5. "Upside Down" by: Jack Johnson

5. "Upside Down" by: Jack Johnson

            This song by Jack Johnson expresses some ideas that are shared in Siddartha.  The following lyrics emphasize this:

“The world keeps spinning, and with each new day

I can feel a change in everything

And as the surfaces breaks the reflections fade

But in some ways they remain the same”

                  The lyrics are telling us that the world is ever changing, but there remains some continuous uniting factor keeps it monotonous.  When Siddartha observes the river and it speaks to him, he comes to a similar realization.  He notices that the river is always the river, but never the exact same river because it is ever flowing.  Both this song and the book express similar ideas dealing with an undercurrent of change.