THE TIME OF LOVE

"Light up your face
With all the love within you
Say your word
Make it heard

Light up the wind
With all the kings inside you
Shout it out
Have no doubts
For the time of love is now

Light up your head
With things the children said child
Make a start
From your heart

Light up the world
With poems from within you
Shout it out
Have no doubts
For the time of love is now

And your days of love
Are always in a dream
You know."
                         Marc Bolan - T.Rex (Brown Album)

One of Marc Bolan's finest epistles from T.REX (the brown album). A direct
and bold statement, this song speaks truth and wisdom so clearly it makes it
a major chapter in Marc Bolan's legacy.

"Light up your face
With all the love within you
Say your word
Make it heard"

No hesitation whatsoever. Immediately, Marc Bolan adresses the listeners
personally and recognizes the inner power of the soul and the uniqueness of
all living entities. But first of all, Marc states an all-important condition: 'with all the love within you'. This cannot be taken lightly - it is the ultimate condition to allow the soul to 'say your word, make it heard'. Or else, what in the world could really be worthwhile enough to be expressed?

"Light up the wind
With all the kings inside you
Shout it out
Have no doubts
For the time of love is now"

We've seen in Bhagavad-Gita that the wind has been used to illustrate how the mind is impossible to control; here Marc Bolan dares to summon us to 'light up the wind' and shows us the way: 'with all the kings inside you'. This isn't just poetry. He definitely tells us the power is within ourselves. An ideal king is powerful and wise, a king rules with wisdom. So Marc asks us to gather our strength and wisdom to aim at the impossible, 'light up the wind'. Then and only then will we be able to 'shout it out' in certainty. Moreover, Marc stresses: 'have no doubts for the time of love is now', totally in line with the Eastern philosophy and knowledge of 'be here now' and the all-powerful unconditional love.

"Light up your head
With things the children said child
Make a start
From your heart"

As to make sure we will understand and thus avoid social reasoning and
pre-conceived ideas of all kinds, Marcs suggests that we should first free
our mind from all misconceptions, so we could recover our original innocence:
'make a start from your heart'.

"Light up the world
With poems from within you
Shout it out
Have no doubts
For the time of love is now''

At the beginning of the Liverpool Oratorio, Paul McCartney quotes a Latin
sentence: 'Not for ourselves, but for the whole world were we born', the Liverpool Institute's motto. Here Marc Bolan gives a similar advice: 'Light up the world with poems from within you', nothing less. A human being has a duty, a 'dharma', and this duty must take roots deep within oneself where lies the eternal truth. And in all certainty, one must 'shout it out' to the world. Once again, Marc Bolan asks us to be fixed in our beliefs and to have faith in love.

"And your days of love
Are always in a dream
You know."

Some may be mistaken here with this verse as if this whole song was only a dream; as if Marc Bolan wanted to end this epistle with a clever poetical formula. In fact, Marc Bolan dares to address the living entity boldly by reminding men that most of their life is spent dreaming of things gone by or desires to be fulfilled in a near future. 'And your days of love Are always in a dream You know.' You may think you know what love is all about because you have a girlfriend, a boyfriend, a family; but this is just a dream. You must now wake up to a higher dimension, a higher love - unconditional love for the whole world, each and every living entity. Say your word, make it heard. No more sleepy egoistic way of life. Light up the world for the time of love is NOW. Do your part to make this world a better place for everyone. Be a leader, a guide for your brothers and sisters. Have no doubts…