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The More You Change, the Less You Feel

The Smashing Pumpkins
Tonight, Tonight

Big Blue Ball album (Peter Gabriel and various artists)

You’re just living out life
On a big blue ball

Karl Wallinger
Big Blue Ball

The moon is out the stars invite
I think I’ll leave tonight

The Smashing Pumpkins
Rocket

To attain this transmutation, this metamorphosis of himself, he is taught first to purify and subdue his sensual nature; then to purify and develop his mental nature; and finally, by utter surrender of his old life and losing his soul to save it, he rises from the dead a Master, a just man made perfect, with larger consciousness and faculties, an efficient instrument for use by the Great Architect in His plan of rebuilding the Temple of fallen humanity, and capable of initiating and advancing other men to a participation in the same great work. 1

W.L. Wilmshurst
The Meaning of Masonry

We are the music makers,
and we are the dreamers of dreams.

Willy Wonka / Arthur O’Shaughnessy

Okay, don’t worry, we’ll all float on,
Even if things get heavy, we’ll all float on

Modest Mouse
Float On

Time is never time at all
You can never ever leave

We cannot leave the Earth 2

Bill Nye

…without leaving a piece of youth
And our lives are forever changed
We will never be the same
The more you change the less you feel

Oh, life is bigger,
It’s bigger than you
and you are not me
The lengths that I will go to
The distance in your eyes
Oh no, I’ve said too much
I set it up

R.E.M.
Losing My Religion

From a distance
the world looks blue and green

Bette Midler
From A Distance

I never believed in things
I couldn’t see
I said if I can’t feel it
then how can it be
No, no magic could happen to me
And then I saw you

America
You Can Do Magic

Believe, believe in me, believe…

From a birds eye view,
I can see it has a
well-rounded personality

Jason Mraz
The World As I See It

(One Hundred Authors Against Einstein)

It’s gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
There’s nothing that a hundred men or
more could ever do

Toto
Africa

Oh, I got a hold on you
I got a hold on you
I got a hold on you tonight

The Cars
Magic

How can we believe the world is round?

Toto
21st Century Blues

Sometimes feel like they’re caught in a landslide
Sometimes everything seems to make no sense at all

Karl Wallinger
Big Blue Ball
Big Blue Ball album (Peter Gabriel and various artists)

Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide,
no escape from reality

Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody

Well, I’ve been afraid of changin’
‘Cause I’ve built my life around you

Fleetwood Mac
Landslide

References:

  1. The Meaning of Masonry
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  2. “Hey Bill Nye, Should We Throw Our Trash Into Space?” | Big Think | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjWGVrmuz74
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Tonight, Tonight (Official Video)

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