For Whatever That Means… – Stationary Reality

4 Non Blondes – What’s Up?

A new world is over me
So I’ll reach UP to the sky
And pretend that I’m a
Spaceman

4 Non Blondes
Spaceman

Twenty-five years and my life is still
Trying to get up that great big hill of hope
For a destination

You don’t mean nothing
if you don’t do nothing
You’re just waiting at the
bottom of the hill
You don’t mean nothing
if you don’t do nothing
You’re just standing still

Ringo Starr
Standing Still

I realized quickly when I knew I should
That the world was made up
of this brotherhood of man
For whatever that means…

Now take it in but don’t look down

Imagine Dragons
On Top Of The World

“Whats UP?“

It all will fall,
fall right into place

Modest Mouse
Gravity Rides Everything

But that’s what makes the
world go round
The ups and downs a carousel
Changing people’s heads around

The Stylistics
People Make the World Go Round

Her green plastic watering can
For her fake Chinese rubber plant
In the fake plastic earth

Radiohead
Fake Plastic Trees

My fake plants died
because I did not pretend to water them.

Mitch Hedberg

If you, the reader of these lines,
personally use the words up and down,
you, too, are as yet imprisoned
in the Dark Ages.

There are no parallels on the surface of the Earth;
what may appear to be parallel radiates from the center of the Earth.

There is no up and down in Universe; in, out, and around exist. ²

Buckminster Fuller

You make the change
You rearrange me till I’m sane
You lock the door
And throw away the key
And there’s someone in my head
but it’s not me

Pink Floyd
Brain Damage

Up and down
And in the end it’s only
round ‘n round

Pink Floyd
Us and Them

It’s about being prepared to lose
what you have for what you might get,
or what you are for what you might be.
It’s about letting go. ³

Peter Gabriel

No longer ridin’ on the
merry-go-round
I just had to let it go

John Lennon
Watching the Wheels

Yeah, the world would swing
if I were king

Tom Petty
It’s Good to be King

So when will this end?
It goes on and on
Over and over and over again
Keep spinning around,
I know that it won’t stop
Until I step down from this for good

Lifehouse
Sick Cycle Carousel

Back to the earth, I feel it.

Rusted Root
Back to the Earth

The truth is never far behind
You’ve kept it hidden well

Madonna
Live to Tell

Notes & References:

Wayward Pines

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Cosmography : A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity by Buckminster Fuller

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Without Frontiers: The Life & Music of Peter Gabriel By Daryl Easlea

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Songs:

4 Non Blondes – Spaceman
Ringo Starr – Standing Still
Imagine Dragons – On Top Of The World
Modest Mouse – Gravity Rides Everything
The Stylistics – People Make the World Go Round
Radiohead – Fake Plastic Trees
Pink Floyd – Brain Damage
Pink Floyd – Us and Them
John Lennon – Watching the Wheels
Tom Petty – It’s Good to be King
Lifehouse – Sick Cycle Carousel
Rusted Root – Back to the Earth
Madonna – Live to Tell

4 Non Blondes – What’s Up (Official Music Video)

Hope I live to tell the secret
I have learned
till then, it will burn inside of me

Madonna
Live to Tell