I try to picture the girl
Through a looking glass
And see her as a carbon atom
See her eyes and stare back at them
See that girl
As her own new world
Though a home is on the surface, she is still a universe

Glory God, oh God is peeking through the blinds
Are we all here standing naked
Taking guesses at the actual date and time
Oh my, justifying reasons why
Is an absolutely insane resolution to live by

Live high
Live mighty
Live righteously
Takin' it easy
Live high
Live mighty
Live righteously

And try to picture the man
To always have an open hand
And see him as a giving tree
See him as matter
A matter of fact he's not a beast
Oh no not the devil either
Always a good deed doer
And it's laughter that we're makin' after all

The call of the wild is still an ordination why
And the order of the primates
All our politics are too late
Oh my, the congregation in my mind
Is this assembly singing of gratitude
Practicing their lovin' for you

Live high
Live mighty
Live righteously
Takin' it easy
Live high
Live mighty
Live righteously

Let's take it out
And just take it easy
And celebrate the malleable reality
You see nothing is ever as it seems
Yeah this life is but a dream

Lift me up to the almighty
Raise your hands and start acknowledging
If you're living it righteously
Then you take the easy way
Just, just, take, take, take it easy

Live high, live high
Live mighty, mighty, mighty
Oh, live righteously
And takin' it easy
Live high, live mighty
Oh, live righteously
And just take, just, just takin' it easy high
Oh, live mighty, mighty
Oh, live righteously
Just take it easy
Say live high
Oh, live righteously, hey
Just take it easy


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Live High Lyrics as written by Jason Thomas Mraz

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    I think that this song is about not taking life too seriously and also about acknowledging the gift of life that God has given us and praising him with gratitude daily.

    I think that maybe in the first verse Jason is trying to imagine what it is like to look through God's eyes. He is looking down at his own creation, a girl who is aware of him, looking back at him. She lives on Earth, yet she means the universe to him.

    Jason, I think, is writing about God's presence in his life. He knows that God is watching his actions and that by guessing at the date and time he is implying that compared to God's knowledge, we really know nothing - even about the things we feel sure of.

    Then, in the second verse, he is talking about God. If you remember a Children's book called The Giving Tree, it is about this tree that gives a little boy everything he had - his branches to swing on, some wood to burn for warmth, etc. The boy keeps taking and taking and never gives anything in return, yet the tree still nurtures him even when it is only a stump, it offers itself as a seat for the boy.

    I too am baffled by "the call of the wild" phrase. But whenever I hear it, I think of this movie I saw called "Expelled" (documentary with ben stein) about teaching evolution in schools and how the educational instutitution is so against teaching creationalism that many teachers are afraid to talk about it in schools in fear of being "expelled" from teaching. Anyway, "The order of the primates" is what made me think of it because I think of that famous picture that depicts how humans evolved from apes.

    The congregation in his mind is the church giving thanks to their loving creator.

    jazzkittenon October 15, 2008   Link

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