Life's Not A Race Lyrics
to let your mind unwind, like you ought to
feel the earth turn round when your heart rate slows
contemplating the thing only your heart knows
that life's not a race
in a mystery, in a future world
long ago, parts feel for your love
and lives to tell you so
the natural way that things organize
you can't stop entropy so why even try
observe the conscious flow and don't mystify
life's not a race
in a mystery, in a future world
long ago, parts feel for your love
and lives to tell you so
slippin' into a trance
a chance encounter in the autumn
what do I see an opportunity
and then, I got' em
saw the chill-out mix
carve some space
to make you want to listen
it's a bubbling spring
and double in kings
of this soundsystem
in a mystery, in a future world
long ago, parts feel for your love
and lives to tell you so
the rising my friend
imagine cloud like
you will form again
through spacey boredom
in the autumn of late afternoon
you are calm, just like a sleepy room
such a chill song...tim kicks some major ass on this tune...mmm soo good!
I love the party track at the end of this song...... Yea! Hey! Whoa! Hey! Ya !
I love the party track at the end of this song...... Yea! Hey! Whoa! Hey! Ya !
Wonderfull Santana-y tribute, this. I think this song is about chilling out and going with the flow, because life's not a race. The chorus doesn't seem to fit into the rest of the song, it sounds like he still loves someone who doesn't have feelings for him anymore?
@Deathwaffle I think the chorus is about the concept of "energy never being created or destroyed" . The fear of death is touched on, "can't believe that part of me will fade"... "In a future world, long ago" touches on the fact that time is merely a human construct, everything is actually quite cyclical. That same "part" that you are worrying about fading, is already catching your vibe "Part feels for your live, and lives to tell you so" and its literally trying to comfort your fear, because it is "already" reborn. The last verse kind...
@Deathwaffle I think the chorus is about the concept of "energy never being created or destroyed" . The fear of death is touched on, "can't believe that part of me will fade"... "In a future world, long ago" touches on the fact that time is merely a human construct, everything is actually quite cyclical. That same "part" that you are worrying about fading, is already catching your vibe "Part feels for your live, and lives to tell you so" and its literally trying to comfort your fear, because it is "already" reborn. The last verse kind of attempts to give hope, telling you not to worry, you will return, and you already have, and are, and will. Haha 15 years later you get a trippy response. You are spot on with the Santana influence. In fact, I played this song for my uncle when the album came out, and although he really wasn't paying attention, as I was playing the whole album on the way to an amusement park, and he was distracted anyway, when the solo came on, he said "whoah who is this Carlos Santana wanna be" lol. It was a compliment really.
I think this song is about feeling and enjoying nature, and the natural order of the world, its about enjoying life and not trying to figure everything out, just go with it. S.A. may have a few references to reincarnation in there.
see thats why i love this band. sometimes we need some omaha boys to remind us to ignore our rush rush flashy culture and say 'slow down' modern man.
Sa is all about reincarnation. In the 3 choruses it sounds like hes talkin ab someone who left him for reasons he doesnt know and hes imagining how he will feel about it in the future life he will be reincarnated into OR he is talking about a womans refusal to accept his child and he is imagining the endless amount of effects that could happen.. in the end he has already told her his feelings theres nothing he can do......
in the last verse Sa is checking up with you telling you his wild different view wondering if you feel the same "do you see..."
could be a song that you take as you like..
@jpa23245 I think the beauty of 311 lyrics, is that they for sure were written in such a way as to become a living thing, that can grow with you, and can change with you. Well, for sure as in that is what i believe. I like your interpretations, and I too have always thought it was about reincarnation, but I will add that I always thought the "narrator" (yes, SA lyrics, but maybe not written from "his" perspective) was in fear of his own demise at some point, and not even able to fully admit that ALL...
@jpa23245 I think the beauty of 311 lyrics, is that they for sure were written in such a way as to become a living thing, that can grow with you, and can change with you. Well, for sure as in that is what i believe. I like your interpretations, and I too have always thought it was about reincarnation, but I will add that I always thought the "narrator" (yes, SA lyrics, but maybe not written from "his" perspective) was in fear of his own demise at some point, and not even able to fully admit that ALL of him will fade away, not just "part". It even says that very "part" that you are afraid will fade away, is already back anyway, as time doesn't exist, and is digging that you miss "it", and it in fact is alive and well and trying to reach out so that you know... hence I feel like the solo embodies that yearing for it to communicate back. Just as much as "we" want to know truth, truth wants us to know we have it already. Then there is the section saying you don't need to mysticyze the cycle of birth, death, rebirth- don't try to personify it with deities and religions, then maybe you will miss the whole point of life and actually worship a concept of what you yourself literally ARE. The last verse is reassuring the seeker that all is well, they will be back to have this convo and thought again and again. Haha long time for a trippy reply, but hope you dig it.
Nick's talk about the golden spiral is something i have heard of and noticed, spirals are everywhere in nature, whirlpools, seashells, tornadoes, orbits, what trips me out is we live in a supposedly spiral galaxy wonder what other galaxys could be like?
@jpa23245 haha this is rad. So the shape of things in a different non-spiral galaxy could be all together different. Cool. I am pretty sure we have a black hole at the center of ours, and its just going down the drain if you will, being ejected as a big bang "somewhere else"
@jpa23245 haha this is rad. So the shape of things in a different non-spiral galaxy could be all together different. Cool. I am pretty sure we have a black hole at the center of ours, and its just going down the drain if you will, being ejected as a big bang "somewhere else"
To me, it's about awareness. This just came to me. In the first verse, he's scared of the future. The chorus explains the fear of death, of ending up unnoticed in the future, and the contrast between the part lost in the future and the consciousness in the past creates a sense of continuity along time (maybe eternity).
Nick's rap is a shocking way to end the "trance", he's saying he's going for opportunities and living the present. SA then says you will never die, you'll continue alive in some other way, therefore, you must relax and "let it flow, cause it won't stop".
@Snipe pretty spot on. See my above replies for some add ins to this. I think the opportunity Nick is speaking of, is the chance to spread the word about Life Eternal, and he is using music as the hook to project Hope, and that bubbling spring of energy that can be found when Hope abounds.
@Snipe pretty spot on. See my above replies for some add ins to this. I think the opportunity Nick is speaking of, is the chance to spread the word about Life Eternal, and he is using music as the hook to project Hope, and that bubbling spring of energy that can be found when Hope abounds.
@Snipe pretty spot on. See my above replies for some add ins to this. I think the opportunity Nick is speaking of, is the chance to spread the word about Life Eternal, and he is using music as the hook to project Hope, and that bubbling spring of energy that can be found when Hope abounds. As a Browns fan, "Hope Springs Eternal" lol is a real thing you have to have.
@Snipe pretty spot on. See my above replies for some add ins to this. I think the opportunity Nick is speaking of, is the chance to spread the word about Life Eternal, and he is using music as the hook to project Hope, and that bubbling spring of energy that can be found when Hope abounds. As a Browns fan, "Hope Springs Eternal" lol is a real thing you have to have.