Luis Guevara - life is like music Lyrics

Music as an art form is essentially playful you say you "play the piano" you don't work the piano

Why?

Music differs from say travel when you travel you are trying to get somewhere
And of course we because being a very compulsive and purposeful culture
Are busy getting everywhere faster and faster and faster; until we eliminate the distance between places

What happens as a result of that is that the two ends of your journey becomes the same place
So you eliminate the distance and you eliminate the journey
But the fun of the journey is to travel not to obliterate travel

So then in music though one doesn't make the end of the composition the point of the composition

If that was so the best conductors would be those who play fastest

We thought of life by analogy with a journey with a pilgrimage
Which had a serious purpose at the end; and the thing was to get to that end
Success or whatever it is or maybe heaven after you're dead

But we missed the point the whole way along
It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played

But you had to do that you didn't let it happen

But it all comes apart in the end and people get worried about that they get anxious
So what they gained on the round-about they lost on the swings

So then if you see on the other hand that existence that existence is musical in nature
That it is to say that it is not serious that it is a play of all kinds of patterns

Now existence you see is something that is spontaneous the Chinese word for nature (Tian ran)
Means that which happens of itself
Your hair grows by itself
Your heart beats by itself
You breathe pretty much by itself
Your glands secrete their essences by themselves

You don't have voluntary control over these things so we say it happens spontaneously
So when you go to sleep and you try to go to sleep
You interfere with the spontaneous process of going to sleep

So if you go to be human you just have to trust yourself to have bowel movements go to sleep

And so with the whole picture that is fundamental you have got to let go and let it happen
Because if you don't you're going to be all clutched up
You're going to be constantly trying to do what can happen healthily only if you don't try