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Anyone who knows me knows that I am head over heels obsessed with American Beauty, Kevin Spacey drama be damned. So I started thinking of inspirations from the film about halfway through writing these lyrics, and decided to pay homage in a bigger way. Some of the instrumental themes and progressions are inspired by the beautiful score Thomas Newman did for the film, which I incidentally listened to before ever seeing the actual movie.

Need to Remember

Divided

If there’s no beginning to wait for
Why do we carry on each day
Drenched in anxiety
A fragile fear based society

There is no beginning, I’m sure
When will we begin to overcome
To overcome this suffering, globally
Treat everyone and everything, nobly

The world is a great big place 
It’s open and it’s a wide
Pulled apart by race in 
Eachother we can’t confide     (We’re divided)
They say that change is the only constant 
But I’m still waitin’ on a clue, on a hint
If you don’t know what change is
What do you do?
The world doesn’t teach you  
You must teach yourself a thing or two 
You must teach yourself a thing or two
We must come together, yes, me and you

If there’s truly no end, and you’re sure just
Move on past the next bend, the next door
Yet you live your life in fear, as if
Things in the mirror are not, as they appear

There is truly no end (everything is wide open)
So just lend me your hand (and we can just keep hopin’)
Hopin’ that we turn this ship, around
Before we drive it into, the ground

The world is a great big place 
It’s open and  it’s wide
To the end it is a race
But mostly we just hide  The world is a great  big place 
It’s open and it’s wide (divide) we’re
Pulled apart by race 
In each other we can’t confide
To the end it is a race
But mostly we just hide (we’re divided)
 I don’t consider myself 
A religious man
I do have some questions
Listen if you can
Just as a thought experiment 
What if everything had no beginning and no end
In this philosophers, have put a dent, but
Now it’s a new day and we must invent
A new way of thinking 
Everything comes together beyond shadow beyond doubt

(We’re divided)
They say that change is the only constant 
But I’m still waitin’ on a clue, on a hint
If you don’t know what change is
What do you do?
The world doesn’t teach you  
You must teach yourself a thing or two 
You must teach yourself a thing or two
You must teach yourself everything it’s true
We must come together, yes, me and you

Divided

Small Things//Big Things

We are not constrained
By limits
Others set for us
We can do anything

Truth is found
When we let go
Of our fears
And treat ourselves 
With love

Make the small things happen
Let the big things happen 
Make the small things happen
Let the big things happen 

Why do we pretend
That we care
About things that
Don’t matter at all
Just to be well liked?

If we cut this shit 
We could do so much
More for each other 

Make the small things happen
Let the big things happen 
Make the small things happen
Let the big things happen

Small Things::Big Things

Brooklyn based drummer and composer, lover of all music.

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