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2014/09/10

Knots...

There is something I don't know
That I am supposed to know.
I don't know what it is I don't know,
And yet am supposed to know,
And I feel I look stupid
If I seem both not to know it
And not know what it is I don't know
Therefore, I pretend I know it.

This is nerve-racking
Since I don't know what I must pretend to know
Therefore, I pretend to know everything.

I feel you know what I'm supposed to know
But you can't tell me what it is
Because you don't know
That I don't know what it is.

You may know what I don't know,
But not that I don't know it
And I can't tell you
So you will have to tell me everything.

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Hay algo que no sé
Y debería saber.
No sé qué es lo que no sé,
Y sin embargo debería saber,
Y me siento como un tonto
Si parezco no saber eso
Y no saber qué es lo que no sé
Por lo tanto, finjo saberlo.

Esto me destroza los nervios
Ya que no sé qué es lo que debo fingir que sé
Por lo tanto, finjo que lo sé todo.

Me parece que tu sabes qué es lo que debería saber
Pero no puedes decirme qué es
Porque no sabes
Que yo no sé lo que es.

Tal vez sepas lo que yo no sé,
Pero no que yo no lo sé
Y no puedo decírtelo
Así que tendrás que decírmelo todo.

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R. D. Laing.




2014/08/26

Move the Mountain


Would you move the mountain,
Would you build a tower,
Would you drink the sunshine,
Like a wilted flower?

Would you waste that hour
If you knew this full moon would be
The last one you'd see?

Would you gaze in wonder
While the world was turning,
While the moon made quiet
All the years of yearning?

Would the flame keep burning,
If you knew the powers that be
Could set you free?

Don't know why you had to go
In the stormy night, a flame in the darkness
And we'll never really know
If you'll ever see me again.

Swam around in circles,
In the angry ocean
Had a dream of safety
That's lost emotion.

Could a faded notion
Make you find your way back to shore,
Looking for more?

So we head for safety,
But we never get there
And I brush the shadows
From your scary nightmare

On the road to nowhere,
Would you help me carry my cross and set me free?

Don't know why you had to go
In the stormy night, a flame in the darkness
And we'll never really know
If you'll ever see me again...