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# Life Advice from Underground Resistance & Marcus Aurelius
- URL: https://www.howardgray.net/life-advice-from-underground-resistance-marcus-aurelius/
- Published: 2018-11-25T23:01:34.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-24T18:20:55.000Z
- Author: Howard Gray
- Tags: Stage Left, Electronic Music, Mindsets & Growth, Howard's Riffs, Learning, Education & Growth

The DJ Lee Burridge posted [this epic 5+ hour mix](https://soundcloud.com/leeburridge/lee-burridge-requiem-for-a-daydream-full-program?ref=howardgray.net) on his Soundcloud page a little while ago.

Like many good DJ sets, there are a few purple patches where a sequence of tracks come together that make the listener feel they were created exactly that way.

Part of the joy and skill of putting tracks in the mix is that it’s possible to make the weird wonderful, the wonderful weird, average good, the good great, the great… even better.

One of these sweet spots is around the 1hr 40 mark, where a re-edit of a Nils Frahm track is overlaid with the acapella of Underground Resistance’s classic track ‘Transitions’.

Listening to this in my office one afternoon (as opposed to the Tibet mountain that Lee suggests), the ‘Transitions’ lyrics struck a chord, especially as I’m currently reading Marcus Aurelius’ incredible book ‘Meditations’.

One of the magical things about music is you can listen to a track 10,20 or 100 times, and then in a particular place, space, time or mood it’ll suddenly take on a completely different form. That happened this time.

On face value these words may sound a little corny, but for those of us who are trying to instigate change, figure out our next moves, break through a barrier, or make some other kind of transition, it’s probably not a bad idea to heed the words of some of Detroit’s finest electronic music producers.

Ancient Roman stoicism is optional.

[\> Lee Burridge Requiem for a Daydream Mix](https://soundcloud.com/leeburridge/lee-burridge-requiem-for-a-daydream-full-program?ref=howardgray.net)

[\> Underground Resistance ‘Transitions’](https://soundcloud.com/undergroundresistance/transition-accapella?ref=howardgray.net)

Lyrics:

*There will come a time to your life* 
*When you ask yourself a series of questions* 
*Am I happy with who I am* 
*Am I happy with the people around* 
*Am I happy with what I am doing* 
*Am I happy with the way my life is going* 
*Do I have a life* 
*Or am I just living*

*Do not let these questions restrain or trouble you* 
*Just point yourself in the direction of your dreams* 
*Find your strength from the sound* 
*And make your transition* 
*Make your transition*

*Do I spend too much time thinking* 
*And not enough doing* 
*Did I try my hardest at any of my dreams* 
*Did I purposely let others discourage me when I knew I could* 
*Will I die never knowing what I could have been or could have done*

*Do not let these questions restrain or trouble you* 
*Just point yourself in the direction of your dreams* 
*Find your strength in the sound* 
*And make your transition* 
*Make your transition*

*There will be people who will say you can’t* 
*But you will (you will)* 
*There will be people who will say you don’t mix this with that* 
*And you will say watch me (watch me)* 
*There will be people who will say play it safe, that’s too risky* 
*And you will take that chance and have no fear (no fear)*

*Do not let these questions restrain or trouble you* 
*Just point yourself in the direction of your dreams* 
*Find your strength in the sound* 
*And make your transition* 
*Make your transition*

*For those who know* 
*It’s time to leave the house* 
*And go back to the field* 
*Find your strength in the sound* 
*It’s what you gotta do in the first f-cking place*