Three Of A Perfect Pair Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Amoghasiddhi 

Cover art for Three Of A Perfect Pair lyrics by King Crimson

Good job to the previous comments as they do allude to the ultimate meaning. We tend to think with our "rational" individualistic thought filled minds that create our identities that a relationship is about two individuals compromising to make love work. Unfortunately in one way or another we fail to find the true love we think is about to come around the corner and rescue us from all psychotic behavior that comes out in the relationship that turns into aggression, rejection, grasping and clinging. That's from all the fears and desires we try to hide but are the true motivators that started it all.

So where is the love that conquers all? It's hidden in the three. But who or what is this third wheel that brings balance and makes it possible to move such a heave load forward. All those good and rotten apples we bring to the relationship now heaped together in one cart. Without the third wheel we keep teetering from side to side spilling apples all over the road. Franticly trying to pick them up and put them back in the cart before someone else comes along and grabs them, or we start running over them and stepping on each other’s apples saying there rotten....

You can call the third wheel God’s truth that can make a pair perfect. That is if they can follow his way above their own way. You can say in Christ or with Buddha nature. Another way to look at it is through the Triyana symbolic representations in Vajrayana Buddhism or yin and yang in Zen/Taoist traditions. Substitute your own religious beliefs here. Just remember it’s only a belief full of imperfections, not the ultimate truth in love that it points to.

If you want to look at it through mythology or the self then the third is the union of the two individual subconscious’s uniting as one in love. That’ why love can change you so much. It comes from the subconscious which can make things easy for you or difficult if you deny everything it has to tell you about life. The problem is you have to work through your stupid stubborn ego that tells you your right and deserve everything and everybody else’s stupid ego is getting in the way, or....

False love can be two egos that agree until all that baggage starts to come out. They don’t call it an intimate relationship for nothing. So in the end we all have to work through a lot of stuff with that person we love. Each soul mate pair will have unique challenges, but if they can get through it they will come to see the true reason they were attracted to each other in the first place, three of a perfect pair. Don’t help each other work it out and you will repeat the same mistakes over and over, or you will write great songs about it without realizing what you are writing about. Love can also make you crazy, yes? No, this life you have which prevents you from seeing the love within yourself that wants to unite with whoever that other person is in your life is making you blind deaf and dumb. Just open your eyes and see how crazy this world is without true love.

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