Time to Relax - Akala

This ain’t a song, it’s more like a note to self

A reminder to me that I need balance

‘cause I’m always working, plannin' projects and preppin'

Stressin' over the state of this world and how we affect it

This is part of the gift, the energy that I’m blessed with

But if you overuse them, then you will blunt your own weapons

How ever much you train, muscles only grow when you rest ‘em

Yet I don’t make enough time to stop and pause for reflection

Go and check my mum, talk about nothing much

On a sunny day, sit in the park, stare at the sun

Feed the ducks, ride a bike, shit sit in a tree

Anything to escape the stress that the city will breed

Lucky enough, that what I love is my livin'

I know that that’s rare so chillin' just feels like sinnin'

But it’s not, take your time, you ain’t gotta say sorry

If you’re always exhausted, you can’t help anybody

Through all the work and the wages, bills and the tax

Through all the stress and the payments and the

Through all the loss and the gain and the pain we attach

Through all the stress and the strain that came with the facts

We gotta kick back, make time to relax

Gotta kick back, make time to relax

Gotta kick back, make time to relax

Kick back, make time to relax

You’re not paranoid, things really are designed

To offer you absolutely no peace of mind

Maybe that’s the price to be paid ‘cause we’re complicit in suffering all over

this world that we are living in

Cars and the clothes, everything we consume

Still painted in the suffering of colourful hues

So we’re tainted by the nothingness of what we’ll choose

But overwhelmed by the lack of change if we refuse

So we all watch the so called news

And see their views of a bunch of mass murderers paraded as true

Enough to turn anything in person to a lunatic

Maybe thats what we already are ‘cause we are used to it

But in the midst of all this

There’s a bliss that you’re missing

Silent moments, one that you love quietly kissin'

Starin' at the stars, realising that ours is just a world among billions of

worlds that we’ll never know

Just take a moment to breathe, is what I’m sayin'

Breathe deep till the air in your chest is all the way in

Let it out slowly, feel the tension erodin'

Listen to the music before you compose it

Just take a moment to breathe and take stock

You ain’t that important, wars will not stop if you do not

But health and longevity depends on balance between yin and yang

And so far I just haven’t

Made enough time to breathe and just chill

Keep still

They ain’t lyin' when they say stress kills

So breathe before you punch someone in the mouth

Breathe deep before you push out and tear down the house

Breathe before you hurt yourself and your health

Maybe cliché but it really is our true source of wealth

Breathe — essence of life and of the universe

We’ve done it from birth yet we doubt that it really works