SOLD TO THE HIGHEST BUDDHA [Verse 1] Science says the Earth goes round Gravity bends and pulls us down Measure the light, divide the wave Name every particle, chart its decay Write it in numbers, carve it in stone Tell me exactly what can be known Then somebody whispers, “I love and I hate” And suddenly truth has more than one shape [Pre-Chorus] If truth is the highest, where does it live? In what can be measured, or what we forgive? [Link] Sell it to the highest Buddha [Chorus] To the highest Buddha, you say it’s your defense To the God of reason, you’re no fool to common sense I can love you, I can leave you I can mean it both at once Sold to the highest Buddha Truth is everything and nothing [Verse 2] I hated my parents for locking me alone in rooms I loved them for trying to give me something more My mother was wrong, my father was right Depending which psychiatrist I listened to Unconsciously unhealthy, Freud’s cigars tasted divine Both can be true at exactly the same time You might prove where I’m located But you can’t measure my heart Simply measuring a fractal isn’t knowing all the parts [Pre-Chorus] The map isn’t the territory Your thoughts are more than words The answer’s in the spaces Where the science becomes absurd [Link] Sell it to the highest Buddha [Chorus] To the highest Buddha, you say it’s your defense To the God of reason, you’re no fool to common sense I can love you, I can leave you I can mean it both at once Sold to the highest Buddha Truth is everything and nothing [Verse 3] Newton forced gravity, Einstein said space bends Quantum questions wait till you observe, and then The sun lights up the heavens, Earth keeps turning round A planet that keeps falling never seems to make a sound Photons explain why magnets attract Gravity waits by the black hole’s paradox And still we say, “Science says,” like priests used to say “The word of God,” then turn our heads and quietly pray [Break] Show me the number Show me the proof Show me the measurement Show me the truth Now show me love Then show me grief Show me the weight Of human belief [Bridge] Perhaps contradiction still fits the paradigm Perhaps two truths can coexist at the same time Perhaps with being human and what we can’t explain Nothing sacred in supernatural light Becomes the kind of factual That makes anybody right [Final Chorus] Sell it to the highest Buddha To the highest Buddha, you say it’s your defense To the God of reason, you’re no fool to common sense I can love you, I can leave you I can mean it both at once Sold to the highest Buddha Truth is everything and nothing [Outro] Sold to the highest Buddha Truth is everything and nothing Sold to the highest Buddha Sold to the question, not the answer Sold to the highest Buddha Truth is not enough [Spoken] Science says, “I don’t know yet.” Maybe that’s the wisest thing we’ve ever said.
