# Sturgill Simpson - Turtles All The Way Down

**URL:** https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/sturgill-simpson-turtles-all-the-way-down/1539
**Category:** Metapsychosis journal
**Tags:** video, music, metamodern
**Created:** [November 9, 2017, 4:06pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/sturgill-simpson-turtles-all-the-way-down/1539 "2017-11-09T16:06:39Z")
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### Author: ![madrush](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/infiniteconversations/user_avatar/www.infiniteconversations.com/madrush/32/6452_2.png) [@madrush](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/madrush)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2017, 4:06pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/sturgill-simpson-turtles-all-the-way-down/1539/1 "2017-11-09T16:06:39Z")

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From the album, [Metamodern Sounds In Country Music](https://sturgillsimpson.bandcamp.com/album/metamodern-sounds-in-country-music).

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/6gBV-Nzq7Pg/maxresdefault.jpg "Sturgill Simpson - Turtles All The Way Down") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gBV-Nzq7Pg)

(Thanks to @Douggins for the [share…](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/salmon-run-by-paul-maylone/1538/3))

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### Author: ![Douggins](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/infiniteconversations/user_avatar/www.infiniteconversations.com/douggins/32/1351_2.png) [@Douggins](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/Douggins)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2017, 4:19pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/sturgill-simpson-turtles-all-the-way-down/1539/2 "2017-11-09T16:19:53Z")

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Lyrics:

I’ve seen Jesus play with flames in a lake of fire that I was standing in  
Met the devil in Seattle and spent 9 months inside the lion’s den  
Met Buddha yet another time and he showed me a glowing light within  
But I swear that God is there every time I glare in the eyes of my best friend  
Says my son it’s all been done and someday your gonna wake up old and gray  
So go and try to have some fun showing warmth to everyone  
You meet and greet and cheat along the way

There’s a gateway in our mind that leads somewhere out there beyond this plane  
Where reptile aliens made of light cut you open and pull out all your pain  
Tell me how you make illegal something that we all make in our brain  
Some say you might go crazy but then again it might make you go sane

Every time I take a look inside inside that old and fabled book  
I’m blinded and reminded of the pain caused by some old man in the sky  
Marijuana, LSD, Psilocybin, and DMT  
They all changed the way I see  
But love’s the only thing that ever saved my life

So don’t waste your mind on nursery rhymes  
Or fairy tales of blood and wine  
It’s turtles all the way down the line  
So to each their own til’ we go home  
To other realms our souls must roam  
To and through the myth that we all call space and time
