TALL
A song for my daughter, who is the love of my life, and my kick in the ass.
Hell, we’ve all got baggage. History. I’ve struggled with myself. But
we are more than the sum of our parts. I guess we can either pass on
our baggage to the next generation and perpetuate it, or we can have
the guts to say “Nope, not my child, the buck stops here”. Get over
yourself, and love. It’s work. Best job you’ll ever have. And it’s a
great cure for small man complex!
You can grow something that’s better than you
‘Cause one and one ain’t always two
So you better start planting and feeding that tree
So when it’s grows up it’ll be tall and free
From everything you once believed that you couldn’t
The things that were not safe, not proper, not prudent
But who’s to say what life you should or you shouldn’t?
The best things in life are set free
And that’s how one and one become three
Ah you can take
Everything they make you take and
You can buy
Everything sold with a lie but
You don’t need
Much more than a mustard seed
And a little faith and love to make it grow
And where it grows, you never really know
But there you go
There you go
You don’t need a diet or fancy regime
Don’t need to cut out the cookies and cream
Just put in the good stuff and take out the crap
And you’ll grow a tree from what once was a sap
From something so small she’s become so much bigger
I never was tall, so you can go figure
But someone made my life a hundred times better
When she made me look beyond me
And that’s how one and one become three
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Ah you can take
Everything they make you take and
You can buy
Everything sold with a lie but
You don’t need
Much more than a mustard seed
And a little faith and love to make it grow
And where it grows, you never really know
But there you go
There you go
You can grow something that’s better than you
‘Cause one and one ain’t always two
So you better start planting and feeding that tree
So when it’s grows up it’ll be tall and free
From everything you once were trapped by
The people that you once were slapped by
But who’s to say you can’t put that by
The best things in life are set free
And that’s how one and one become three
Ah you can take
Everything they make you take and
You can buy
Everything sold with a lie but
You don’t need
Much more than a mustard seed
And a little faith and love to make it grow
And where it grows, you never really know
So there you go....there you go……
There you go..... there you go……