This song answers the question posed in the first lyric of Songs for Grownups Volume 1. It tries to capture what music accomplishes for myself and why I feel compelled to keep doing it. Ris Gumpert features on electric guitar.
lyrics
Oh when the world spins round the sun
And when the moon spins round the world
And when the tides they rise and fall
And when the morning chorus calls
These are fundamental cycles of existence
You could hardly miss’em if you tried
And when the heart beats in the chest
And when the drummer beats their best
And when the strings are strummed in time
And when the voice comes home to rhyme
These are also the cycles of existence
That glorious cosmic rhythm in the sky
And when the people that you knew
Are gone for good and someday soon
Another heart will break in two
And you’re despondent through and through
This is the painful price we pay for existing
From the day we’re born ‘til the day we die
But when the hurt takes form in words
And when the rhythm finds its verse
And when your soul begins to merge
With all the cycles that you’ve heard
We find our truest and most vulnerable selves
woven into the fabric of reality
And that gives me a real sense of peace
Or at least of fundamental belonging.
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