am0eba - GROWN

About the song:

This one comes from a time when I was trying to convince myself I could write an intelligent lyric - and pull off a vocal performance that supported it... The growly organic sounds come from Reason's Malstrom graintable synth, and the backwards drum sounds come from BT's (Brian Transeau - go listen to him right now if you haven't heard of him) loop samples CD. Another philosophical treatise...
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"...and yet you take that leap of faith
beyond the rational
and fly off unsupported
rising upward as you will..."








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Lyrics:
Grown

You never know
You never know
You never know
You only grow

And when you try to find
the way to how you want to be
And when the path to take
is far from clear and hard to see
You'll find the situation
nullifying expectation
You're finally forced to face
the truth of your uncertainty

You've grown

You plant a seed: a thought; a notion how it ought to be
That seed takes root and germinates
and then turns out to be
a frame of mind or maybe a complete philosophy
becomes the basic structure forming your integrity

Your life experiences shape the way you fail to see
Impending difficulties forming storms upon the sea
and yet you take that leap of faith beyond the rational
and fly off, unsupported, rising upward as you will

You've grown

All the things you think you know
All the words you've learned to say
Will fail to serve you somehow
Will force your eyes to see another way

You never know
You never know
You never know
You only grow



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