Space is illusion
Time is illusion
We are illusion
Only chaos is real
Only chaos is real

In the womb of the perfect night
Comes the dawning of the light
And the band begins to play
Dancing the dark away
Shadows in the cave
Ride the curl of the quantum wave
Surfing the interface
Of mind and time and space

Matter is illusion
Energy is illusion
We are illusion
Only chaos is real
Only chaos is real

And the music moves through the spheres
And the walls of the worlds grow ears
And down from the trees we come
To the beat of the talking drum
And the talking in our brain
Becomes a runaway train

Space is illusion
Time is illusion
We are illusion
Only chaos is real
Only chaos is real

To the garden of earthly delights
To the abyss of nuclear frights
To become Venus, to become Mars
To the void and to the stars
Shiva in world-breaking wrath
Buddha of the nine-fold path
For better and for worse
Masters of the universe

The only gods there be
Are schmucks like you and me
Whistling Dixie in the dark
So cruel, so cold, so stark

Only chaos is real
Only chaos is real
And the face on the bar-room floor
Was always there before
Was born with a great Big Bang
As the song that the atoms sang
From the cradle to the grave
In the foam of the quantum wave....

Matter is illusion
Energy is illusion
We are illusion
Only chaos is real
Only chaos is real

Only chaos is real
Only chaos is real

Only chaos is real
Only chaos is real

Only chaos is real
Only chaos is real


Heldon e Norman Spinrad