Facebook friend Stephen Kitchen is on a roll, posting lots of different versions of “Across the Universe” (by The Beatles, of course).

I’m still very ill, and so also unfocused and suggestible. In that state, music and words and images are more free-floating.

I had always thought that this song had a strange defensiveness to it. Why would nothing change my world? Shouldn’t it be more like everything is changing? Why so selfish and possessive about “my” world? Doesn’t really sound like the right attitude for the thematic.

Well, *click* -“Nothing” IS GOING to change my world.

Thanks to Fiona Apple – this slower version, with visual, made it clearer to me.

Nowhere… and everywhere. Maybe.

Words are flying out like
endless rain into a paper cup
They slither while they pass
They slip away across the universe
Pools of sorrow waves of joy
are drifting thorough my open mind
Possessing and caressing me

Jai guru deva om
Nothing’s gonna change my world
Nothing’s gonna change my world
Nothing’s gonna change my world
Nothing’s gonna change my world

Images of broken light which
dance before me like a million eyes
That call me on and on across the universe
Thoughts meander like a
restless wind inside a letter box
they tumble blindly as
they make their way across the universe

Jai guru deva om
Nothing’s gonna change my world
Nothing’s gonna change my world
Nothing’s gonna change my world
Nothing’s gonna change my world

Sounds of laughter shades of life
are ringing through my open ears
exciting and inviting me
Limitless undying love which
shines around me like a million suns
It calls me on and on across the universe

Jai guru deva om
Nothing’s gonna change my world
Nothing’s gonna change my world
Nothing’s gonna change my world
Nothing’s gonna change my world
Jai guru deva
Jai guru deva