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The Meaning Lyrics by William Shatner

So Fragile, So Blue

2024

It was a scientific mission
But not to outer space
A documentary tv show
The earth’s decline to trace
From melting polar ice caps
To soil scorched by the sun
The theme was grim and simple
Trace the damage that we’d done
The purpose wasn’t hopeless
We all held the belief
That scientific knowledge
Could provide relief
So we crossed polluted oceans
Followed geo tracks
Measuring and filming
All the flaws and cracks
I was searching for
The meaning
A proof of greater plans
Some elevated vision
Beyond the reach of man
Searching for the meaning
Before it was too late
To save myself or anyone
From cruel or random fate
Eventually we trekked
Where many came to seek
The very highest highs
The Himalayan peaks
Everest like a god
Stood challenging and cold
But my journey took a different turn
Toward the center of the soul
Among the craggy hills
Forged from weathered wood
Ancient and majestic
A monastery stood
A thousand tiny rooms
The dimensions all the same
The walls scarred
Black with carbon
From a million candle flames
And there devoted monks
Of every age on end
Would mediate both day and night
Hoping to transcend
We had come with science
Technology in hand
They used only spirit
In the attempt to understand
Transfixed by the chanting
Their holy mission clear
I longed to join the monks
To have meaning appear
I was searching for
The meaning
A proof of greater plans
Some elevated vision
Beyond the reach of man
Searching for the meaning
Before it was too late
To save myself or anyone
From cruel or random fate
The film crew kept their pace
And we watched the sad parade
Of endless climbers from the west
Trails of litter that they made
At night we slept in tents
Yet my thoughts were drawn afar
So I took my sleeping bag outside
And lay under the stars
I wanted to be closer
To some celestial dance
Or the spiritual vibrations
That kept the monks entranced
Seven nights I slept there
Staring at the sky
No animals disturbed my peace
For none could live that high
I listened to the wind
Searching for a clue
And tried to hear a message
That never did come through
I opened up my soul
But every night the same
I woke up in frustration
Because nothing ever came
I was searching for
The meaning
A proof of greater plans
Some elevated vision
Beyond the reach of man
Searching for the meaning
Before it was too late
To save myself or anyone
From cruel or random fate
On the final morning
I still had found no peace
So I packed up my belongings
To head back down the crease
But by a twist of fate
It landed in my hand
Falling off my backpack
Some simple grains of sand
It struck me dumb with wonder
Like sun after the rain
I saw the entire universe
In each and every grain
Yes each grain was a diamond
Unique, precious, and rare
And countless years and miracles
Conspired to bring them there
The wholeness of the planet
Like a flash it came
We all were grains of sand
All different, yet the same
Yes every human soul
Every atom that persists
Bound up in the journey
The journey to exist
There was no separation
There were no prison walls
The meaning of the meaning
Lived inside it all
I didn’t need a mantra
Or set of magic prayers
I just needed open eyes
To notice what was there
Holy are the mountains
Holy is the sand
Holy are the human beings
Trying to understand
Holy are the whispers
Holy are the screams
Holy are the nightmares
Holy are the dreams
Holy is the seedcake
Holy is the rot
Holy are the written words
Holy those forgot
Holy is the order
Holy is the mess
Holy are the modest ones
Holy the undressed
Holy is the garbage
Holy is the gold
Holy are the infants
Holy are the old
Holy is the poverty
Holy is the wealth
Holy are the unions
Holy is the self
Holy are the unions
Holy is the self
Holy are the unions
Holy is the self
Credits
William Shatner

William Shatner

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