Truth is a Dimension (Both Invisible and Blinding)

Lyrics

I got off the highway north of Desert Canyon Station I was driving with my headlights off, just stars for navigation My telescope, my notes and my ham sandwiches and coffee Sometimes you must be all alone and there ain't no way to not be I was thinking about Tonya, how things had rearranged And everything had gone full circle, we were back to being strangers She was with a man named Neil now, that's all I knew about him But I was happy she was happy, real happy that she'd found him It was just after 11 when I pulled off at the lookout The parking lot was empty though the air still smelled like cookouts And yes I admit I toked one, that doesn't change what happened Anyway, you're not my parents, and it really helps my mapping Of the System 611, a Magellanic cluster I'd been watching for a while, I got my telescope adjusted And I turned it on an unassuming patch of dusty sky That was really fifty billion stars a billion lightyears wide And then all at once it felt as if time had been suspended And a vision poured into me like a bottle'd been upended I was filled with revelation both infinite and finite That filtered down my telescope encoded in the starlight It said, "Truth is not immutable, itself is a dimension Truth can be both weighted down and warped in strange directions Truth has a shape that alters, each according to observer Sometimes you must be close to it, sometimes you must be further Truth can bend and truth can break, depends on how you ask it It frays or it may blaze out at some Paul bound for Damascus And it sometimes gets mistook for God, sometimes for his servant It both exists and doesn't, like a star that's not observed yet" Which all at once returned my thoughts to System 611 Still twinkling down the telescope into my mind from heaven And I stood there looking upward as the darkness turned to dawn And received that strange transmission 'til finally it was gone And though I knew beyond a shadow my discovery was real The person that I longed to tell was sound asleep with Neil In some parallel dimension, maybe Tonya was still mine But in this one, she loves someone else That left me to search the sky So I went ahead and wrote this to alert you to my findings I call it, "Truth Is a Dimension Both Invisible and Blinding" You can give me the awards now, you can knight me or whatever I've got nothing going on now me and Tonya aren't together You can go ahead and laugh at me and all of my conclusions Symposiums and seminars and think tank institutions You may even talk to Tonya, let me ask you, if you do Please tell her I still love her, that will always be the truth