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Existential Dilemma

from The Gate by Candy Lee

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Existential Dilemma is a song about questions dealing with the nature of reality. Life is a great mystery with no inherent meaning. We are the ones who make the meaning. Everything we know is based on human agreements, from theories of science, to objects, to language, to letters. There is no letter "L" that exists "out there" somewhere. It was something thought of by man to describe a sound we can utilize in order to communicate. We can only describe the objective from a subjective perspective and relative terms, but this does not mean that there are no facts or truths in the material world. If we hold a rock and say it does not exist, it still exists. Therefore, it is important to have a good epistomology based on logic. In Existential Dilemma, I am not trying to discredit the natural material world, I am simply exploring interesting concepts that have crossed my mind when dealing with reality.

When it comes to the big Truth, Neitzsche sums it up beautifully, "What then is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms -- in short, a sum of human relations, which have been enhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically, and which after long use seem firm, canonical, and obligatory to a people: truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that is what they are; metaphors which are worn out and without sensuous power; coins which have lost their pictures and now matter only as metal, no longer as coins.
We still do not know where the urge for truth comes from; for as yet we have heard only of the obligation imposed by society that it should exist: to be truthful means using the customary metaphors - in moral terms, the obligation to lie according to fixed convention, to lie herd-like in a style obligatory for all..."

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Lyrics:

What makes this reality
Any different from a dream?
Well, maybe the truth is
That things aren’t always what they seem.
Is what I’m seeing really there
Or just a chemical reaction in my brain?
‘Cause when I dream I see things too
And I can swear that I can even feel pain.

Oh is this world more real
Because it’s more consistent
With universal norms like time and gravity?
I guess the question is, can I exist without it?
Can it exist without me?

The body is a suit of senses that relays
Outside information to the brain
How can I trust it to tell me what is true
When I know that other creatures
Can see and hear and feel more than I do?

Oh is this world so real
Because it’s so consistent
With hearing, sight, and touch
Smell, and taste?
I wonder what’s out there
That I’m not picking up on.
And does it matter any way?

It’s so crazy how
We’re all connected
But we don’t know how.

Where do I stop?
Where does the universe begin?
I cannot clearly tell the difference.
I cannot feel the cells in side my body I,
I cannot feel the moon revolve around me.
Or maybe I can
In ways that I don’t understand.

What make this reality? What is reality?

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from The Gate, released August 26, 2010
Dan Dean- djembe

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Candy Lee Fayetteville, Arkansas

Candy Lee is an award winning, "golden voiced" singer/songwriter who combines her love for folk, jazz, and indie music to create her own original style. The first thing you'll notice when you hear Candy Lee is her voice- timeless, entrancing, and ethereal. She Lee pulls you in with her sweet, catchy melodies and moving music, but it is her smart, creative lyrics that deserve a second listen. ... more

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