Everything Will Flow

Watch the early morning sun
Drip like blood from the day
See the crazy people run
So many games to play
See the blue suburban dream
Under the jet plane sky
Sleep away and dream a dream
Life is just a lullaby

Ah Ah Ah
And everything will flow

Watch the day begin again
Whispering into the night
See the crazy people play
Hurrying under the light
A million cars, a million trains
Under the jet plane sky
Nothing lost and nothing gained
Life is just a lullaby

The neon lights in the night tonight will say
Everything will flow
The stars that shine in the open sky will say
Everything will flow
The lovers kissed with an openness will say
Everything will flow
The cars parked in the hypermarket know
Everything will flow…

Comments: This hit by Suede is one of the most reassuring contemporary songs I’ve ever heard. It is reassuring because its lyrics gently yet surely urges the listener to realise that everything changes, which is the truth of mind and matter being impermanent, while the way it is sung encourages us to make peace with this reality. The chorus is a poetic modern ‘mantra’ about change… ‘Ah Ah Ah… and everything will flow’ – a more flowing version of ‘This too, will pass.’ Everything will flow. Even this song itself has flowed on, forgotten by many. The only part of the lyrics I disagree with is that ‘life if just a lullaby’, in which we ‘sleep away and dream a dream’. It’s really the opposite – life shouldn’t be slept away or spent dreaming; life is an opportunity to awaken from the dream of Samsara.

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