Listen Kids! Akira The Don & Alan Watts (Ft. Alan Watts)

So, what I'm saying is, I think this
I'm trying to share with you a certain style of life and an attitude to life and an insight
I've taken you on one side and said

[Chorus]
Listen kids, things aren't what they seem, don't be fooled
Listen kids, things aren't what they seem, don't be fooled
Listen kids, things aren't what they seem, don't be fooled
There's a big deception going on, and you're involved in it
But I just thought you ought to know it

I'm terribly puzzled about the way people go out of their way to dis-enjoy themselves
It take so much trouble about it
And all around you have only to look, you see this perfect passion
For making the world look grizzly
And it isn't only shop builders and garage owners who do this kind of thing
It's also people who profess to be painters, they're actually using excrements for painting in Paris, today
On the theory that the world is shot to pieces, and that since the artist is a representative of his times, he ought to show the times as they really are, as a social critic
So, he makes the most weird, he paints Campbell's soup cans, and he makes music that shrieks and screams
He just goes out of his way to make it sound as ugly as he possibly can manage
And the ingenuity's about that is endless, because that is the times, he is the critic you see?

[Chorus]
Listen kids, things aren't what they seem, don't be fooled
Listen kids, things aren't what they seem, don't be fooled
Listen kids, things aren't what they seem, don't be fooled
There's a big deception going on, and you're involved in it
But I just thought you ought to know it