Yes to the Serpent

These stories of mythology
Are simply trying to express
A truth that can't be
Grasped any other way

(Well, I'll be damned)

It's the edge
The interface
Between what can be known
And what is never to be discovered
Because it is the mystery transcendent
Of all human research
The source of life
What, what is it?
No one knows
It's important to live life
With a knowledge of its mystery
And of your own mystery
And it gives life a, uh, a new vest
A new balance
A new harmony
To do this
What is it that life is?
I find thinking in mythological terms
Has helped people physically
It, it erases anxieties
Puts them in accord with
The inevitables of their life
And they can see
The positive values
Of what are negative aspects
Of what is positive

[Chorus]
It's whether you're going to say
No to the serpent
Or yes to the serpent
As easy as that
No to the serpent
Or yes to the serpent
The adventure of being alive, of living
It's whether you're going to say
No to the serpent
Yes, yes to the serpent
As easy as that
No, no to the serpent
Yes, yes to the serpent
The adventure of being alive, of living

Dragons represent greed, really
The European dragon guards things in his cave
And what he guards
Are heaps of gold and virgins
And he can't make use of either of them
But he just guards
There's no vitality of experience
Either of the value of the gold
Or of the female whom he's guarding there
Psychologically
The dragon is one's own binding of oneself
To one's ego
And you're captured in your own dragon cave
The problem of the psychiatrist
Is to fight that dragon
Open him up
So that you can have
A larger field of relationships

[Chorus]
It's whether you're going to say
No to the serpent
Or yes to the serpent
As easy as that
No to the serpent
Or yes to the serpent
The adventure of being alive, of living
Whether you're going to say
No to the serpent
Yes, yes to the serpent
As easy as that
No, no to the serpent
Yes, yes to the serpent
The adventure of being alive, of living

The real dragon is in you
That's your, your ego
Holding you in
What I want
What I believe
What I can do
What I think I love
And all that
What I regard as the
The aim of my life, and so forth
It might be too small

Might be that which pins you down
And if it's simply that
Of doing what the environment tells you to do
It certainly is
Pinning you down
And so the environment is your dragon
As it reflects within yourself
As it reflects within yourself
As it

[Chorus]
It's whether you're going to say
No to the serpent
Or yes to the serpent
As easy as that
No to the serpent
Or yes to the serpent
The adventure of being alive, of living
Whether you're going to say
No to the serpent
Yes, yes to the serpent
As easy as that
No, no to the serpent
Yes, yes to the serpent
The adventure of being alive

[Chorus]
It whether you're going to say
No to the serpent
Or yes to the serpent
As easy as that
No to the serpent
Or yes to the serpent
The adventure of being alive, of living
It's whether you're going to say
No to the serpent
Yes, yes to the serpent
As easy as that
No, no to the serpent
Yes, yes to the serpent
The adventure of being alive, of living