Akira The Don - Aim lyrics

{Intro} Therefore take no thought for the morrow For the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof I spent a long time trying to figure out what that meant too Because it's another one of those lines that can easily be read as Pro-grasshopper and anti-ant Remember the old fable of the grasshopper and the ant? Maybe not I’m not going to tell it, but the ant works The grasshopper fiddles The ant has a pretty good time in the winter, and the grasshopper dies And so this is like a pro-grasshopper line, but it's not It says something else, it says that if you orient yourself properly And then pay attention to what you do every day, that works That works That works That works {Chorus} And you can live in the day You're a creature that has an aim You have to have an aim That makes every moment super charged with meaning Live in the day You’re a creature that has an aim You have to have an aim That makes every moment super charged with meaning The world shifts itself around your aim You're a creature that has a aim You have to have an aim In order to do something You're an aiming creature You look at a point, and you move towards it It's built right into you And so you have an aim Well, let's say your aim is the highest possible aim That sets up the world around you It organizes all of your perception, what you see and you don't see Your emotions and your motivation So you organize yourself around that aim and then what happens? The day manifests itself as a set of challenges and problems And if you solve them properly to stay on the pathway towards that aim And you can concentrate on the day And so that way you get to have your cake and eat it too Because you can point into the distance, the far distance Point into the distance, the far distance {Chorus} And you can live in the day You're a creature that has an aim You have to have an aim That makes every moment super charged with meaning Live in the day You're a creature that has an aim You have to have an aim That makes every moment super charged with meaning If everything you’re doing is related to the highest possible aim that you can conceptualize That’s the very definition of the meaning that would sustain you in your life And well, then the issue is back to Noah Well, all hells about to break loose, and chaos is coming, it's like, when that’s happening in your life You might want to be doing something that you regard as truly worthwhile Because that will keep you afloat when everything is flooded And you don't want to wait until the flood comes to start doing that Because if your arks half-built and you don't know how to captain it, the probabilities very high that you'll drown {Chorus} And you can live in the day You’re a creature that has an aim You have to have an aim That makes every moment super charged with meaning Live in the day You're a creature that has an aim You have to have an aim That makes every moment super charged with meaning