Head in the Cloud

[Verse: Gripp]
At a quantum level, researchers use models to trace
Electron clouds around nuclei, their probable states
It's not something they cobble and scrape together. This is verified:
Particles exist in many states at every time
It messed me up when it sunk in as fact
Made me feel fucking detached, a lump in the grass
Picturing Schrodinger's cat or something like that
How could we just be expressions of wave function collapse?
And just as it's past is when the change occurs and we go
From quantum states to the deterministic world that we know
Where cause and effect are all that are left and we're just part of the game
Caught in the mess of this arduous chain
Each separate lobe of our brain has a different sphere of control
Their neuronal exchange defines the roles that they play
They're subject to the same physical laws; we're all afflicted
So in principle, at least, behavior can be predicted
But that would require an incredible step
The kind of perfect knowledge that we probably never will get
So, see, our minds are emergent and the agency we assign to a person
Is polite fiction, a lie, it's self-serving
So absurd, but it's working. So we take it and run
And make choices like it's something that we're capable of
But my philosophy as a humanist is: do what you do, exist
Pleasure is ours to pursue, a gift, so just don't ruin it
The future is at our fingers; we can't let it slip through the tips
In the end the truth will win, so move forward don't lose an inch
Yeah. I'll just stay here and write
About physics, philosophy, and the nature of life
And at times I'm a pessimist, yes just a little depressed
But I choose to use art to cope with the metaphysical stress
So with my shell-toe Adidas and my backpack on
I stomp a trail of pissed-off lovers and half-assed songs
My only hope is that some will identify with my growth
And it'll aid them on the road while they're finding their own
Fired inside of your home where the wires are run
Whichever site you choose to buy or pirate it from
So commanding is the peak that humanity's reached
Creating all these new venues for so many to speak
So from the moment of conception to the moment it moves the crowd
My rhymes span from electrons up to computing clouds