VERSE 1
Reach out now, embrace the ether
Give yourself to random chance
Play the odds with God's own dice
Admit your life is happenstance

Forget the search for certain truth
You know how little can be known
Dawn's last dream seems so real
Hold your breath and roll your bones

CHORUS
Don't even show me the workings of the world
If the source of all our fears
Is just a meshing of the gears
We'll never know what all of this can mean
Cuz there's no guiding principle
To this improbable machine

VERSE 2
You show the strength of false conviction
You know you haven't got a choice
Pretense fades in shades of doubt
Give your asking heart a voice

Be stirred to action by the right
Regardless of the cause
Cuz there's so little time to act
And never time enough to pause

CHORUS
No mind the workings of the world
When the source of all our tears
Is a simple meshing of the gears
We'll never know what all of this can mean
Cuz there's no guiding principle
To this improbable machine

BRIDGE
Questions follow answers
The sequence has been set
Today we know what we must be
Tomorrow we forget
Look forward if you like
The future's always now
You see whatever you want to see
Like pictures in a cloud

CHORUS
No need to show me the workings of the world
When the source of all our fears
Is just a meshing of the gears
We'll never know
Who cares to know what all of this means
Cuz there's no guiding principle (except faith)
In this improbable machine


There's no guiding principle (except faith)
In this improbable machine

set to music at Best Cellar