Would protestors still gush to city center If the universe would honk B-flat and halt? Would cop cars still be rushing to their crime scenes If farmers drop their seeds and drop their salts? And then there's me, the temporary custodian Of these particles, and free floating radicals That convene for 80 years, that's if I'm lucky though Never been very lucky though What an extraordinary thing it is to be this ordinary thing A phenomenal nominal nominal nominal nothing This is what it's like; we will not be saved We went looking for the sublime, we find only the inane This is what we are; and we will not be changed You can look for unseen order You're gonna find that chaos reigns We will not be saved So if my carcass finds itself a mishap But I avoid the room with center drains The doctors will remove my dressing and casts To a room that falls sin silent mouths aghast They've seen nothing but the product of a billion years Of evolution's deliverance - you'd think I'd act like it So let me fed the flora fauna once when all my feeding's done This zoo of bacterium What an extraordinary thing it is to be this ordinary thing This is what it's like; we will not be saved We went looking for the sublime, we find only the inane This is what we are; and we will not be changed You can look for unseen order You're gonna find that chaos reigns We will not be saved Just let go If a tree falls in the woods it doesn't matter What's the sound of one hand clapping? It doesn't matter Is it the chicken or the egg? It doesn't matter What do you do when you do nothing? It doesn't matter It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter Just let go