This Too Shall Pass-Danny Schmidt

[ti:This Too Shall Pass] [ar:Danny Schmidt] [al:Parables and Primes] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]This Too Shall Pass - Danny Schmidt [00:42.95]Things change fast [00:43.93] [00:44.93]But this too shall pass [00:46.49]Better carve it on your forehead [00:48.34]Or tattoo it on your ass [00:49.97]Cause who can tell [00:51.04] [00:52.28]When the clock strikes twelve [00:54.29]If today's become tomorrow [00:56.09]Or if it's all just gone to hell [00:57.69]My friend makes rings [00:59.01] [00:59.91]She swirls and sings [01:02.18]She's a mystic in the sense [01:03.78]That she's still mystified by things [01:05.78]But scared to ask [01:06.83] [01:07.51]How can nothing last [01:09.65]Cause like a cancer in your body [01:11.89]It all just goes too fast [01:13.78] [01:29.28]We think too big [01:31.03]We think our self is one whole thing [01:32.77]And we claim that this collection [01:35.01]Has a name and is a being [01:36.57]But deep inside [01:37.58] [01:38.18]When every cell divides [01:40.59]It sets upon the rule that states [01:42.86]Self-interest is divine [01:44.53]Cancer too [01:45.61] [01:46.29]Lives by this golden rule [01:48.72]That you must do unto the others [01:50.67]As the others unto you [01:52.21]All for the best [01:53.28] [01:54.00]Cause that's all the life accepts [01:56.01]And so we kill it like a buffalo [01:58.65]With awe and with respect [02:00.46] [02:16.19]Don't ask God [02:17.41] [02:18.21]Just ask the sky [02:19.90]She'll tell it to you plainly [02:21.56]In the clouds that whisper by [02:23.67]And praise the shapes [02:24.80] [02:25.61]And then praise the way they change [02:27.36]And they'll teach you not to pray to light [02:29.59]Without you pray to rain [02:31.07]So I pray to hands [02:32.28] [02:32.96]And I pray to needs [02:34.17] [02:35.04]And I pray to blades of grass [02:37.21]To find forgiveness in the weeds [02:38.66]But as for health [02:39.86] [02:40.82]I just never did believe [02:42.78]And so I never prayed myself [02:45.00]Except to those that prayed for me [02:47.07] [03:02.69]The story goes [03:03.43] [03:04.61]Or the way that I was told [03:06.40]There was a king that always felt too high [03:09.04]And then he fell too low [03:10.42]And so he called [03:11.53] [03:12.45]All the wise men to the hall [03:14.02]And begged them for a gift [03:16.03]To end the rises and the falls [03:18.39]And here's the thing [03:19.36] [03:20.68]They came back with a ring [03:22.37]It was simple and was plainly [03:24.26]Unbefitting of a king [03:26.30]Engraved in black [03:27.19] [03:28.06]It had no front or back [03:30.11]But there were words around [03:31.35]The band that said [03:32.51]Just know this too shall pass