All of the Obvious

A song composed by American song writer and poet and fine artist Paul Hall. The poetry was written in Brisbane, Australia as the second of two anthologies of poetry by Paul during his walkabout in central and eastern parts of that country. The first anthology was called "A Tenant in Tenant Creek" and wasn't put to music, but this second larger anthology, "Texts Immutable", which was written in Melbourne (which Paul calls "Little Mellie"), Tenant Creek, Mount Isa, and Brisbane (which Paul Calls "Brizzie"), was put to music in "The Sweat Box", a small self-ventilated room with steel walls Paul built in a friend's dirt basement (with his friend's help) in a suburb town on the outskirts of Auckland, New Zealand.

In the song, attention is given to nature at the offset, but then regards the cryptic greed of mankind in general which the song recognizes as futile in light of a vague reference at the end to some sort of life after death situation that does not bode well for those opulent who have not really experienced life in this realm.

Out from under the earthen ground

the tender plants, they grow.

To greet the world with radiance

where blossoms they do flow.

And cast their petals into the wind

when Autumn's cold appears.

And thus they grow into the seeds

from which new plants will grow.

With purpose and with harmony

the natural life does flow

and deep within his inner life

the natural man must go.