To See Is to Believe
Journey Through Dualities: Piers Faccini's Musical Reflection on Life's Contrasts
Lyrics
You just wanted to be light
You desired to embody lightness
To cancel out the shade
To eliminate darkness and make it pay
And let the darkness pay
The darkness owes a debt for the time you've been absent
For the years you've been away
Acknowledging the years of separation from someone significant
From him
The person addressed as 'him'
But now do you see there are two sides
Recognition of the dual nature of situations
Two faces with two lives
Two faces with distinct lives
Opposites that divide
Opposites causing division
You've spent so long denying
Denial has consumed much of your time
You
Referring to the person as 'you'
And now the lifetime that you've spent
The time already spent cannot be relived
Will not be returned to be lived over again
Acknowledging the irreversibility of past experiences
Now you're happy when you're sad
Paradoxical emotions, finding happiness in sadness
And angry when you're glad
Contradictory emotional responses
You're tearing up and crying
Tears shed for a dying life
For the life that's busy dying
Grieving for a life in decline
To be
The life that is fading away
But the knife can't cut the blade
An instrument incapable of harming itself
Nor the sun shine on itself
The sun cannot illuminate itself
It's a gift you could receive
Life is a gift that can be received
To see is to believe
Belief follows sight
To see is to believe
Emphasizing the link between seeing and believing
The lifetime that you've spent
Reiteration of the irreversibility of spent time
Will not be returned to be lived over again
Acknowledgment of the impossibility of reliving the past
Now we all live for what we have left
We live for what time is left
But you could be kind kind to yourself
An urging to be kind to oneself
Kind to yourself
Encouraging self-compassion
The lifetime that you've spent will not be returned
Reiteration of the irreversibility of spent time
To be lived over again and again
Highlighting the inability to revisit the past
Further on further on mother
A call to progress, invoking the concept of motherhood
Furher on further down the line
Continuing the call for progress down the line
Further on further on father
Extending the call for progress, invoking fatherhood
Further on further on time
Further urging progress with time
Further on further on children
Calling for progress, specifically addressing children
Further on further down the line
Continuing the call for progress down the line
Further on further on mother
Repeating the call for progress, invoking motherhood again
It's further on further on time
Emphasizing the continuation of progress over time
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