Observation (feat. Jason Riis)

Were you going to
Take that bag
To the store?
Because I never understood
How action and response
Equals a bitter realization

But before I assume
That the LED bulbs
Are blinking
I'll close my eyes
And drift through
My conception
Of my intestines

I've seen them in books
I've alluded to them
I've alluded to them

And as the after effects
Of your latest meal
Remind you of Jesus
Sitting at a table
Trusting
Always trusting
And being betrayed

I want to reach out
The idea of my hand
To you
Reach out the idea
Of lifting you up
Placing you on another plane
Where only the highest frequencies
Will touch you
Gamma
Theta
Delta
Beta

And as the world melts away
And what passes for
Telescopes today
Capture gravitational waves
After they've cancelled
All our activities
Our endless recombining
What will this do?
What will that do?
What will they do
Together?

Nobody knows
Nobody can say
They can guess
They can estimate
But the equation
That equals everything
Is a bit off
Just a tad
At our scale

But at the scale of the universe
And whatever infinity is
Well it might as well be
Horseshoes
Flung
At Mars
From the Safeway store
At the corner
Of Marmont and Austin
Avenues

And I never imagined
I never claimed
I never covered
An old cake
With frosting
I just hung back
And listened for a while
Got the lay of the land
Made my little plan

To expose myself
To the Christians
Give them a chance
Like I do everyone else
Why should they be special?

But before I stub my desires
I'm going to be you
Because you are an explosion
You're energy
You're the particle-wave dichotomy
And observation
Is just a metaphor