Dr. Awkward - Allegory (Plato's Cave) lyrics

[Prologue] This is a song that I wrote, though the credit for this song and the words in it belong to a man far greater than me. Nearly twenty-four hundred years ago today, a philosopher named Plato wrote an allegory of what it meant to be a human being and how we view this world. It's a beautiful work and I have the immense honor of giving it to you, in musical form [verse 1] Can we imagine that we are bound at the neck and legs In a matter that we can't seem to move our heads Sitting shackled and ensnared on a cave floor And behind us lies some form of light source But we're stuck staring blankly at the cave wall Angled perfectly to see where that light falls And that's the biggest past, these shadows are cast and our minds have to try and decipher what our eyes saw This is our only known reality The world's small with the prisoner's mentality We struggle to make sense of the specters So naive, we let our ignorance protect us But everything we've seen is a lie At least this skewed version of the truth And if we just opened up our eyes, then Maybe we can search for the truth [Chorus x2] I've seen something new The greens and the blues I've opened my eyes, and I've seen the truth And I've learned of life And I've learned to feel And closing your eyes doesn't make it less real [verse 2] Now lets imagine that we're set free But all the other prisoners are let be And when we finally turn our heads and we see the light It's overwhelming and we can't see to use our eyes But over time our sight adjusts and refocused See this cave as we never would have noticed And the world that we've known since our early youth Are simply just shadows of a bigger truth Now suppose that we are carried all the way out Far from the prison and the darkness of the cave's mouth We take it in and we wonder what it all means Don't have the words for the world that's gone unseen Come to know that this place is the only truth and that everything before was a foolish lie And that the sun is the only proof of the prisoners we left behind [Chorus x2] I've seen something new The greens and the blues I've opened my eyes, and I've seen the truth And I've learned of life And I've learned to feel And closing your eyes doesn't make it less real [epilogue] Once a man obtains true enlightenment, he will be viewed as an outsider by those he once considered peers, for they cannot comprehend the world he explains, but it is the duty and the responsibility of every enlightened man to bring those people in the dark out to the world he has seen