Metamorphosis lyrics: Are You Experienced?

And like the first glimmer of dawn, upsetting the balance of utter blackness it was over. It was as if light beams had finally struck the ocean floor and I had somehow been redeemed. The Metamorphosis had been complete. All the fear, all the dread, and all the anxiety had been allowed to pass over and only this remained...

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Let me ask you Love, you've ever been experienced?
Have you ever experienced bliss?
Don't take my opinion as the divine within...

All in an instant, it-can-switch
From one frozen hell
To one moment of glory
Outside our broken shells.

Like a touch of the skin being felt...
It's real.

Now you and I have ridden the highs and lows,
Like the ocean tide, we keep to an ebb and the flow,
And I know it seems hopeless,
The constant ups and downs,
Life demanding of us, that we keep encircling round,
When you take it as it is, and we start losing our ground,
Put on the mask, do our thing, and put our dreams on the shelf.
...it's just a frozen hell,
With icicles on these hearts because the world's not well.

And I hate to see the world's sad look in your eyes,
It's not fair,
We both know that you try.
And that's why I'm sending this,
It's been a blessing to me,
Imagine being free like you can't teach a child to be.
Imagine seeing another way out -I know it exists,
Everything can change in a glimpse.

In you, I see an innocence I want to protect,
So when your spirit is weary you've got a friend,
'Cuz it's madness and we all pretend,
As we go about baking our bread,
Hoping the unsaid somewhere has been said,
It's like we've got full stomachs but we're still feeling unfed.
And suspicions arise about the way we've been led.

And baby I really believe that this is the medicine,
When I let it summon something inside, something "clicks".

That if you think what you've always thought,
You'll do what you've always done,
You'll see what you've always seen,
And then you'll feel what you've always felt,
And live how you've always lived,
...and that's it.

Just doing this different can change all of it,
And like an umbilical trail we can follow it Home.

(chorus 1:51)

So let me ask you baby, you've ever been experienced?
Have you ever experienced bliss?
Don't take my opinion as the divine within...

Let me ask you Love, you've ever been experienced?
Have you ever experienced bliss?
Don't take my opinion as the divine within...

(2:11)

It's like everywhere we go people are always trying to sell us a cure,
After which we reach for our wallets,
For someone behind the curtain,
And then again we're in line,
In the end, the only thing we know is something ain't right.

Because everyone is full of secrets from the lawyer to the priest,
From the doctors to the bankers,
Of those on top to us underneath,
And so we figure someone up there knows something,
'Cuz we're smart enough to know that we don't,
We keep trusting,
That it's all in control, so we can go about selling our souls,
But who are we not to know, my Love?

I see a luminous soul,
I see the wisdom of the planet,
In the woman you show,
With the power to command the wind that blows,
With real divine brilliance, but then dismissed
And shrugged off as ridiculous.

I see an innocence choked with layers of linen,
Laid on top of one other from the world and its hints,
And though well-meaning they carry the weight of cement bricks,
When in the end, being truly naked again is the best fit.
'Cuz when you're naked you can feel the world as it is,
With open arms surrendering all defensive grips.

Like I can see you right now, the way it was as kids,
For when the veils are lifted, we see the way we once did.
And if you saw what I see you would know it exists,
'Cuz everything can change in a glimpse...

(chorus)

So let me ask you Love, you've ever been experienced?
Have you ever experienced bliss?
Don't take my opinion as the divine within.

Let me ask you baby, you've ever been experienced?
Have you ever experienced bliss?
Don't take my opinion as the divine within...
See for yourself.