The 3 Principles of Wabi-Sabi

Craters on a pale moon Pale skin, scarred from old wounds First eye blind, third is narcoleptic Views of the matrix through my second I am the king of HalloweenTown World's pressure - bringing' me down Surgery marks, broken-down body Nerves on fire, melancholy Of a perfectionist in a world of entropy Still trying to find identity Body can't do soul justice Like, clear signal, radio's busted Enso circles, insect crawling Cracked pencil, I'm still drawing Mathematics, beauty, purpose I stay searching - nothing is perfect Feelin' moody in the music (I know) Gotta duty to the Muses (fa sho) 'Cause their beauty is elusive (let go) But it's movin' me to yugen (oh whoa) Third day frost, Cold Mountain Master I slow down and time goes faster Youth like yesterday in mind Knew no pain, freedom was mine Divine, kept safe in my palace Little buddha left home now like Alice Sand dune, sakura bloom But the colors fade so soon Mark one of existence We are here then gone in an instant, sic transit Elephant footprint in the dirt and the elements They change with the seasons And the roots of flowers deepen, here's the secret You should nourish them now, winter will return again Because nothing is permanent Feelin' moody in the music (I know) Gotta duty to the Muses (fa sho) 'Cause their beauty is elusive (let go) But it's movin' me to yugen (oh whoa) A lantern with no fire left In a writer's room full of spider webs An energy emits from the author's chair A feather with ink still there But he's gone, underground though his words live on Like poetry from the beyond So many papers filled with masterpieces But not one has been completed No coda for his symphony His final chapter's full of mystery Yeah, orphan of silence is the art 'Cause words can't match full hearts They say - when the lanterns reignite The dead man will return to write 'Cause lights change forms and transition But never burn out; nothing is finished Feelin' moody in the music (I know) Gotta duty to the Muses (fa sho) 'Cause their beauty is elusive (let go) But it's movin' me to yugen (oh whoa)