Be Here Now
Words & Music by Shimshai
You don’t have to be this & you don’t have to be that now
Just be, for Iternity
You don’t have to do this & you don’t have to do that now
Just do whatever happens to be
You don’t have to think this & you don’t have to think that now
Don’t think, but do it consciously
You don’t have to love this & you don’t have to love that now
Just love, for Iternity
Even out & open up…
You’re trapped by desire in paradise
A fragile mind, disillusioned by material dreams
Remember Zion is the only true paradise
Seek to find, & rejoice immaterially
For Zion is all, Zion is ever, Zion is here, Zion is now
JAH JAH is all I say JAH JAH is ever
JAH is here, JAH JAH is now
So Be Here Now
Lift up your consciousness, raise the I level
Lift up your consciousness
Lift up your awareness, to a higher level
Lift up your consciousness
& More conscious is the I, higher the I is
& higher is the I the closer is the I to JAH
For JAH JAH is all, JAH JAH is ever
JAH JAH is here, JAH JAH is now
& Zion is all, holy Zion is ever
As I am right here, I am right now
So Be Here Now...
& You don’t have to be this & you don’t have to be that now
Just be, for Iternity
You don’t have to do this & you don’t have to do that now
Just do whatever happens to be
You don’t have to think this & you don’t have to think that now
Don’t think, but do it consciously
You don’t have to love this & you don’t have to love that now
Just love, for Iternity
Be Here Now
This is perhaps one of my earliest songs that I still sing regularly to this day. My father gave me a copy of the Ram Dass book 'Be Here Now' around age 16 or 17 as I was really getting into a spiritual path. I resonated with the writings immediately and the song followed soon after. We had the opportunity in the early 2000's to play this song live with Ram Dass himself present on stage, what an honor!