Little Subject

I'm deep in the void
And you are here with me
A little bubble of something
In the middle of nothing
With nothing inside it
But me and you
And the nothing inside me
And the nothing inside you
And the nothing between us
Little bubble of something
Full of nothing
In the endless nothingness
In the void of space
I'm deep in emptiness with you

Look inward!
Look within, fool!
Look in your soul
Look in the mirror
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Amnesia infects the sowers
When it's reapin' time at last
Everyone disclaims the seed
Denies the field where it had fallen
Like a whore's alleged bastard son
When it's time to own up
It's all - who me? I don't know
No, no, I do nothing of consequence
I'm nobody at all

Look inward!
Look within, fool!
Look in your soul
Look in the mirror
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I'm just a little subject, barely even an object,
I'm just a little subject, not an agent of my own,
Oh no, I'm just a subject,
Subject to circumstance and forces
Subject to history and context
Subject to the system and the world
I'm just a little subject, not an agent of my own.

Look inward!
Look within, fool!
Look in your soul
Look in the mirror
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Why are you NOT self-AWARE?
Why are you NOT honest
With your SELF?
Why are you NOT self CRITICAL?
YOU ARE NOT PERFECT
You viscerally know it
If you were PERFECT
You could kill me right now
With a THOUGHT
You thought? Yeah, no
You CAN'T - shut UP!
(I know you tried)

I'm just a little subject, barely even an object,
I'm just a little subject, not an agent of my own,
Oh no, I'm just a subject,
Subject to circumstance and forces
Subject to history and context
Subject to the system and the world
I'm just a little subject, not an agent of my own.Look inward!

Look inward!
Look within, fool!
Look in your soul
Look in the mirror
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

The suffering of joy
Is that joy is always fleeting
Always weighted by past losses and the risk of future loss.

The joy of losing it all

And the suffering of love
Is known to anyone
Who ever loved anything:
Love is such a pain.

All's fair in love all's fair in war

Even wealth is suffering
Wealth always bearing
Anxiety, liability and legacy
(Wealth is encumbrance)
Never mitigation of desire in itself
Only re-orientation from material to spiritual want.

Material spirit want

Suffering is the prism
Refracting all human experience
Suffering is eliminated
Only by foreclosing on human experience itself.

Survival elimination war

Buddha got it right
Thousands of years ago
As long as you remain attached
To the world and to the self
You will suffer in the world and with the self.

Let the world go - let go of self!

Look inward!
Look within, fool!
Look in your soul
Look in the mirror
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I won't let go!!!
A steel gauntlet grips my fate
Crushed like delicate virgin's neck
A cruel ravisher's war-claim
Death or no
No escape from shame
But I won't let go!!!
Live free or die a slave
I choose - I choose - I choose
To have faith
Suffer - suffer - suffer more
Let me stay
I want to suffer -- more!
(Suffer more)
I won't let go!!
Enlightened or ignorant
Intending to fight, suffer, and die
I won't let go!!!
Intending to do it again, and do it more
I won't let go!!
I won't let go!!!
I won't let go!!!

Look inward!
Look within, fool!
Look in your soul
Look in the mirror
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Death or no
No escape from shame
But I won't let go!!!
Live free or die a slave
I choose - I choose - I choose
To have faith
Suffer - suffer - suffer more
Let me suffer -- more!
(Suffer more)
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I'm deep in the void
And you are here with me
A little bubble of something
In the middle of nothing
With nothing inside it
But me and you
And the nothing inside me
And the nothing inside you
And the nothing between us
Little bubble of something
Full of nothing

In the endless nothingness
In the void of space
I'm deep in void of space with you

Looking with the nothing in me
At the nothing in you
Through the nothing between us
Seeing nothing in you
Seeing nothing and you
Seeing nothing
I see you

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

And I won't let go!
I won't let go!
I won't let go!
Oh no, I won't let go
I won't let go
I won't let go -- of you.
I've grown attached.

(Won't let go of you)