Thoughts

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Hey, I’ve got all these thoughts in my head
Will somebody tell me where they come from?
And hey all these thoughts are they derived from
Simple ideas of sensation
And reflection?
Oh no, oh no, oh no

But what about the ideas of you and me?
Sure we are clothed in properties
But there are substrata underneath
That must support them
And simple ideas of sensation and reflection
Are only ideas of properties
So it’s worse than a we know not what
There’s an incoherency

And hey I’ve got all these thoughts in my head
Are some of them defined in terms of causal relations?
But say, if causation is never perceived
Externally or internally
Is the idea had innately? A priori?

But I feel that you are moving toward the direction
Of a view that all necessary connection
Is but a product of the faculty of conception
But if you go this far
Will we ever know how we truly are?
All these mysteries, hidden properties
Will we ever know how we truly are?

Hey, there are all these thoughts in my head
And is the content of them
Externally determined
By the environment that I am in
The experts I implicitly defer to
Do I let them fix the meanings of what I’m thinking?
Oh yeah, oh yeah

Well, that may be well and good as a story
Of how H₂O is understood
But can’t I know with more certainty
What’s going on inside of me
And if they are fixed by what’s around
The transparency of the mental is unsound
And maybe all these thoughts in my head
Aren’t only in my head
I got all these thoughts in my head