Both as a standalone and as part of the DSOTS album, you can take this lyric as read. As a matter of public record, Jourgensen's drug intake was legendary even in the 1980s. By the late 90s, in his own words, he was grappling with massive addiction issues and had lost almost everything: friends, spouse, money and had nearly died more than once. "Dark Side of the Spoon" is a both funny & sad title for an album made by a musical genius who was losing the plot; and this song is a message to his fans & friends saying he knows it. It's painful to listen to so I'm glad the "Keith Richards of industrial metals" wised up and cleaned up. Well done sir.
Without going out of my door
I can know all things of earth
Without looking out of my window
I could know the ways of heaven
The farther one travels
The less one knows
The less one really knows
Without going out of your door
You can know all things on earth
Without looking out of your window
You could know the ways of heaven
The farther one travels
The less one knows
The less one really knows
Arrive without traveling
See all without looking
Do all without doing
I can know all things of earth
Without looking out of my window
I could know the ways of heaven
The farther one travels
The less one knows
The less one really knows
Without going out of your door
You can know all things on earth
Without looking out of your window
You could know the ways of heaven
The farther one travels
The less one knows
The less one really knows
Arrive without traveling
See all without looking
Do all without doing
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first, there's a line missing, what's in the parentheses should be replaced with "Do all without doing"
next, prepare yourselves, this is fascinating:
So apparently, George and John were doing a tv interview that focused on meditation and their experiences in India. A Sanskrit scholar at Cambridge saw it and was impressed by their sincerity and knowledge of Indian philosophy, and wrote George a letter. He suggested that George set lyrics to his (the scholar's) rendering of some verses of the Tao Te Ching (you know... the Chinese book of Taoism). These were the verses:
Without going out of my door I can know all things on earth. Without looking out of my window I can know the ways of heaven.
For the farther one travels, The less one knows.
The sage therefore Arrives without travelling, Sees all without looking, Does all without doing.
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I think this is more about how a lot of people think they know everything and have everything figured out because they have so many life experiences; or have read alot of books and traveled, or are intellectuals and know about 'high art' - I think this song is really saying that the people who tend to know the most, are the ones who appear to people like THOSE, to know the least. I've never really been a Beatles fan - at all - but I saw this song posted somewhere and Googled the lyrics and fell in love with them because it says what I've been secretly suspecting for a long time now.
It's also personally significant to me because I'm a bit of a shut-in, and when people find out they always start to immediately dismiss and discard anything I have to say or anything I think like, "What can you know about ANYthing? You barely even leave your house." It's like this song managed to put into words exactly what I've always felt about that, but could never manage to put into words, myself.
True, that's what I'm saying.<br /> We are all part of the same source, so we are all equal. <br /> Some people try to differentiate themselvs with opinions, manners and knowings but ultimatly nothing of that matters. <br /> It's only love y'all. We are only love.<br /> <br /> Check out Eckhart Tolle or Burt Harding on YouTube if you find the meaning of this song interesting.
This is a really amazing song that gets over looked a great deal.
I agree, this is a bad ass song. Not a lot of people know of it I guess because it wasn't on any of their albums
Yeah, one of the great overlooked b-sides. Also one of George's very Indian influenced songs.
It is in fact extremely influenced by George's Indian philosophical investigations, and is one of my favorites by him. However, the text is actually taken from the Tao Te Ching of the ancient traditional Chinese sage Lao-Tzu. Daoism has much in common with some Indian and other Asian schools that appealed to George.
i love this song. i like the lyrics but not as much as the tune and instruments used and overall feeling of the song
This song is so cool! Very spiritual!
I think this means that you can reach your goal by just believing in something. I love the last part. Arrive without travelling and all that.
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I adore this song. The line "the farther one travels, the less one knows" sums up everything. You don't need to experience everything in life to have lived life.
I think there's a clear straight line from "Within You Without You" to "The Inner Light". Obviously Harrison has learned something in those couple of years, and it comes shining out here in his writing. Also consider his songs pre and post "Inner Light". Before, most were disenchanted, frustrated, or, at best, worrisome. (Consider Blue Jay Way, Piggies, Within You Without You, While My Guitar Gently Weeps) After, he seemed to achieve a sort of Zen-like calm. (All Things Must Pass, My Sweet Lord, Here Comes The Sun, Give Me Love, etc.) This appears to be the turning point in Harrison's life.
The lyrics pretty much say one thing: "The answer is inside." This is a motif in about a billion other Indian songs, and Harrison Anglofies it here with great skill.
The music is calm and celebratory all at once. I'm not sure of the instruments, I confess, but the thing that sounds like an organ provides continuity while the plucked instruments provide almost wild variation. Thusly, at the end ("Do all without doing, know all without knowing.), you can feel yourself being sort of swept up in a whirlpool of peace. Seems contradictory, eh? Too bad. It's Harrison.
Hmmm it's obviously about weed. How else is it possible to know all of heaven's ways without looking out the window?
Haha that comment really made my day =)
@Featherston transcendental meditation