[Verse] [Lead] Feeling and ideas spill over the brim, Reality and dreams twist into one; Get me out, get me out of here. [Chorus] [Lead] Ambivalence! [Choir] Existence on trial! [Lead] Why must it be so absurd? [Choir] Paradox! [Lead] God did not create humankind, [Choir] No, not humankind! [Lead] From the highest thought above all things, Could lower thoughts be made at all? [Choir] Impossible, impossible! [Verse 2] [Lead] Proof and instinct never quite agree, Round and round a sealed world turns; How far, how far can we go? [Chorus 2] [Lead] Ambivalence! [Choir] Self-reference! [Lead] Days tangled up in contradiction, [Choir] Paradox! [Lead] God cannot define the passage of time, [Choir] Not even time! [Lead] At the edge of an endless sequence, Finite minds decide what now might mean. [Choir] Just for now, just for now! [Verse 3] [Lead] Weighing pleasure against pain, Cutting life to plus and minus signs, Why does what remains still pierce the heart? [Chorus 3] [Lead] Ambivalence! [Choir] A choice with no answer! [Lead] There is no single winning way, [Choir] Paradox! [Lead] God cannot throw the dice, [Choir] Cannot choose! [Lead] Only watches waves of chance roll by, And calls the tremble before they settle [Choir] Beauty, beauty! [Verse 4] [Lead] Frozen halfway through the calculation, Happiness filed neatly in a book Never turns to something we can run. [Chorus 4] [Lead] Ambivalence! [Choir] The theorem of being! [Lead] Still beyond a proof, [Choir] Paradox! [Lead] God cannot choose the axioms, [Choir] Which ones, which ones? [Lead] Between consistency and completeness, Even choosing what to leave behind [Choir] Cannot be decided! [Verse 5] [Lead] Dreams and resignation cross at night; One and zero cannot say it all, So I sink through shades that have no name. [Chorus 5] [Lead] Ambivalence! [Choir] Boundary conditions! [Lead] In between the inside and the out, [Choir] Paradox! [Lead] God cannot strip away the noise, [Choir] Not all the noise! [Lead] Where the signal meets the uncertain, Hold the trembling close against your heart, [Choir] Then choose silence. [Verse 6] [Lead] Looking from the lonely to the crowd, Either road leaves questions in my hands; I keep walking branches with no answer. [Chorus 6] [Lead] Ambivalence! [Choir] One and many! [Lead] Set against set, the numbers sway, [Choir] Paradox! [Lead] God has no count of elements, [Choir] No number, no number! [Lead] With the empty set's quiet gaze, Even all the crowded universe [Choir] Is only approximated. [Bridge] [Lead] Ah... [Choir] Ah... [Lead] A lie that tells the truth, [Choir] We can't cast it away. [Lead] A sin that holds you gently, [Choir] We can't cast it away. [Lead] Still we carry both of them. [Choir] Still we carry both. [Chorus 7] [Lead] Ambivalence! [Choir] A riddle of being! [Lead] Holding questions with no key, [Choir] Paradox! [Lead] God cannot give it a name, [Choir] Not yet, not yet! [Lead] In the tremble before definition, Listening for the voice that has not [Choir] Turned to words. [Lead] Still listening, [Choir] Still listening. [Outro Chorus] [Lead] Ambivalence! [Choir] Existence on trial! [Lead] Why must it be so absurd? [Choir] Paradox! [Lead] God did not create humankind, [Choir] No, not humankind! [Lead] From the highest thought above all things, Could lower thoughts be made at all? [Choir] Impossible, impossible! [All] Impossible, impossible!
