Tornado Alley (PROG)

[F6]

migo -- we all reduce complexity, make generalizations and simplifications, in search of pattern, of coherence in how we see that which is beyond ourselves -- we have to -- the trick is to never forget that those are just our shorthands, not the reality, and that our shorthands make sense only so long as and only to the extent they sensibly describe the reality -- a reality in this time like none before rapidly changing and becoming ever more complex

we are all but grasshoppers in a reality none of us can or will ever fully comprehend -- that's just how it is -- it's up to us to remember that's who and all we are -- and to keep trying, to keep plugging away, anyway

if, together, we do well enough, we'll have the chance to survive well into a future of almost incomprehensible promise extending beyond our prosaic little pale blue dot and solar system

and if not, if we can't get past our ingrained shorthands since left behind by reality, then we too, sooner rather than later, will be left behind by reality, vanished into the vastness of time already come and forever gone

simple as that

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Seal - Crazy (Studio Version)

In a church, by the face,
He talks about the people going under.

Only child know...

A man decides after seventy years,
That what he goes there for, is to unlock the door.
While those around him criticize and sleep...
And through a fractal on a breaking wall,
I see you my friend, and touch your face again.
Miracles will happen as we trip.

But were never gonna survive, unless...
We get a little crazy
No were never gonna survive, unless...
We are a little...

Cray...cray...cray...

...crazy yellow people walking through my head.
One of thems got a gun, to shoot the other one.
And yet together they were friends at school
Ohh, get it, get it, get it, get it no no!

If all were there when we first took the pill,
Then maybe, then maybe, then maybe, then maybe...
Miracles will happen as we speak.

But were never gonna survive unless...
We get a little crazy.
No were never gonna survive unless...
We are a little...
Crazy...
No no, never survive, unless we get a little... bit...

Oh, a little bit...
Oh, a little bit...

Oh...
Oh...

Amanda decides to go along after seventeen years...

Oh darlin...
In a sky full of people, only some want to fly,
Isnt that crazy?
In a world full of people, only some want to fly,
Isnt that crazy?
Crazy...
In a heaven of people theres only some want to fly,
Aint that crazy?
Oh babe... oh darlin...
In a world full of people theres only some want to fly,
Isnt that crazy?
Isnt that crazy... isnt that crazy... isnt that crazy...

Ohh...
But were never gonna survive unless, we get a little crazy.. crazy..
No were never gonna to survive unless we are a little... crazy..
But were never gonna survive unless, we get a little crazy.. crazy..
No were never gonna to survive unless, we are a little.. crazy..
No no, never survive unless, we get a little bit...

And then you see things
The size
Of which youve never known before

Theyll break it

Someday...

Only child know....

Them things
The size
Of which youve never known before

Someday...
Someway...
Someday...
Someway...
Someday...
Someway...
Someday...

(play in HQ -- for the sound)
[also at

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coupla good live versions (forgive me, love this song -- perfect driving music -- takes me to out on the plains, miles from anywhere, hand resting at the bottom of the wheel effortlessly guiding the trusty old 427 twin down open road -- spectacular supercell, in full fury realizing its brief moment of being, thundering into the sky close ahead -- for me peace in a moment of timelessness, encountering the eternal, and eternity):

Seal - Crazy [MTV Unplugged]

(play in HQ -- for the sound) (very nice)

Seal - Crazy

(play in HD -- for the sound)

SEAL - CRAZY

Seal - Crazy - Domingão do Faustão

(course, any or all of the above links may go dark over time -- but no worries -- just go to

-- it'll be there)