Forgive and Forget
I don’t believe in Heaven
I aim to have my fun here on Earth
Since the age of ten or eleven,
I’ve been questioning everything’s worth
How can you resolve
the body and the soul,
the heart and the mind,
the star and the black hole?
I don’t believe in Paradise
This place is all we get
But if I got to do it all twice,
I’d happily forgive and forget
How can you resolve
the idea and the expression,
the emergence and the burial,
the crime and the confession?
Well these are all just words
A plague upon philosopher kings
The crowd is the noise, the goal-line gets blurred –
What solace forgetfulness brings
Well memory’s just a word –
The balm of the philosopher kings
You can crawl back to the herd
Or see what the future brings –
Let’s see what the future brings
Forgive and forget
And see what the future brings
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