Chill out, relax, look around and wonder….. Many things are out of your control. This jam has a Hindu Buddhism reincarnation feel to it.
[Verse 1: Nick Hexum]
A day like today is for you
To let your mind unwind like you ought to
Feel the earth turn ’round when your heartrate slows
Contemplating the thing only your heart knows
That life’s not a race
[Chorus: SA Martinez]
So hard to believe
Part of me will fade in the mystery
In a future world long ago
Part feels for your love
And lives to tell you so
[Verse 2: Nick Hexum]
The world whirls around your mind in a golden spiral
The natural way that things organize
You can’t stop entropy so why even try
Observe the conscious flow and don’t mystify
Life’s not a race
[Chorus: SA Martinez]
So hard to believe
Part of me will fade in the mystery
In a future world long ago
Part feels for your love
And lives to tell you so
[Bridge: Nick Hexum]
Slippin' into a trance, a chance encounter in the autumn
What do I see an opportunity and then, I got em’
Sought a chill-out mix to carve some space to make you wanna listen
It’s a bubblin’ spring and double in kings of this soundsystem
[Chorus: SA Martinez]
So hard to believe
Part of me will fade in the mystery
In a future world long ago
Part feels for your love
And lives to tell you so
[Outro: SA Martinez]
Do you see world without end, the rising sun my friend
Imagine cloudlike, you will form again
In the spacy boredom in the autumn of late afternoon
You are calm just like a sleepy room
[Instrumental Outro]
Life’s Not a Race was written by Doug “SA” Martinez & Tim Mahoney & Nick Hexum.
Life’s Not a Race was produced by Hugh Padgham & Scotch Ralston & 311.
311 released Life’s Not a Race on Tue Oct 12 1999.