From the recording Speaking a Dead Language

Lyrics

Law of Identity

I am what I am.
I know what I know.
A rose is a rose is a rose.
Nobody knows
the trouble I’ve seen,
nobody anyone knows.

The past is the past.
What’s done is done.
We’re blind to our destiny.
Whatever it is,
it is what it is.
What will be will be will be.

Let A equal A.
Let B equal B.
We’re non-intersecting plots.
You are who you are.
You’re wearing your skin.
A leopard can’t change its spots.

East is east
and west is west.
The oyster and the clam.
I am plus zero.
I am times one.
I am what I am what I am what I am.