Thousand Words - Waking Life: Dreamers lyrics

(Protagonist walking along railroad tracks, joined by a man that jumps out of a train) "Hey." "Hey." "You a dreamer?" "Yeah." "Haven't seen too many around lately. Things have been tough lately for dreamers. They say dreaming's dead, that no one does it anymore. It's not dead; it's just been forgotten; removed from our language. No one teaches it so no one knows it exists. The dreamer is banished to obscurity. Well, I'm trying to change all that, and I hope you are too. By dreaming every day. Dreaming with our hands and dreaming with our minds. Our planet is facing the greatest problems it's ever faced—ever. So whatever you do, don't be bored. This is absolutely the most exciting time we could have possibly hoped to be alive, and things are just starting." (Protagonist walking with somebody) "A thousand years is but an instant. There's nothing new, nothing different. The same pattern over and over. The same clouds, the same music, the same insight I felt an hour or an eternity ago. There's nothing here for me now, nothing at all. Now I remember. This happened to me before. This is why I left. You have begun to find your answers. Although it will seem difficult, the rewards will be great. Exercise your human mind as fully as possible, knowing it is only an exercise. Build beautiful artifacts, solve problems, explore the secrets of the physical universe, savor the input from all the senses, feel the joy and sorrow, the laughter, the empathy, compa**ion, and tote the emotional memory in your travel bag. I remember where I came from; and how I became a human; why I hung around; and now my final departure is scheduled. This way out. Escaping velocity. Not just eternity, but infinity."