Tim Janakos (ティム・ジャナコス): Music 音楽

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Timothy wrote this song to his friends in the US, hoping he would wake people up.

Of course, the words in the song are ideas from different parables in the Lotus Sutra.

In one parable, the historical Buddha of India compares the world to a burning house. The kids in the house are so busy playing that they don't realize they have set their house on fire. Their father tries to lure them out of the house by promising them ox and horse drawn carts that they can ride outside.

Is our house (the world) burning now?
Are we too busy playing with our toys to realize we are burning down our house?

Wake Up

Can’t you see the tongue of flames,
licking through your walls?
They taste your morbid naivete,
and surround you as you fall

The Hungry spirits
wait behind the door; unknowingly you play.
Your father pleads
the games are over;
your house has seen it’s final day.

Wake up
the house is burning;
can you not smell the smoke?
So fast the world is turning;
it blankets you in it’s ashened cloak.

In a drunken stupor
you run about,
not heeding your father’s cries.
Using his expedient means, he lures you with lies.

And all your games
have caused the flames; your mischief never ends.
You can’t distinguish
from the poison,
your father’s purist medicine.