Rael cannot look away from those eyes, mesmerized by his own image. In a quick movement, his consciousness darts from one face to the other, then back again, until his presence is no longer solidly contained in one or the other. In this fluid state he observes both bodies outlined in yellow and the surrounding scenery melting into a purple haze. With a sudden rush of energy up both spinal columns, their bodies, as well, finally dissolve into the haze. All this takes place without a single sunset, without a single bell ringing and without a single blossom falling from the sky. Yet it fills everything with its mysterious intoxicating presence. It’s over to you.
When it’s cold, it comes slow.
it is warm, just watch it grow. —
all around me.
it is here.
it is now.
Just a little bit of it can bring you up or down.
Like the supper it is cooking in your hometown.
it is chicken,
it is eggs,
[The strong egg motif of the last three albums Peter Gabriel did with Genesis is even more interesting when you realize that Peter supplied the lyrics for all three egg songs: Supper’s Ready (“as sure as eggs is eggs”), Aisle Of Plenty (“it’s scrambled eggs”), and of course here.]
itis in between your legs.
it is walking on the moon, leaving your cocoon.
it is the jigsaw.
it is purple haze.
[Yet another song reference: Jimi Hendrix’s “Purple Haze”.]
it never stays in one place,
but it’s not a passing phase,
it is in the single’s bar, in the distance of the face,
it is in between the cages,
it is always in a space it is here.
it is now.
Any rock can be made to roll,
If you’ve enough of it to pay the toll.
it has no home in words or goal,
Not even in your favourite hole.
it is the hope for the dope.
When you ride the horse without a hoof.
it is shaken, not stirred;
Cocktails on the roof.
When you eat right fruit you see everything alive,
it is inside spirit, with enough grit to survive
If you think that it’s pretentious, you’ve been taken for a ride.
[If this line isn’t a commentary on “art rock” and the generally held belief that it was a bunch of pretentious airy-fairy music, it would be surprising.]
Look across the mirror, before you chose de cide it is here.
it is now
it is Real.
it is Rael ‘cos it’s only knock and knowall,
but I like it.