The message of this song is that you can go out thinking that you are going to control things, search for your gratifications, or somehow "manifest" your destiny, but that isn't the nature of life. Things move in cycles, in accordance with a deeper, natural pattern that you are never going to have ultimate control over. Every verse reflects the truth that life and nature move in cycles, not in some kind of line that can be forced. Let the sun shine when it shines, and accept a deeper wisdom that most people have no understanding of. Learn to wait, and you will achieve real peace. You may think that you will suffer rain and pain if you hesitate, but the truth is that the real misery comes from fighting against the natural way of things. You will never make the world be just what you want it to be, but you can be what you really are if you learn to wait and appreciate and embrace life for what it is on the deepest level. There's a kind of Eastern wisdom at the heart of this song, missing from the modern world, especially in Western society, where everyone thinks that ego gratification is the way to go. There are even people who promote that kind of thing in the modern world a kind of motivational philosophy, but that has more to do with what is wrong with life as it stands than what is right. Still, if you learn to wait, you can get beyond the insanity of the world as it is, and find a kind of peace that is free from all of it. One of the best songs ever written, vastly underrated and never remotely appreciated enough..
The message of this song is that you can go out thinking that you are going to control things, search for your gratifications, or somehow "manifest" your destiny, but that isn't the nature of life. Things move in cycles, in accordance with a deeper, natural pattern that you are never going to have ultimate control over. Every verse reflects the truth that life and nature move in cycles, not in some kind of line that can be forced. Let the sun shine when it shines, and accept a deeper wisdom that most people have no understanding of. Learn to wait, and you will achieve real peace. You may think that you will suffer rain and pain if you hesitate, but the truth is that the real misery comes from fighting against the natural way of things. You will never make the world be just what you want it to be, but you can be what you really are if you learn to wait and appreciate and embrace life for what it is on the deepest level. There's a kind of Eastern wisdom at the heart of this song, missing from the modern world, especially in Western society, where everyone thinks that ego gratification is the way to go. There are even people who promote that kind of thing in the modern world a kind of motivational philosophy, but that has more to do with what is wrong with life as it stands than what is right. Still, if you learn to wait, you can get beyond the insanity of the world as it is, and find a kind of peace that is free from all of it. One of the best songs ever written, vastly underrated and never remotely appreciated enough..