alchemia, academia, silent sweet bohemia

shh — don't tell (don't tell!)

shh — don't dwell (don't dwell!)

alchemia, academia, silent sweet bohemia

alchemia, academia, silent sweet bohemia

shh — don't tell (don't tell!)

shh — don't dwell (don't dwell!)

alchemia, academia, silent sweet bohemia

DROP-REFRAIN — claps, gang vocals]

shh — don't tell (don't tell!)

shh — don't dwell (don't dwell!)

Kha-mush! (hey!) Kha-mush! (ho!)

seal the gold and let it grow (grow!)

alchemia, academia, silent sweet bohemia

alchemia, academia, silent sweet bohemia

alchemia, academia, silent sweet bohemia

shh — don't tell (don't tell!)

shh — don't dwell (don't dwell!)

Kha-mush! (hey!) Kha-mush! (ho!)

seal the gold and let it grow (grow!)

alchemia, academia, silent sweet bohemia

alchemia, academia, silent sweet bohemia

alchemia, academia, silent sweet bohemia

feathers off birds

tell them flock or tell them herd

tell by seen or tell by heard?

draw em ink or write em word

think em thoughts or how or when

how when trap them and what then

how when hold em and what then

how when kill them till no then

words make sense as we grow old

as we know told from untold

as we grow more scared and less brave

as we greed lust and crave

as we are no longer new born

as not talking is something to scorn

silent well, don't tell or dwell

tell not, tell not your you as well

not your brain, not your mind

see the see and act so blind

sol-ve! (sol-ve!) co-a-gu-la! (co-a-gu-la!)

turn the dark to gold — yalla!

sol-ve! co-a-gu-la! — don't peek, don't tell —

transformation in the dark, and all is well

Lao Tzu wrote Tao Te Ching

"those who know do not speak; those who speak know no thing"

"let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night," said Sun Tzu

"and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt" — and strike on show

keeping silent solve all tricks

know, will, dare, be magus winning sphinx

your secret is your blood, spilled as you speak

think speech makes you strong — energy-ruption drains you

Kha-mush! (hey!) Kha-mush! (ho!)

seal the gold and let it grow (grow!)

alchemia, academia, silent sweet bohemia

alchemia, academia, silent sweet bohemia

alchemia, academia, silent sweet bohemia

a-kous-ma-ti-koi! (listen!)

silence toi, silence moi!

know, will, dare — shhh!

Kha-mush! (hey!) Kha-mush! (ho!)

silent well, don't tell or dwell

tell not, tell not your you as well

not your brain, not your mind

see the see and act so blind

solve et coagula — transformation happens in the dark

solve et coagula — transformation at every spark, every new mark

gold forms in a sealed alembic — closed, dark —

peek, look, it'll disembark

like the cake, look, fails to bake

Khamush, Khamush — what can words say?

how much four-lettered "love" can scribe my way?

Khamush, Khamush — let silent tell

like space, silent scribes more well

akousmatikoi, akousmatikoi

silence our toi, silence pour moi

go into your room and shut the door

bring about the you you pray — or pray not for

write with left, peak not peak's theft

t'is your right to keep your deft

shh — don't tell (don't tell!)

Kha-mush! (hey!) Kha-mush! (ho!)

seal the gold and let it grow (grow!)

alchemia, academia, silent sweet bohemia

alchemia, academia, silent sweet bohemia

silent well, don't tell or dwell

cause at tell, it sounds as done

got the clap, got the fun

care you seeked is fetched at none

cause for you, true you is the one caring one

so talk to you with sound unheard

fly like wind, like air, like bird

need no talk out, need no talk in

need no reminder where at, where been

tell not, tell not your you as well

not your brain, not your mind

see the see and act so blind

you asked "how? when?" — ya rai-yes, let it go —

the seed don't tell the soil how fast to grow

you keep the what, you drop the how and when,

you set the fire... and you don't peek in the den

the baby knew the vast before it knew a word,

Khamush knew the same — that's why he blurred

so be the see that sees the see, and act so blind —

you're not the noise, ya rai-yes... you're the quiet behind the mind

same water, ya rai-yes — different glass, different shore:

you're not your neurons... i'm not my stack... there's a you at the core.

the baby and the mystic — same soul, both ends of the fall:

one never left the vast... one swam all the way back through it all.

so shut the door, seal the gold, and let the silence spin —

the wordless world was always where the real words begin.

Khamush.