Patterns On the Waves

Now, I want to put it two ways I'm not saying That it's a bad thing, something to be condemned To take your own individual life seriously In dead earnest And to have all the problems that go with that Do understand that being that way That being a real mixed-up human being Is a manifestation of nature That is something just like the patterns on the waves out here Patterns on the waves Patterns on the waves Patterns on the waves Patterns on the waves Or like a seashell? You know, we pick up shells I always keep one around As sort of an example for many things And say, "My goodness, isn't that gorgeous!" There's not an aesthetic fault in it anywhere It's absolutely perfect Now, I wonder I wonder if these fish look at each other's shells and say "Don't you think she's kind of fat? Oh my, those markings aren't really very well spaced." Because that's what we do Patterns on the waves Patterns on the waves That's what we do Patterns on the waves Patterns on the waves That's what we do See, we don't realize that all of us In our various goings-on, and behavior And so on are more marvelous, much more complicated Much more interesting All these gorgeous faces that I'm looking at You know, every one of them Some of them are supposedly pretty Some of them are supposedly not so pretty But they're all absolutely gorgeous And everybody's eyes is a piece of jewelry beyond compare Beautiful! Beautiful! Beautiful! Beautiful! Beautiful! Patterns on the waves Patterns on the waves That's what we do Patterns on the waves Patterns on the waves That's what we do