Story Behind The Song

The birth of an idea Where does it come from? Where does it go? What happens with it ?

Song Description

It56 speaks for itself...hold out for the end..tis the best part.

Lyrics

You begin
Idea floats right through your mind
Let it in
Let it spread all through mankind

Starting it could be dangerous
If it doesn't fit
Breaking it could be marvelous
Change the world

There it is
Out of nowhere it appears
Where it is
Is so certainly unclear
Add it up as it leads from that to this
When it's right
Metamorphosis

Starting it could be dangerous
If it doesn't fit
Breaking it could be marvelous
Change the world
Finding it is so obvious
All the lights are lit
Starting it is so beautiful
Change the world

(repeat chorus)

so intangible
believe it's for you
uniquely leaping
into your view

There in the Mind's Eye, the brain scrawls out,
An intricate filigree of diagrammed mechanics.
A wedding of the retinal, emotional and mental,
In a great, impossible machine.
Suddenly it takes life, and lurches into action,
Clanking from cortex to thalamus to stem.
Behind it wafts a phantom - a rumor - a moment,
A perfume - a tone - An idea.

Down through the Mind's Eye it stumbles, falling,
Ring by ring through the auditory cortex,
Ring by ring through the visual cortex,
Down to the riot of the limbic system.
Here, down deep in the cerebellum vermis,
That ancient brain where emotion roils,
Is a hidden place of neural stirrings,
Where consonance and dissonance,
Make men dance, and cry.

Far below the Mind's Eye at the creature's call,
The bachelors assemble for the launch.
They twist the fastenings tighter on the cortical connectors,
And turn by turn they winch the spring for the great synaptic
snap...
Then corticotectal trigger neurons,
Rocketing into chain reaction,
Hurl the crystal casket into flight.
It shatters and the night sky, is brilliant.
Illuminated by a hundred million, radiant butterflies.