The “Think Tank”

Some of Michael’s Favorite Thoughts, Quotes, and Lyrics …

QUOTES:

“One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.”
- Marie Curie

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
- Mark Twain

"The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord at sweet sounds ... let no such man be trusted."
- William Shakespeare

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." -Mahatma Gandhi

”Maybe this planet is another planet’s hell”
- Aldous Huxley

SOME OF MICHAELS’ LYRICS :

“MYOPIA” (from “Words Collide”)

The Only Way to Seize Today Is Through Tomorrows’ Eyes
As We Contin Our Endless Spin the Spectacles Will Rise

On the Move / But Lacking Action
Distorted Views / Of Strange Refraction
Vision Skewed / That’s Our Distraction
We Turn Away…

Into the “I” of the Storm
A Staring Back / A Blink of Black
A Reason to Conform?
Will Fiction Become the Form?

The Only Chance to Void the Trance Is See the Picture Whole
An Optic Nerve Has Hit a Curve and Spun Out of Control

Vertigo : Our Diagnosis
Status Quo : A Bad Prognosis
Erato : She Hardly Knows Us
We Turn Away…

Into the Lie of the Storm
A Staring Back / A Blink of Black
A Reason to Conform?
The Fiction Becomes the Form

But I See A World of Sound Insights
Not Wrongful Rights and Blind Illusions
Eyes Open To A New Domain
A Level Plain of Truth…

The Only Way to Seize Today Is Through Tomorrows’ Eyes
As We Contin Our Endless Spin The Spectacles Will Rise

Focus Fuzz / A Lightless Prism
False Perspective / Astigmatism
As One Will Fall / Another’s Risen
We Turn Away…

But I See A World of Sound Insights
Not Wrongful Rights and Blind Illusions
Eyes Open To A New Domain
A Level Plain of Truth…

“WORDS COLLIDE”

The Syllables of Truth Are Often in Dispute / The Victims of Despair / And Human Err
The Tempers of the Tongue are Sometimes Too High Strung / And Carry Us Away / Away From There

And When Our Dark Secluded Thoughts
Become A Spoken Albatross
What’s the Cost?

Over Metaphoric Minds
We Long to Get Inside
But Meet Our End When Words Collide

A Flow of Doublespeak Manipulates the Meek / Who Falter to a Screen / A Serpentine
A Lapsus Lingue of Our Communique / As We / We Agree / To Disagree

And When Our Signals Cross
And Then Translation’s Lost / What’s the Cost?

Over Metaphoric Minds
We Long to Get Inside
But Meet Our End When Words Collide

Under Paragraphs of Pride
We Read Between the Lines
But Meet Our End When Words Collide

What Did You Say – What Did I Hear – Cluttering Phrase – Damaging Ear – Why Is It All So Absurd?
Mind After Mind – Snear After Snear – Threatening Line – You Interfere – We Are All Slaves to the Word

The Adjectives We Seek May Seem a Bit Oblique / But Could Improve a Bad / A Bad Technique

And When Our Dark Secluded Thoughts
Become A Spoken Albatross
What’s the Cost?

Under Paragraphs of Pride
We Bleed Between the Lines (Long to Get Inside)
But Meet Our End When Words Collide

Words

"BALANCE OF ONE" (from Thought Chamber, "Angular Perceptions")

And the Inner One He Spoke / Of the Land Where He Awoke
Fighting From Inside to Make His Presence Known
And the Outer One Rebelled / From That Which He Was Shelled
Fighting From Outside to Mask His Enemy 

And When the Twain Shall Meet / A Scuffle on Their Street 
Why Must You Do Everything From Your View?
We Have Split This One In Two 

Choosing a Solution, Conflict Can Be Overturned
Facing Every Moment; Fusing All That We Have Learned
Deep Inside Oblivion / Where the Webs of Truth Are Spun
We Must Uncover the Depths of the Balance of One 

In the Rising Weight of One / The Other Has Begun
To Tip the Scale / Tilting His Domain 

A Parasitic Boast / We Have Destroyed Our Host 
Why Must You Be Everything That’s Not Me?
You Have Heard My Last Decree 

Choosing a Solution, Conflict Can Be Overturned
Facing Every Moment; Fusing All That We Have Learned
Deep Inside Oblivion / Where the Webs of Truth Are Spun
We Must Uncover the Depths of the Balance of One 

And the Outer One He Spoke / From a Land Where He Awoke
Now a Level Plane / Perfect Symmetry 
An Equalizing Blend / And They’ll Not Meet Again 
Now You Must Be Everything That is Me
I Am Glad We Can Agree 

Choosing a Solution, Conflict Can Be Overturned
Facing Every Moment; Fusing All That We Have Learned
Deep Inside Oblivion / Where the Webs of Truth Are Spun
We Must Uncover the Depths of the Balance of One
We Must Uncover the Depths of the Balance of One