Otherness Songtext
von Assemblage 23

To give completely
From within yourself
To treat compassion as the truest form of wealth

No small adjustment
For the average soul
To give yourself away in order to be whole

To trust completely
With an open heart
To risk the wounds of having it all fall apart

Seems paralyzing
With implicit risk
But the packaging is not what makes the gift


It isn′t weakness
It isn't frailty
It′s being human
And it's sustaining

To love completely
And utterly
To give yourself away so unselfconsciously

It's altruism
In its purest form
A kind of otherness from which ego is torn

It isn′t weakness
It isn′t frailty
It's being human
And it′s sustaining