This is a more completed song of "God Moves Through You", which is what he wrote for his sister's wedding.
The "God rests in reason" comes from a book called The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran. A while ago while Mraz was traveling, he received this package of spiritual books from an anonymous sender simply telling him to pass it on when he was done, because they didn't belong to him. He dove into them and it led him to go to India and find himself spiritually. This is definitely a manifestation of the message he learned and now wants to give to his sister.
It's really transcendentalist is that he's trying express that everything is part of something greater than human parameters:
"well your children will not be your children
maybe the daughter, the son of a beginning
they'll come through your womb but not be coming from you
they will be with you, but they do not belong to you"
The rest of the song is really just consistent with that notion of an over soul, or a common, communal existence, love, heart, spirit. It doesn't have to be anti-Christian; that existence can be God, which I guess it is to him.
This applies to all of us:
We feel significant in our own lives because of our own experiences and wounds, and we're trying to impose order upon our life in our own little ways, but all the while we're being called by love to this greater existence. And what do you do? Accept it. Take it in.
Jason Mraz is like... the Walt Whitman of music. But more perfect and nicer to women ;)
This is a more completed song of "God Moves Through You", which is what he wrote for his sister's wedding. The "God rests in reason" comes from a book called The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran. A while ago while Mraz was traveling, he received this package of spiritual books from an anonymous sender simply telling him to pass it on when he was done, because they didn't belong to him. He dove into them and it led him to go to India and find himself spiritually. This is definitely a manifestation of the message he learned and now wants to give to his sister.
It's really transcendentalist is that he's trying express that everything is part of something greater than human parameters: "well your children will not be your children maybe the daughter, the son of a beginning they'll come through your womb but not be coming from you they will be with you, but they do not belong to you"
The rest of the song is really just consistent with that notion of an over soul, or a common, communal existence, love, heart, spirit. It doesn't have to be anti-Christian; that existence can be God, which I guess it is to him.
This applies to all of us: We feel significant in our own lives because of our own experiences and wounds, and we're trying to impose order upon our life in our own little ways, but all the while we're being called by love to this greater existence. And what do you do? Accept it. Take it in.
Jason Mraz is like... the Walt Whitman of music. But more perfect and nicer to women ;)