You Could Leave Life Right Now
Embracing Life's Choices: Insights from Akira the Don's 'You Could Leave Life Right Now'
Lyrics
In comparing sins the way that people do
In comparing sins, people evaluate them differently.
Theophrastus says those done out of desire
Theophrastus suggests sins driven by desire are worse than those from anger.
Are worse than those done out of anger
Describes the nature of sins motivated by desire and anger.
(Which is good philosophy)
Acknowledges the philosophical insight in the previous lines.
The angry man seems to turn his back
Compares the nature of sins committed in anger and pleasure.
On reason out of a
-Kind of pain and inner convulsion
-But the man motivated by desire
-Who is mastered by pleasure
-Seems somehow more self-indulgent
-Less manly in his sins theophrastus is right
Agrees with Theophrastus that pleasure-driven sins deserve harsher rebuke.
And philosophically sound
-To say the sin committed out of pleasure
-Deserves a harsher rebuke
-Than the one committed out of pain
Further contrasts sins of the angry man with those driven by desire.
The angry man is more like a victim
-Of wrongdoing provoked by pain to anger
-The other man rushes into wrongdoing
-On his own moved to action by desire
-You could leave life right now
Repetition urging the listener to consider the idea of leaving life.
Let that determine what you do
-And say and think
-You could leave life right now
-You could leave life right now
-You could leave life right now
-Let that determine what you do
-And say and think
-You could leave life right now
-You could leave life right now
-If the gods exist
Contemplates the existence and care of gods and their impact on human life.
Then to abandon human beings
-Is not frightening
-The gods would never subject you to harm
-And if they don’t exist
-Or don’t care what happens to us
-What would be the point of living in a world
-Without gods or Providence?
-But they do exist
Asserts that gods exist, care for humans, and provide the means to avoid harm.
They do care what happens to us
-And everything a person needs
-To avoid real harm
-They have placed within him
-If there were anything harmful on
-The other side of death
-They would have made sure that the ability
-To avoid it was within you
-If it doesn’t harm your character
Argues that if something doesn't harm one's character, it can't harm one's life.
How can it harm your life?
-Nature would not overlook such dangers
-Through failing to recognize
-Or because it saw them but was
-Powerless to prevent or correct them
-To prevent or correct them (Ey)
Expresses confidence in the competence of nature to prevent harm.
Nor would it ever
-Through inability or incompetence
-Make such a mistake as to let good and bad
Rejects the idea of indiscriminate events happening to good and bad alike.
Things happen indiscriminately to good
-And bad alike good and bad alike
-Good and bad alike
-But death and life success and failure
Reiterates that various life events affect both good and bad individuals alike.
Pain and pleasure wealth and poverty
-All these happen to good and bad alike
-Good and bad alike good and bad alike
-Good and bad alike
-But death and life success and failure
Expands on the neutrality of events like death, success, failure, etc., for good and bad individuals.
Pain and pleasure
-All these happen to good and bad alike
-And they are neither noble nor
-Shameful and hence neither good nor bad
-You could leave life right now
Repeats the theme of contemplating leaving life and its impact on actions and thoughts.
Let that determine what you do
-And say and think
-You could leave life right now
-You could leave life right now
-You could leave life right now
-Let that determine what you do
-And say and think
-You could leave life right now
-You could leave life right now
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