[VERSE 1 — Voice 1: Skinner] I'll grant you the feelings, I won't say they're fake But feelings don't pull you, they follow in the wake The pigeon, the gambler, the student, the sage All dancing to schedules they can't see on the page The inner man vanished when science arrived What's left is a history — and look how you've thrived [CHORUS — Both] We're standing at the edge of what we think we know One eye on the outside, one on the undertow You say that you're free and I say you're designed And somewhere between us lives the whole human mind Somewhere between us lives the whole human mind [VERSE 2 — Voice 2: Rogers] I've sat with the person who pulled himself in Made blank by the world and its pressure to win And when the truth landed he laughed till he shook Not because someone told him — because finally he looked You can map all the causes, the schedule, the cue But who is the one who's discovering who? [CHORUS — Both] We're standing at the edge of what we think we know One eye on the outside, one on the undertow You say that you're free and I say you're designed And somewhere between us lives the whole human mind Somewhere between us lives the whole human mind [VERSE 3 — Voice 1: Skinner] I designed Walden Two and I'll own what I did Drew back the curtain on what culture keeps hid Every value you're holding was shaped by the past Every god that you worship was built here to last I'm not taking your freedom, I'm naming the hand That was always already right there where you stand [CHORUS — Both] We're standing at the edge of what we think we know One eye on the outside, one on the undertow You say that you're free and I say you're designed And somewhere between us lives the whole human mind Somewhere between us lives the whole human mind [VERSE 4 — Voice 2: Rogers] The freedom I'm naming's not outside the law It's Frankl in the camp with his back to the wall Choosing his attitude when nothing was left That's not just a schedule, that's something bereft Of any clean ledger of cause and result The person is present — and that's not occult [CHORUS — Both] We're standing at the edge of what we think we know One eye on the outside, one on the undertow You say that you're free and I say you're designed And somewhere between us lives the whole human mind Somewhere between us lives the whole human mind [VERSE 5 — Voice 1: Skinner] I live an emotional life, I'll confess I notice my angers, my joys, my distress But what interests me isn't the color or flame It's the action I'm leaning toward — that's the real game Dispose me to harm you and call it by name The feeling's the shadow, the behavior the claim [VERSE 6 — Voice 2: Rogers] And yet when you told us of science as process Of following hunches through failure and darkness You weren't running schedules, you were becoming That lurching-toward-truth with no map and no mooring Right there in that story you lived what I mean — The self in the making, the space in between [FINAL CHORUS — Both, slower] We're standing at the edge of what we think we know One eye on the outside, one on the undertow Maybe free and designed are both partially right Two poles of one polarity held in the light Two poles of one polarity — held in the light
