From a Certain Point of View

The web is a trap Like the spider's web is a trap for flies Also, the lovely embroideries are worn by women as traps for men From a certain point of view From a certain point of view And I want to consider the web as something playful You see there are so many ways of looking at it And you will find that all these ways are right But what we need is the fullness of the view From a certain point of view Of the view From a certain point of view What we need is the fullness of the view From a certain point of view From a certain point of view What we need is the fullness of the view From a certain point of view From a certain point of view What we need is the fullness of the view From a certain point of view From a certain point of view What we need is the fullness of the view From a certain point of view From a certain point of view There are people for example who can see the web as a trap And get stuck with that There are people to whom existence is simply hateful They see it as nothing but a ghastly mistake The Lord really erred when he created this world Because he arranged it in such a way that everything lives By eating something else And what I'm doing is I'm describing a certain point of view (From a certain point of view) I'm not exactly philosophizing, I'm describing a point of view You can look at life in such a way That the whole thing is this ghastly mistake For example, there's no such thing as genuine kindness or love Everybody is really pretending that they are loving other people In order to get some advantage from it And indeed there's a point of view Which occurs in certain forms of paranoia Where people who don't seem to be real they are mechanisms And you can think that out quite intensely With a good deal of intelligence After all if you start from a good old Darwinian or Freudian basis And see that man is a material machine And that the consciousness of man is simply a very evolved And complicated form of chemistry Well then these awful mechanical things These Frankenstein's that everybody is, they come around and they say "Well I'm alive, I'm a human being, I have a heart I love, I hate, I have problems, I feel." And you feel like saying "Come off it, you're just a monster And you put on the civilized act because really You're just a set of teeth on the end of a tube." What we need is the fullness of the view From a certain point of view From a certain point of view What we need is the fullness of the view From a certain point of view From a certain point of view What we need is the fullness of the view From a certain point of view From a certain point of view What we need is the fullness of the view From a certain point of view From a certain point of view And you've got a ganglion behind those teeth Which you call your brain and your so alleged mind And this thing is really basically there for two purposes One to be cunning enough to get something To eat to put down the tube And the other, you know what, Mr. Freud libido And everything else you see can be construed As an elaborate subtle way of pretending That that's not really what you want to do, but you do But you put on a great show Now some people according to this view get mixed up They are so repressed That what they really want to do is to eat and to screw They get involved in higher things That are the masks for these activities And think that that's the real purpose of life And then they become what's called neurotic Because they get involved in being pure camouflage That's what's called escaping from the facts Not looking at life, not looking at reality correctly