(lyrics and music by Chris Watson, Copyright ©1986)
Rounded rocks in course of stream
wearing down in course of time.
Of course I mean:
entropy, increasing to maximum.
Maybe I can stay the same.
Maybe I will never die,
but in what frame
of reference is my mind? How do I
find the answers to this quest?
Does it matter what they are?
Am I host or am I guest?
The title refers to a concept of Thermodynamics, but this song also deals with the philosophical implications of this concept. It hints at the theory of Relativity (“in what frame of reference is my mind”), and when I ask “Am I host or am I guest?” it addresses the most fundamental question of all: WHO AM I? The same question is in the song Prayer when I say “I wonder who I'm seeing when I look into my eyes.”
I write songs on every subject imaginable, usually about what's important to me. I have always wondered about the meaning of life and why we have to die and WHO AM I ANYWAY?
This song has fingerpicking in D.