Watch What Is Going On Songtext
von Akira the Don feat. Alan Watts

You can′t
You can'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, hat'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