Sowing the Seeds of Love

LYRICS

High time we made a stand & shook up the views of the common man

And the love train rides from coast to coast

DJ’s the man we love the most
Could you be, could you be squeaky clean
And smash any hope of democracy
As the headline says you’re free to choose
There’s egg on your face and mud on your shoes
One of these days they’re gonna call it the blues, yeah yeah

(Sowing the seeds of love) anything is possible
(Seeds of love) when you’re sowing the seeds of love
(Sowing the seeds of love)
(Sowing the seeds of love) anything is possible
(Seeds of love) sowing the seeds of love (Sowing the seeds)

I spy tears in their eyes
They look to the skies for some kind of divine intervention
Food goes to waste, so nice to eat, so nice to taste
Politician Granny with your high ideals
Have you no idea how the majority feels
So without love and a promised land
We’re fools to the rules of a government plan
Kick out the style, bring back the jam

(Sowing the seeds of love) anything (seeds of love)
(Sowing the seeds of love) (Sowing the seeds of love, seeds of love)
Sowing the seeds, the birds and the bees, my girlfriend and me in love

Feel the pain, talk about it, if you’re a worried man then shout about it
Open hearts, feel about it, open minds, think about it
Everyone read about it, everyone scream about it
Everyone (everyone, yeah yeah)
Everyone (everyone) read about it, read about it
Read it in the books in the crannies
And the nooks there are books to read…Chorus!!!

(Sowing the seeds of love) Oh, the seeds of love
We’re sowing the seeds, sowing the seeds

We’re sowing the seeds of love. we’re sowing the seeds
Sowing the seeds of love, we’re sowing the seeds of love
(Mr. England sowing the seeds of love)

(Time to eat all your words, swallow your pride, open your eyes)
Time to eat all your words, swallow your pride, open your eyes
High time we made a stand (time to eat all your words)
And shook up the views of the common man (swallow your pride)
And the love train rides from coast to coast (open your eyes)
Every minute of every hour “I Love a Sunflower” (open your eyes)
And I believe in love power (open your eyes)
Love power, love (open your eyes) power

 

(Sowing the seeds of love, seeds of love…Sowing the seeds of love)
(Sowing the seeds of love, seeds of love)
We’re sowing the seeds (sowing the seeds of love)
Sowing the seeds of love, we’re sowing the seeds (seeds of love)
Sowing the seeds, an end to need, and the politics of greed with love
(Sowing the seeds of love, seeds of love, sowing the seeds of love)
(Sowing the seeds of love) anything (seeds of love) anything
(Sowing the seeds of love, Sowing the seeds of love, seeds of love)
(Sowing the seeds, an end to need, and the politics of greed with love)
(Sowing the seeds of love, seeds of love, sowing the seeds of love)
(Sowing the seeds of love, seeds of love, sowing the seeds of love)
(Sowing the seeds of love, seeds of love, sowing the seeds of love)
(Sowing the seeds of love, seeds of love)

wikipedia articles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sowing_the_Seeds_of_Love

       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tears_for_Fears

 

 

Commentary

        Tears for Fears were one of the better groups of the ’80s, and “Sowing the Seeds of Love” was definitely one of the better and more memorable songs.  Back then I (and others) thought less of it because it seemed like such a Beatles knock-off (particularly Lennon-esque at the end there), but I can certainly appreciate it, and the video, much more now.   It’s quite a brilliant piece of work, I think we all will agree on this point at this point.

          So what’s this song saying, if anything?  It seems to be extolling music, for one, and through music (and via the medium of radio — the “love train” that rides from “coast to coast” is radio, and “DJ’s the one we love the most”) the band is “sowing the seeds of love,” and each song on their LP “The Seeds of Love,” is a seed.  I think that’s the message in a nutshell (in seed form).  And perhaps music has been one of the greatest catalyzers of open hearts and minds — and so have books (find them in the nooks and crannies — of the heart, of the earth, where the seeds of new life is, where the flowers grow), of course, but mostly music — that’s the key.   There’s a sense in which you might say, ”Yes, but here we are two decades later, and what’s really changed?  Did this little song make any kind of difference?”  

          Well, I guess it would have had more of an effect if everyone and his brother didn’t want to rule the fookin’ world ; ) .   No, seriously — I’m serious.   The only way to Love is via changing your own heart and mind — or perhaps better put: Tuning into the Love Frequency.  It’s something that each individual (and his brother) has to do.  Don’t look to the skies for some kind of divine intervention – intervene within.

        But even so, “We’re fools to the rules of a government plan” — and at this point the “government plan” in question seems to be more “Shadow Government” (the “Illuminati”) than any elected government.  Is that what TFF meant?  Maybe, maybe not (although the video does show the Masonic/Illuminati symbol of the All-Seeing Eye atop the Pyramid), but let’s read it that way.  And if we do, and guided by Love, we have to stop these poor misguided souls with agendas of malicious intent.

        No worries, though, no problem.  Omnia Vincit Amor — Love Conquers All.  Don’t you know?

         So tune into the Love.  And your Eartheart?  Turn it up.

 

 

    ”There is enough for everyone’s need, but not for everyone’s greed.”  ~ Gandhi