From the recording RUMINATIONS
Lyrics
When you decide, a timeline will divide
Can’t you feel it?
The choice you didn’t make another you lives that today
Can’t you feel it?
There’s a world for every choice
Can’t you see it?
Every wave another voice
Can’t you hear it
A quantum event occurs
And the observer effectively splits
Into different versions of themselves
It’s science!
Each possibility is now a probability
Can’t you feel it?
The life you want to lead and every lost intimacy
And every choice you make to stay or choose to leave
There’s a world where we’re happy again
Running free in the quantum fields
Many worlds where we’re lovers and friends
It can be this world
If we want this world
It’s a brave new world
We can choose this world
Or collapse…the wave function once and for all
The cat is fine or dead
Until observed he’s both instead
He’s like that note before it’s read
Left on the pillow by your head
‘Til you read it
The cat is still alive
Until observed he will survive
He’s like that text that’s not arrived
Just bouncing dots that will decide
Will she send it?
A paralleling universe
Can soothe the pain when ours gets worse
It’s called decoherence, look it up
There’s a world where we’re happy again
Running free in the quantum fields
Many worlds where we’re lovers and friends
It can be this world
If we want this world
It’s a brave new world
We can choose this world
Or collapse…the wave function once and for all
I mean we’re done, right?
We’re not getting back together
Or are we?
After what you did?
I don’t think so
Right…
But on the other hand, it IS science
There’s a world for every life
Can’t you feel it?
A world whatever you decide
Can’t you feel it?
A paralleling universe
Multiplying worlds of hurt
We chose in one
A split occurs
Lives divide
Then one get worse
So choose another way
Choose another day
Stay another night
Try to make it right
Choose me instead of him…
Not him instead of me…
You chose her instead of us…
Wait, what?
Just how many worlds are there?
Wave functions collapse!
Wave functions collapse!
Wave functions collapse!
So say goodbye, say goodbye
There’s a world for every life
But I can’t feel it!
A world whatever you decide
I can’t feel it!
I can’t feel it!
This is terrible
This can’t be right
Professor, check those calculations again, please
There’s a world where we’re happy again
Running free in the quantum fields
Many worlds where we’re lovers and friends
Running free in the quantum fields
There’s a world where we try it again
Running free in the quantum fields
But the waveform’s collapsed and now we’ll never get back
It must be this world
It’s the only world
Didn’t choose this world
It’s a fucked up world
And that’s all
Or is it?
What does science tell us about the nature of the universe?
And what further mysteries might it bring?
What new discoveries await?