Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot Lyrics
When your secrets all found out
When your troubles take to mounting
When the map you have leads you to doubt
When there's no information
And the compass turns to nowhere that you know well
Let your soul be your pilot
Let your soul guide you
He'll guide you well
When no medicine chest can make you well
When no counsel leads to comfort
When there are no more lies they can tell
No more useless information
And the compass spins
The compass spins between heaven and hell
Let your soul be your pilot
Let your soul guide you
He'll guide you well
To the lights upon the hill
The distance seems so strange to you now
The dark room seems so still
Let your tears be my tears too
Let your courage be my model
That the north you find will be true
When there's no more useless information
And the compass turns to nowhere
That you know well
Let your soul guide you
Let your soul guide you
Let your soul guide you
Upon your way
On the VH1 show Storytellers, Sting said this song was written in honor of a good friend of his who died from AIDS.
Never liked this one. Something about it bugs me but I never thought about it long enough to figure out what. Maybe at the time I heard it, I just wanted to be hearing something else.
To me this song is about listening to your Soul to find a path in life especially when there are many things pushing you in different directions.
This is one of the most relaxing and most uplifting songs ever!
To my mind, it is also very true. In the end (when everything else has failed or become unimportant) our soul and what our soul wants and needs is the only thing that matters.
In our modern, hurried world we often forget that we even have a soul - we do what we ought to do, what people expect from us, what society asks of us, what we've been told was right, ... But every now and then, we need a moment all on our own, to recover not only our exhausted bodies but also our souls. Personally, good and uplifting music has always been what helps me best to recover. ; )