Keep Growing Up (produced by Fredo)

from Around the Bend by Plainspoke

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lyrics

I lay in bed
trying to describe the way I said it
Lying through my teeth, but I don't regret it
It's time to see the world for what it be
But I'm just a baby, stumbling over my a-b-c's
And maybe, someday I'll be able to reach
that high shelf, when I can really speak
for myself, until then I'll find help
working out my mind, disabling my blinders
opening up to some new kind of rhyme words
Able enough to stand on one foot
and hobble my way up to having done good
I would if I could but
I don't make compromises
I just take all of it and weigh the different sizes
Fall a bit, find my way disguises the walls as quit
So I climb over the eyelids, finding patterns in the blind bliss
While I dive in, the time slips, and days and weeks
become waiting patiently for a fading vacancy
I aim to please but end up hating these

I measure myself up to others
pull it down, pull it down
I need this to keep growing
keep growing up
pull it down, pull it down
I need this to keep growing
keep growing up
growing up

on a bench, sitting on a corner
step into traffic and give up my life for lent
nothing out of order
I'm not catholic or christian, jewish or buddhist
islam ain't my business, but all religion, I boot it
tuning my soul to the right frequency, I can fail and win
back on the train again, after I fell off the road that came and went
I was thorow for a bit then raymond with his shaving kit
taking all the music, looking for that fabled kiss
and losing pace with all the kids that label this
as gay, but it doesn't phase me
'cause every dozen tracks, I come up with one that's sort of okay
it gets the plays, lately
and for that, I keep going, moving forward and back
hoping that this rhyme I write
won't be my last

I measure myself up to others
pull it down, pull it down
I need this to keep growing
keep growing up
pull it down, pull it down
I need this to keep growing
keep growing up
growing up