This Way That Way

Really, deep down, we are – each one of us – everything that there is Doing it this way, and then again that way, and then again another way Doing it this way, and then again that way, and then again another way Really, deep down, we are – each one of us – everything that there is Doing it this way, and then again that way, and then again another way And that's what it keeps up doing for ever, and ever Only, it has holidays Which are called deaths You know, in the story of the creation of the world, in the Bible God works for seven days and rests the seventh It's necessary to have a holiday Holiday is holy day The point is – that a holiday – this pause Between something going on—is of the essence of the idea of a web There's a famous Irishman who is supposed to Have described a net as "a lot of holes tied together with string." So the holes are very, very important And these are the holy days You see? The holes It all goes together Really, deep down, we are – each one of us – everything that there is Doing it this way, and then again that way, and then again another way Doing it this way, and then again that way, and then again another way Really, deep down, we are – each one of us – everything that there is Doing it this way, and then again that way, and then again another way And that's what it keeps up doing for ever, and ever So there must be that interval, and it exists on all kinds of levels It isn't simply that there is for example, a sound that is Sounded is a vibration, and the sound goes on and off Everything that we call sound is sound-silence There is no such thing as pure sound; you couldn't hear it What you hear is that "tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap" Against the eardrum But it happens very fast so that you get more of An impression of sound than you do of silence But between every little undulation of sound there is also an interval When you listen to music you hear a melody When you listen to music you hear a melody When you listen to music you hear a melody When you listen to music you hear a melody When you listen to music you hear a melody When you listen to music you hear a melody Really, deep down, we are – each one of us – everything that there is Doing it this way, and then again that way, and then again another way Doing it this way, and then again that way, and then again another way Really, deep down, we are – each one of us – everything that there is Doing it this way, and then again that way, and then again another way And that's what it keeps up doing for ever, and ever When you listen to music you hear a melody When you listen to music you hear a melody When you listen to music you hear a melody When you listen to music you hear a melody But what you hear, actually, that makes the melody significant Are the steps between the tones; what we call the intervals And a person who doesn't hear intervals is tone-deaf He only hears noises, he doesn't hear the steps So that interval between whatever happens is As important as what happens So we'll call these two things the sound and the silence The life and the death Somewhat analogous in weaving to the warp and the woof Now look at the marvelous way in which the warp and woof go together A piece of cloth is an extraordinary thing when You consider it's made of a line of string There's something that always struck me as a Child; fabulous, that string – just thread – could turn into cloth Why should it hang together? How improbable