Growing Apart - Emily Hackett

Where are we going? Why are we slowing down? Where are you going? We should be growing now (Smoke to it, nigga, smoke to it, nigga) Where are we going? We should be slowing down Where are you going? We should be growing now That's what she said to me That place I used to call home is just a bed to me And we don't even sleep, neighbors can hear her weep Meanwhile, I'm in these streets with everybody I'm tryna get it and she know they got me I watch her feelings watch me As they staring with the saddest eyes of loneliness Look each other in the face and barely blink I tried to make it right, but the pen ran out of ink So if my letters don't reach you, I hope these lyrics in sync Where are we going? Why are we slowing down? Where are you going? We should be growing now That's what it said to me But the place I call ambition now dead to me Gone and forgotten, I'm off track like Dale Earnhardt, my liver rotten Alcoholic tripping, fucking bad bitches and they got bad intentions Club night, guys and dolls Balling out, but I'm 'bout to drop the ball I'm calling out for help, my engineer called Told me "Come to the studio", I wanna tell him "Nah" Where are we going? Why are we slowing down? Where are you going? We should be growing now That's what he said to me But that place we call Heaven unfair to me Only 144 can go Seven billion people on planet Earth today Is there something that I don't know? I know to follow Him rather following people Or follow vanity 'cause that means I'm following evil Guess, I'm following evil, I should follow cathedral Blessings I need but live like I don't need you Where are we going? Why are we slowing down? Where are you going? We should be growing now So in conclusion, we all seem to stumble, planning our own demise Forgetting the big picture and making it wallet size So to what's important in my life, I apologize I promise to stay faithful, focused and sanctified We all get distracted, the question is would you bounce back or bounce backwards? Would you not know how to act or take action? It's just a part of life And if your vision's impaired, you probably lose it all tonight I'm trying to visualize how to get it right, but my vision's so blurry Trying to slow it down, stay close to the ground, but we're always in a hurry, now And if I could make this world spin a little slower, then I would Then we could grow a little closer, I think we're getting closer I think we're getting closer

Pick up your guitar And sing me a song This was groover's paradise Now the groover is gone Was a cool little city But time marches on Growing Growing Gone Hold up your shovels They're plated in gold We're breaking new ground today Hear the bull-dozers roll Smile for the camera With your sunglasses on Growing growing gone Cranes on the skyline Popping up through the trees Grackles on the tables Vultures on the breeze You just can't buy cool Straight off the rack Once the music's over It ain't coming back Pick up your guitar And I'll throw you a five How do you do it, man? I don't know how you survive So many people and it won't be too long Growing growing gone But if you can't cut it here I guess you'll have to move on Growing growing gone

You used to say 'the world is changing, while we're not' Time passing too fast - You fought If we run any faster now, we'll lose all we got At least that's what you thought The world is still changing - now so am I I was asking - again and again "Where you at? Where? You seem lost in there" But you were no longer in there You vanished like fog through the air I might have whispered "catch me if you can" Oh man, I was hanging in a liana Oh oh oh A while back I started dying I was slowly dying over a two year's time Sometimes you tried to hold on Sometimes you just let go Last year you were a fetus in the void Last year you were born You got up on your feet, felt incomplete Sometimes you stumbled, sometimes you fell Cause this is not life's parallel Luckily, I've been a human before But I'm still not sure what we came here for I might have whispered "catch me if you can" Oh man, I was hanging in a liana Oh oh oh Oh man, I was hanging in a liana I might have whispered "catch me if you can" Oh man, I was hanging in a liana But only to get over to somewhere else Somewhere else than...?

On a plane back from Paris Stayed awake out the window staring The clouds were draped in shades of indigo I thought about us going down And if the dark would spit us out Or take us to another world below I'm trying on the optimist And I kinda like the way it fits Who cares Better when it's happens Out of nowhere I like to imagine that it's right there In the pocket of my jacket Trying to make a habit Of making room for magic Put the tickets on the credit card Five days before departure and Landed on our anniversary I felt the universe On the stairs of Sacre Coeur She was everything I dreamed that she would be We were s'posed to be here years ago But she knew we needed time to grow Who cares Better when it's happens Out of nowhere I like to imagine that it's right there In the pocket of my jacket Trying to make a habit Of making room for magic

Holy mother of God You've got to go faster than that to get to the top Dirty old mountain all covered in smoke She can turn you to stone so you better start doing it right Better start doing it right You're halfway up and you're halfway down And the pack on your back is turning you around Throw it away, you won't need it up there And remember, you don't look back whatever you do Better start doing it right On your left and on your right Crosses are green and crosses are blue Your friends didn't make it through Out of the night and out of the dark Into the fire and into the fight Well, that's the way the heroes go HO! HO! HO! Through a crack in Mother Earth Blazing hot, the molten rock Spills out over the land And the lava's the lover who licks your boots away HEY! HEY! HEY! If you don't want to boil as well B-B-Better start the dance D-D-Do you want to dance with me You better start doing it right The music's playing, the notes are right Put your left foot first and move into the light The edge of this hill is the edge of the world And if you're going to cross you better start doing it right Better start doing it right You better start doing it right LET THE DANCE BEGIN!