The six blind men and the elephant.

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Imagine that six blind men encounter an elephant for the first time ... One blind man bumps into the leg of the elephant, feeling it carefully... Another blind man bumps into the trunk of the elephant which is swaying around and groping in ...his pocket looking for food ... Another blind man bumps into the elephant's tail which is hanging limply down from above, and he carefully feels the tail ... Another blind man bumps into the side of the elephant, and feels it... Another blind man groping around, feels an ear of the elephant, which the elephant is flapping back and forth... the last blind man bumps into one of the elephants tusks, feeling the sharp point of the tusk... Later, they are discussing their experience of feeling an elephant ... The first blind man says, "An elephant is like a tree trunk growing up out of the ground" ...“The second blind man says, "no, no, an elephant is not like a tree trunk, an elephant is like a big snake, twisting and moving around" ... The third blind man says, " No, an elephant is not like a tree or snake, an elephant is like a thick rope hanging down from above !” ... The fourth blind man say, "no, an elephant is like a wall"... the fifth blind man says,"you are all wrong, an elephant is like a fan flapping back and forth"... and the last blind man says, "it is not like any of those things, "It is like a spear with a sharp point"... Each one knows what he experienced and to him that is the "truth", so each blind man is convinced that he is "right", and that the other five are "wrong" ... These rational blind men will easily conclude that an elephant cannot be "a tree", "a wiggling snake", "a rope hanging down", "a wall", a "flapping fan", and a sharp spear", all at the same time ... If each of these blind men were a "prophet", and the elephant were the "God concept", each would found a different religion based on his own experience ... Each would espouse a seemingly different God concept, which each would claim to be true ... The six concepts (the leg, the trunk, the tail, the side, the ear, and the tusk of the elephant) would seem to be six totally different contradictory ideas ... But if they could "see" the whole elephant they would realize that there was no contradiction ... Each had experienced a detail of the total elephant ... But each had missed the concept of "ELEPHANT” completely ... In this way, each was true, and yet each was also false.

Thinking of you

Lying all alone and restless, unable to lose this image
Sleepless, unable to focus on anything but your surrender

Tuggin' a rythm to the vision that's in my head
Tuggin' a beat to the sight of you lying

So delighted with a new understanding
Something about a little evil that makes
That unmistakable noise I was hearing
Unmistakable sound that I know so well

Spent and sighing with a look in your eyes
Spit and sweatin' with a look on your face like

Sweet revelation, sweet surrender,
Surrender, surrender, surrender

Tuggin' a rythm to the vision that's in my head
Tuggin' a beat to the sight of you lying

So delighted with a new understanding
Something about a little evil that makes
That unmistakable noise I was hearing
Unmistakeable sound I know so well

Spent and sighing with a look in your eyes
Spent an sweatin' with a look on your face like

Sweet revelation, sweet surrendering
Sweet revelation, sweet

Thinking of you, thinking of you,
Thinking...

Sweet revelation, sweet surrendering
Sweet revelation...

by A Perfect Circle

Wild Is The Wind

I tried to make you happy
You know I tried so hard to be
What you hoped that I would be
I gave you what wanted
God couldn't give you what you need
You wanted more from me
Than I could ever be
You wanted heart and soul
But you didn't know, baby

Wild, wild is the wind
That takes me away from you
Cold is the night without your love
To see me through
Wild, wild is the wind
That blows through my heart

Wild is the wind,
Wild is the wind
You got to understand, baby
Wild is the wind

You need someone to hold you
Somebody to be there night and day
Someone to kiss your fears away
I just went on pretending
Too weak, too proud, too tough to say
I couldn't be the one
To make your dreams come true
That's why I had to run
Though I needed you, baby

Wild, wild is the wind
That takes me away from you
Cold is the night without your love
To see me through, baby
Wild, wild is the wind
That blows through my heart tonight
That tears us apart

Wild is the wind,
Wild is the wind
You got to understand, baby
Wild is the wind

Maybe a better man
Would live and die for you
Baby, a better man would
Never say goodbye to you

Wild, wild is the wind
That takes me away from you
Cold is the night without your love
To see me through, baby
Wild, wild is the wind
That blows through my heart tonight
That tears us apart

Wild is the wind,
Wild is the wind
You got to understand, baby
Wild is the wind

by Bon Jovi

Walking on a Better Day

As you went out tonight
You seemed to be alright.
You're so mysterious,
Your eyes so serious…
You're walking on a better day.

You've never crossed the line
Of our dimension of time.
You've tried to feel the truth,
With your old point of view.

I know it's hard for you,
I've tried to do it too.
You're walking on a better day.

If I ever put myself on stage
I'll never see your love again…
You'll deny it now, you'll deny it now,
But I know it's true for sure.
You're waiting for one more signal.
Just waiting for one more signal.

You're walking on a better day.

If I ever freeze your chest with fear
I'll never touch your heart again...
Don't deny me now, don't deny me now,
Don't deny my love for you.
I'm searching for someone to laugh with.

You're walking on a better day.

by Blasted Mechanism

The Wreckage Of My Flesh

Loathsome I've become.
A creature so undone.
Wretched and broken.
I cannot find my faith.
Any God will do.
Nothing said is new.
Nothing said is true.
Fly away my hope.

The embrace of shade holds me dear
Eats me away.
Loose the dogs of disgrace upon me.
I have no faith.
Raise the poor outcast I have become.
I am undone.
Calm is the air. Still is the sea.
The valley of death keeps calling me.

Rest my eyes from the world.
This dying place, it's so absurd.
Oh, Christ above, whom I love.
Lost to me. My snow white dove.
Make this day like the night.
Songs of darkness and words of light.
Pulling down my heart.
I won't forget my lover's heart.

With utter loathing and scorn,
I was somehow born.
Strewn in black decay.
None shall I obey.
The wreckage of my flesh
The nakedness of my death.

by My Dying Bride

Snuff

Bury all your secrets in my skin
Come away with innocence and leave me with my sins
The air around me still feels like a cage
And love is just a camouflage for what resembles rage again

So if you love me let me go
And run away before I know
My heart is just too dark to care
I can't destroy what isn't there

Deliver me into my fate
If I'm alone I cannot hate
I don't deserve to have you
Ooh, my smile was taken long ago
If I can change I hope I never know

I still press your letters to my lips
And cherish them in parts of me that savor every kiss
I couldn't face a life without your lights
But all of that was ripped apart when you refused to fight

So save your breath, I will not care
I think I made it very clear
You couldn't hate enough to love
Is that supposed to be enough?

I only wish you weren't my friend
Then I could hurt you in the end
I never claimed to be a saint
Ooh, my own was banished long ago
It took the death of hope to let you go

So break yourself against my stones
And spit your pity in my soul
You never needed any help
You sold me out to save yourself

And I won't listen to your shame
You ran away, you're all the same
Angels lie to keep control
Ooh, my love was punished long ago
If you still care don't ever let me know
If you still care don't ever let me know!

by Slipknot

This Love

If ever words were spoken
Painful and untrue
I said I loved but I lied
In my life
All I wanted
Was the keeping
Of someone like you
As it turns out
Deeper within me
Love was twisted and pointed at you

Never ending pain, quickly ending life --

You keep this love, thing, child, toy
You keep this love, fist, scar, break
You keep this love

I'd been the tempting one
Stole her from herself
This gift in pain
Her pain was life
And sometimes I feel so sorry
I regret this the hurting of you
But you make me so unhappy
I'd take my life and leave love with you

I'd kill myself for you, I'd kill you for myself --

You keep this love, thing, child, toy
You keep this love, fist, scar, break
You keep this love

No more head trips!

by Pantera