About
Lyrics : Mark Jansen (The Funky Algorithm adaptation by Simone Simons and Isaac Delahaye)
Music : Isaac Delahaye
Versions
Album Version (04:54) – The Holographic Principle album
Instrumental Version (04:54) – The Holographic Principle earbook
Acoustic Version / The Funky Algorithm (03:30) – The Holographic Principle digipack, The Holographic Principle earbook
Lyrics
We cannot be free until wee see
All that we are
Cosmic math
Don’t fear death
Since we can’t die
Make use of a computation
Tap into the digits to write
A set of rules to form the universe
Find me the reason
Why are we here ?
(Find the answers in these digitalized times)
How do we reason ?
In data we trust
(Let us focus on the biggest sums of life)
It’s now a matter of life and math
Find the true reason
What do we fear ?
(Find the answer why we’re deaf while we can hear)
How do we reason ?
What do we miss ?
(Find the reason why we’re blind while we can see)
(We’re cosmic math)
Make use of a computation
Tap into the digits to write
A set of rules to form the universe
Center your inside
Due to new insights
Everything seems possible
Clear the confusion
Lift the veil of illusion
Don’t give up our quest
Our quest for life
Ask yourself
Why are we here ?
(Find new answers in the quantum gravity)
Unravel the meaning
For in math we trust
(Let us dream of how to crack the cosmic code)
(We’re cosmic math)
Make use of a computation
Tap into the digits to write
A set of rules to form the universe
Center your inside
Due to new insights
Everything seems possible
Clear the confusion
Lift the veil of illusion
Don’t give up our quest
(Our quest for life)
We don’t fear death
Since we can’t die
Arouse our curiosity
Deep down the rabbit hole
Center your inside
Due to new insights
Everything seems possible
Clear the confusion
Lift the veil of illusion
Don’t give up our quest
Follow our instinct
Or we’ll become extinct
Everything seems logical
Our only salvation
Lies within computation
Don’t give up our quest
Our quest for life
Lyrics – The Funky Algorithm
Find me the reason
Why are we here ?
(To get funky and to feel that you’re alive)
How do we reason ?
In music we trust
(Let’s get funky on the smoothest chords of life)
It doesn’t matter dance to the groove
Find the true reason
What do we fear ?
(Let this funky song light up your darkest night)
How do we reason ?
What do we miss ?
(It’s the funky groove that makes my booty move)
It doesn’t matter dance to the groove
Center your inside
Due to new insights
Everything seems possible
Clear the confusion
Lift the veil of illusion
Don’t give up, just dance
Ask yourself
Why are we here ?
(To get funky on the rhythm and the rhymes)
Unravel the meaning
For in funk we trust
(Let us dream of how to spread the melody)
It doesn’t matter dance to the groove
Center your inside
Due to new insights
Everything seems possible
Clear the confusion
Lift the veil of illusion
Don’t give up, just dance
Arouse our curiosity
Deep down the rabbit hole
Center your inside
Due to new insights
Everything seems possible
Clear the confusion
Lift the veil of illusion
Don’t give up, just dance
Follow your instinct
Or we’ll become extinct
Everything seems logical
Our only salvation
And our true destination
Is not to give up, just dance
It doesn’t matter dance to the groove
Trivia
“These are the lyrics I’m most proud of and they’re about the man beneath the hologram. Machines operate in numbers and code, and you can find similar algorithms in nature, so literally the whole universe as we know it is built on mathematical calculations. When you start seeing the algorithms beneath everything, you start to question : why are we here ? What does it all mean ? And these questions come up in the lyrics. People have always searched for the meaning of life, but the answers are always the same : love, family, friends and helping each other.” – Mark Jansen