Tomorrow Never Knows’, a Beatle song which carry a transcendental message.
Turn off your mind relax and float down-stream,
It is not dying, it is not dying,
Lay down all thoughts, surrender to the void,
It is shining, it is shining.
Yet you may see the meaning of within,
It is being, it is being,
Love is all and love is everyone,
It is knowing, it is knowing.
That ignorance and haste may mourn the dead,
It is believing, it is believing,
But listen to the color of your dreams,
It is not living, it is not living.
So play the game of “existence” to the end.
Of the beginning, of the beginning.
Apparently John Lennon adapted the lyrics of this great track from a manual on the Tibetan Book of the Dead. The ‘instructions’ state precisely that – to turn off, relax your mind and float downstream, being another reference to floating downstream in order to have psychedelic experiences as is depicted in Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
Lennon is said to have read the book whilst tripping on LSD and The Void was considered as an alternate title. During recording Lennon had told their producer George Martin that he wanted to sound like ‘a hundred chanting Tibetan monks’ (Wikipedia) and so they decided to use a Leslie speaker and tape loops to produce the distinctively transcendental sounds that make this Beatles track so hugely popular.
By Bhavika and Clyde
From: Beatles Songs Which Carry a Transcendental Message