[Chorus v1]
Unnecessary necessity
Survive to resurrect normality
My frivolous
[Verse 1]
My shop until drop Saturday consumerism
My natural world disconnection
Covid hair style wave good riddance
[Verse 2]
My keeping up with Joneses life, my superficial
My pint inside my favourite pub
My cosy social isolation
[Chorus v2]
Unnecessary necessity
Survive just to regress, lesson unlearn
Progress undo
[Verse 3]
My non-essential fundamental pet addictions
My blame-game playing parliamentary
Finger pointing politicians
[Chorus v3]
Unnecessary necessity
Survive just to resume my prejudice
Other dismiss
[Instrumental]
[Chorus v4]
Unnecessary necessity
Survive to keep alive my us and them
My might is right
[Verse 3]
Drop bomb on Palestine again in name of defence
Brand anti-semite who complain
Thank God for covid vaccination 😉
[Spoken word outro]
You can tell COVID’s on the back foot. The politicians are bickering again, ASBOs are on the rise, air pollution is back up, and the bombs are falling on Palestine. What are we so keen to return to? Today we may have a once-in-a-lifetime chance to massively reset what we consider important. Look sharp, that opportunity window is closing fast!
Waste not golden spiritual opportunities on the fool’s gold of material glitter. Where is the time for God if it is spent in constant fussing to satisfy the body’s wants for what I have termed “unnecessary necessities”? Rather simplify life and use that saved time in meditation for God-communion and real progress in attaining life’s necessary necessities of peace and happiness.
Paramahansa Yogananda
