"Breaking Up, with Zeno"      (c) 2005 Scott Hawley

VERSE 1:
I'm goin' slower and slower on down the street
You have sapped my strength
I'm pondering Zeno as my steps shrink,
Dying in their length.
And no matter how fine I try to feel
Your memory won't recede 

CHORUS:
I'm hopin' time will provide my resolution
The trouble is you're never really gone
And all motion is an illusion
'Cause I can't move on

VERSE 2:
I was Achilles, the champion
In you I met my match
'Cause I was too fast for your tortoise heart
A prey I couldn't catch  
Then you pulled back and shot a frozen arrow
You stopped me cold, and stuck me here.

CHORUS

BRIDGE:
In you I'd chosen one over many
But you broke my sense of integrity
'Cause you shattered me into such tiny pieces
I can't choose which ones to be
...I'm reduced to absurdity.


  (Zeno was an ancient Greek philosopher who favored Parmenides' view 
that "all is one".  Zeno used illustrative "paradoxes" of space and 
time to try to show that the views of "pluralists" were absurd.)