Arlo Guthrie
Celery-Time

What care I for time? I mean, people were confused about it anyhow. You know, talking, what is that thing flying around? It's weird, huh? No, it's true. You know, people are concerned. I've been ... I was reading a book about it, and it said that time don't really exist. It's just a kind of figment of your ... it's not even that. What it is is, and this is where it gets really weird. I didn't finish the book, by the way, but it starts talking about time is this thing that happens, because people have these things called cells. I know it sounds crazy, hard to believe, but it's really true. It's these little, round things, and somehow or other, they're part of you and they ... but they're ... they don't ever touch each other exactly. They're kind of like Puritan cells, at least, that's how they act, and some ... but they they exist, you see, because this stuff happens between them, kind of like a spark plug, and that's what they call the celery gap, or something like that. It's , what, you going "eughh?" ... That's, I read it. It's really true, because the people say that these cells can think, it's what you call celery consciousness, and that means that vegetables can think. And I always kind of believed that anyhow. I mean, I never really talked to em' personally, although I've met some in my time. I don't know what it all means. I never got that far, but I thought it was interesting, because what that means is, oh, what I was talking about, was the reason that time, I know I'm supposed to be singing, but you can't always do what you're supposed to do. But no, but what they say is that time exists like we know it, because cells don't touch each other, and therefore all the thoughts got to go from one to the other. And if, if you could stick all the cells on top of each other and then jump on them and make it one big one or something, then you wouldn't ... time would always be now, and it wouldn't be what there was and what there's going to be. So I've been thinking, does that mean when I was here before, that I was here now, or am I not really here now because I might be here later? Or maybe it doesn't even matter, even matter, but I've been giving this a lot of thought, because I know that there's people out, most people, out here are into that stuff, and I just want to say, I'm with you.