The Way It Is
Bruce Hornsby & The Range
4:58Time stopped And I'm floating there on air I can watch myself, my head is elsewhere I'm suspended, suspended in mid-air But surprise, surprise I'm still here, so there Cognition is a billion years ago somewhere Let's slip out of this life we know, into some timeless repose Hey, come on, let's go Down to two seventy-three below Let's go sliding down the scale Way down, down beyond the veil I'll be feeling fine at absolute zero Memory, identity, on another self-plane And you will be sustained with cryo-preservatives Robotize, enzymes, nucleotides, in time Vitrification Brain-edit, you will get it, if you let it frozen Hey, come on, let's go Down to two seventy-three below Let's go sliding down the scale Way down, down beyond the veil Time re-starts Another chance, it maybe better next time We'll be minus a hundred and ten Maybe that'll do just fine Low temps, slow metabolism down and then We will stop the gradual slide For centuries end on end Frozen to solid For a hundred years and then emerge You will re-encounter yourself Oh, what a lovely fantasy turn Hey, come on, let's go Down to two seventy-three below Let's go sliding down the scale Way down, down beyond the veil