The song "Graze", to me, at first, sounded a bit literal at times. The
line
that perhaps makes the largest impression is "now there's no time to
LIVE!"
As if something in life is preventing us from truly living, enjoying
life
for what it is. I thought of the place where the boys wrote this song.
They were relaxing in Jamaica in '96 while writing songs for Secret
Samadhi,
and they were probably realizing that life as we know it becomes so
full of
activities, plans, and appointments that we fail to really let go and
realize what makes us happiest; we never find our essence. It seems
like
instead of living life and enjoying life for every moment we have, we
worry
about this and that. Spiritually, the song can be interpreted as a
scrutiny
of those people who wait, and prepare themselves for the afterlife. If
preparing for the afterlife is your goal for life, where is the life?
But
more generally, the song can be interpreted as this: if you live every
stage
of your life preparing for the next, you never live! In Henry Miller's
"The
Enormous Womb", Miller writes, "the best world we have is that which is
this
very moment." But too few of us actually live each moment. As a teen
you
study to get into a good college. At college you learn to get a good
job.
At work you work for extra money to retire. At retirement you plan for
your
funeral. When do you LIVE? A point worth noticing is the fact that as
a
child, you prepare for nothing. You worry about nothing. That's why
we
must take the child's shoes and live for every day, every moment, every
second.
- Dave Fries