Look Lyrics

The idea is that, you know, you have to be alert when you're suffering

You have to be alert to the beauty in life

The unexpected beauty in life

And that's kind of what I was trying to get across with the idea of the cat

There's this cat that lives across the street from us called Ginger

And Ginger's a Siamese cat

Cat's really aren't domesticated, eh

Technically speaking, they're still a wild animal

But they kind of like people

God only knows why, but they do, you know

And so Ginger will come wandering over

And our dog looks at her, but they're friends

And she rolls over on his back

And Sikko used to, you know, nose her a bit

And then she'd kind of mosey over and let you pet her if she was feeling like it that day

And, you know, you have to look for those little bits of

That little bit of sparkling crystal in the darkness when things are bad

You have to look and see where things are still beautiful

And where there's still something that's sustaining

And, you know, you narrow your time frame

And you be grateful for what you have

And that can get you through some very dark times

And maybe even successfully if you're lucky

But even if unsuccessfully

Then maybe it's only tragic and not absolute hell

And you can do that, you know

In the worst situation, you can make it only tragic and not hell

And there's a big gap between tragedy and hell, you know

There's nothing worse at a death bed than to see the people there fighting

The death is bad enough

But you can take that, as terrible as it is

And make it into something that's absolutely unbearable

And maybe, I think—and this is sort of what I closed the book with—

Is this idea, is that if we didn't all attempt

To make terrible things even worse than they are

Then maybe we could tolerate the terrible things

That we have to put up with in order to exist

And maybe we could make the world into a better place, you know

And it's what we should be doing and what we could be doing

Because we don't have anything better to do