Don
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You can't you know You canโ€™t eat 10 roasts of beef in one day Can't live in six houses at once Can't drive three Rolls Royces At the same time what are you to do? Watch what is going on watch what happens Nobody ever does this, you know Nobody ever does this, you know Watch what is going on watch what happens Nobody ever does this, you know Nobody ever does this, you know Well, you just go make more money Put your money back Invest in something else, it'll make more You don't give a damn how it's made So long as they make it You don't care if they foul the rivers Put oil fumes throughout the air everywhere Kill off all the fish so what? So long as you see these figures happening You're not aware of anything else So you see You went out to do a self-improvement thing Making money, you see, is A measure of improvement A measure of your economic worthwhileness Or at least, that's what it's supposed to be It isn't anything of the kind But you went out, in other Words, for the status Instead of for the actuality Watch what is going on watch what happens Nobody ever does this, you know Nobody ever does this, you know Watch what is going on watch what happens Nobody ever does this, you know Nobody ever does this, you know You do art, you're a musician Why do you play music? The only reason for playing music is to enjoy If you play music to impress an audience Read about yourself in the newspaper You're not interested in music So in the same way Why do I come and talk to you? 'Cause I enjoy it I like the sound of my own voice I'm interested in what I'm talking about And I get paid for it Now, that's smart in this life You get paid for what you enjoy So here's the situation, you see The whole idea of self-improvement is A will-o'-the-wisp and a hoax That's not what it's about Let's begin where we are What happens if you know If you know beyond any shadow Of doubt that there Is nothing you can do to be better? Well, it's kind of a relief, isn't it? You say, "Well, now what will I do?" Because we are so used To making things better Leave the world a better place than When you found it sorta thing I want to be of service to other people And all these dreadfully hazy ideas But supposing instead of that Seeing that there isn't really anything we Can do to improve ourselves or To improve the world, if we realize that that Is so, it gives us a breather In the course of which we may simply Watch what is going on watch what happens Nobody ever does this, you know Nobody ever does this, you know Watch what is going on watch what happens Nobody ever does this, you know Nobody ever does this, you know Therefore, it sounds terribly simple It sounds so simple that it almost looks As if it isn't worth doing But have you ever just watched? Watch what's happening and watch what you are Doing by way of reaction to it Just watch it happen, and don't be in a hurry To think you know what it is In other words, people look So that's the external world Oh? How do you know? The whole thing, from a Neurological point of view There's a happening in your head That you think there is Something outside the skull Is a notion in your nervous system That may or may not be But it's a notion in your nervous system You think this is the material world Well, that's somebody's philosophical idea You think it's spiritual That too is somebody's philosophical idea This real world is not spiritual It is not material the real world is simply So could we look at things in that way Without fixing labels and names and Gradations and judgments on everything? But watch what happens watch what we do But watch what happens watch what we do