The Hicks Theory

This is a song that we started working on last night. The title is tentative, but it has meaning to the song. The Hicks it's referring too is the one and only, Bill Hicks.

He has this great thing that he used to end his shows with. It is as follows (as found off wikipedia, because it's too damn long for me to remeber in full in my current state of mind.

The world is like a ride at an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it, you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they begin to question: Is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, "Hey – don't worry, don't be afraid ever, because this is just a ride." And we … kill those people. "Shut him up. We have a lot invested in this ride. Shut him up. Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account and my family. This just has to be real." It's just a ride. But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok. Jesus murdered; Martin Luther King murdered; Malcolm X murdered; Gandhi murdered; John Lennon murdered; Reagan.... wounded. But it doesn't matter, because – it's just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.

I pulled your eyes to the first part, because that's the part that really hits me. i do agree with everything else, but there is one thing I believe, and that is:

We have the power to control how we live, our emotions, our lives, jsut by how we thing about the situations that we think are controlling us.

Stated more simply, how you view life, be it a depressing vile existance, or one of joy and pleasure, is all a matter of how you think.

And in some roundabout way, that's where these lyrics came from.

P.S. Apparently dA doesn't think a song can be philisophical :rolls eyes: