There Will Be Noise

You know the old question "If a tree crashes in a forest And there is nobody around to hear it Is there a noise?" This question has been discussed in many futile ways But noise, basically is a state of affairs That requires an eardrum and an audio nervous system Behind the eardrum When the tree falls, it makes the air vibrate If there is anywhere around an ear With the appropriate nervous system There will be a noise Because noise is a relationship Between motion in the air and ears If there is not any ear around There won't be any noise although There will be vibration in the air And if there is some instrument around Such as a microphone attached to a tape recorder There will be noise There will be a vibration There will be light In the darkness In the same way Let's suppose the sun sends out light into space Now, the space surrounding the sun Will be black darkness As if there were no light in it Unless a planet happens to float by When a planet floats by, there will be light In the darkness But if there isn't anything to relate to the sun In that way Then comes no light Now this goes right down To the root and ground of everything It goes down to the essence of your nerves Of your whole being That it's all an interdependence There will be noise There will be a vibration There will be light In the darkness There will be noise There will be a vibration There will be light In the darkness And that's why one of the basic symbols of the universe Is the Chinese yin-yang symbol Which, you know, is a circle with an S-curve in the center One side of the S is black, the other is white So it makes, as it were, two commas, or two fishes And the eye of the fish is the opposite color The white fish has a black eye The black fish has a white eye Curling in on each other Now, this thing is called a helix And that is the fundamental form of the galaxies The great nebulae we see out in space And this is, basically, too The position of sexual intercourse This is lovemaking And this is, you know When you hold hands, and so on This is it This is it There will be noise There will be a vibration There will be light In the darkness There will be noise There will be a vibration There will be light In the darkness But there are two involved And the two are secretly one