Here are the lyrics and a couple of additional thoughts I have for a recent song I completed earlier this year. This song will be recorded and published on this site later this year.
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Toil No More
I live life in motion
Less noun than verb
Devour all with passion
Less guile more verve
I wish I could stop pushing with urgency
Give it all I got while staying calm
Like salt in the ocean
I wish to merge
Melt into the moment
Both depth and surf
Looking at the world I long for sanity
At the way we spend our time and how we love
Everyday
I look with hungry eyes and
Think with a caring mind
We learn best when we play
Alert and having fun
While we sit or while we run
I live life in motion
Less noun than verb
Devour all with passion
Less guile more verve
Looking at the world I wish that history
Was used to guide and not make us numb
Everyday
Learning is so fun
When its adding to your sum
We learn best when we play
Enjoy activity
Of being you and being me
Life is too short
For hate and war
Life is so short
Work less play more
Toiling no more
Make life a sport
Toiling no more
Make life your sport
1/08/09
I’d like to amplify a few points. First I’d like to talk on some of my intentions for writing the first stanza. When I say I’m more a verb than a noun, I mean that I’m more about experience, action, perception and process than an object. Even though my body is a thing my sense of self is less tangible. Yet, without my body experience, thought and my sense of self would not exist. So, I am a verb, and action taking place within a body that is sensing a world.
In general this song is an energetic celebration of our humanity. We, like most mammals, learn by play. When we are enthralled with life we create both joy and productivity, and we feel best about ourselves and our contemporaries. Industry without play is more likely to be mean, blind and destructive. For industry without play lacks appreciation for our humanity and the wonder that is life.
Hope to have the music to this posted later this year. Hope you find this motivating. I’d love to hear some of your thoughts regarding my music. So please, listen to some of the songs and read the lyrics. I always have felt my music expresses my world better than my posts.
Jim Guido