Always Hoping - Akira the Don, Alan Watts

There is no hope in time

Everything is gonna get worse in time

Because as you know it does

We all fall apart in the end

Everything falls apart

Institutions, buildings, nations

It all crumbles

And people say, «Well that’s an awfully pessimistic philosophy.»

Well is it?

Well is it?

I would rather say that the people who have hope in the future are the

miserable people

Because they’re like donkeys

Chasing carrots that are dangled before their noses

From sticks attached to their collar

And they pursue

And they pursue in vain

Always hoping

That tomorrow

Will be the great fix

The great fix

The great fix

Always hoping

That tomorrow

Will be the great fix

The great fix

The great fix

And therefore, incapable of enjoying themselves today

People who live for the future

Never get there

Because when their plans mature

They are not there to enjoy them

They’re the sort of people who spent their lives

Saving for their old age

And tried to teach their children to do the same thing

Always hoping

That tomorrow

Will be the great fix

The great fix

The great fix

Always hoping

That tomorrow

Will be the great fix

The great fix

The great fix

And therefore, incapable of enjoying themselves today