Despite Concrete Lyrics

Look where you're planted. Did they know you'd be essential?

Look where you rise up even with the odds against you

A force in the morning bringing up the people with you

With the work that you put in caring for and bearing of fruits

They will grow, despite concrete

They will grow, despite concrete

You pushed on the pavement, singing songs and talking to screens;

You rise through the ceiling like hot air if the basement had heat

You lift from the mattress: singular and worn out and shared

You still put a pin up in a cork board of goals and your hair

You will grow, despite concrete

You will grow, despite concrete

You've been beaten backwards by lovers and teachers and luck

Had branches clipped off, felt so insurmountably stuck

Chronic conditions: biological or product of fate

It makes you feel so small when you're growing whole years in a day

Still you grow, despite concrete

Still you grow, despite concrete

When babies are blossomed they sag you far down with their weight

And fathers are far off or tired from their work the next day

But you don't get time off when standing up is work in itself

You've never been helpless, you just weren't given the help

But you grow, despite concrete

But you grow, despite concrete

I see in the future when I'm standing up under your shade

The wind that can knock me down only ever gets you to sway

I say what you taught me when you thought of and bought me the book about a house on a street

I say it for who grew despite concrete

Despite concrete

I will grow, despite concrete

I will grow, despite concrete

I will grow, despite concrete

I will grow, despite concrete

I will grow, despite concrete

I will grow, despite concrete

I will grow, despite concrete