Perspective Songtext
von Rachel Kann

And this
And this

And this is that shifting impossible
Perspective that is the human condition
And this
And this
And this is that shifting impossible
Perspective that is the human condition

Lately
When I close my eyes to sleep
My dreams incarnate in variegated stages of invasion

It′s amazing the multiplicity of ways
The symbols
Instant replay
My home overtaken by uninvited men holding
Out handshakes full of agendas and screenplays
Or I'm so close I can see the faces of
The snipers on the side of the freeway
Or doorless rooms


Air heavy with the cool spun glass of icicle satin fog
Clogging my lung passages with anthrax
And does it really matter that my stature is
Completely out of hand to mouth existence
And that I am so far out of touch with my internal
Needs that I can′t even remember the feeling of hungry
For anything

Why scrutinize my own life when it's all
Just relative on the spectrum of perception

And this
And this
And this is that shifting impossible
Perspective that is the human condition
And this
And this
And this is that shifting impossible
Perspective that is the human condition

I reside like we all do inside my own decided mythology
I can say I completely failed at said intended eventuality
Or I can flip the script and simply claim that another path chose me
Both smack of insincerity leaving me
Liquefied more fluidity than history
Meaning I can't with any degree of certainty even give
You a concrete map of what led me to this microphone
Right here, right now
Terrified


Trembling with too much truth
All for you
Memory is as objective as the inconstant moon
As a gaze at our own reflection
Or an earful of our own vocal projection

And this
And this
And this is that shifting impossible
Perspective that is the human condition
And this
And this
And this is that shifting impossible
Perspective that is the human condition

We are inverted paradoxes
Inside out stars with the light shining in
Contained in our skin
Sweet little packages of magic that can′t unwrap themselves
But I′m trying to
For me and you
I'm trying to confide in me and you that we are beautiful
Trying to remind me and you that we can only ever truly be safe in
This temporary luminous universe of helium balloons and illusions

We are human beings
Simply earthlings existing
This mortals coiled like childish live wire trying to unravel rapture
Delivering little scriptures full of penniless potential
Filling fountains with thousands of wishes
One sent to this planet with de facto struggles to overcome
And even with all the varying degrees of lucidity surrounding me
We still can at the very least collectively agree that

This is where we are
And this is when we be
And even you thinking that that doesn′t mean anything
It really fucking means something to me you know
And I want to give you that single sentence that gets us all sentient

And this is that shifting
And this is that shifting
I wish I could pull it down to a word or better yet one letter
Impossible perspective
Impossible perspective
Or even more so just a moan or an intake of breath like
But you can never truly separate
That is the human condition
Even subatomic particles change their behavior under our observation
And here am I trying to capture life like butterflies

And this
And this
And this is that shifting impossible
Perspective that is the human condition

And I only do it because I love you