Biography

Lyrics

Movement I — Becoming

Born plump of earth and water
Feed me mother, save me father
Feelings first, before the symbols
Joy and hunger intermingled

I run and shout and scrape my knees
Make up gods and enemies
Play beneath the covers late
Learn what love will tolerate

Patterns pour from upstream lives
Culture shapes the way I try
I stretch until the stitching strains
Dreams arrive with hidden chains

Refrain (first appearance)
Everything begins
Everything will end

Movement II — Overreach & Fracture

I make my way on borrowed nerve
Confidence I never earned
Test the weight of all I'm worth
On women, wins, and trouble first

I travel far to taste the world
Mind expands, heart overfilled
Cross a line I couldn't see
Bring a future home with me

Grow up fast, show up scared
Start pretending I'm prepared
Build a life from grit and show
Then watch the center split and go

Loss arrives in quiet waves
Brothers age, some don't get saved
I'm eight verses deep in time
Still convinced there's more to find

Refrain (second appearance)
Everything begins
Everything will end

Movement III — Stewardship

My babies stand as grown-up men
My father role dissolves again
What once defined me loosens grip
Another ending showing up

New babies crying without sound
A house, a ledger, solid ground
A business breathing through my chest
A team that needs my clearest yes

A kitten learning where to land
My body breaking as I stand
I pull away from teacher, friend
To give myself where I am spent

The strain is love I couldn't fake
The cost is real, the choice I make
Art appears where pressure stayed
Doors open once the work is paid

Refrain (third appearance, altered)
Everything begins
Everything must end

Movement IV — Return

Investment made in skill and bone
Final miles I walk alone
Not away, but inward now
A different territory found

No separation left to mend
No self to save, no role to defend
Awareness as the place I rest
A quieter and deeper yes

Reverence for those who showed the way
Gratitude without delay
I serve the ones who stand in reach
The human lesson still to teach

Final Refrain (last appearance, settled)
Everything begins
Everything ends

Outro (spoken or barely sung)
And still…
We live.

Interpretation

A four-movement arc of a life. Movement I traces becoming—birth, childhood play, cultural inheritance, and the first stirrings of constraint within dreams. Movement II charts overreach and fracture—borrowed confidence, travel, consequence, loss of brothers, and the stubborn sense that something remains unfound. Movement III turns toward stewardship—grown sons, new babies, business, the body breaking, art emerging from sustained pressure. Movement IV arrives at return—inward territory, no separation left to mend, gratitude, and service as the quieter yes. The refrain evolves across movements: from observation ("Everything begins / Everything will end") to acceptance ("Everything must end") to settled presence ("Everything begins / Everything ends"). The outro lands simply: "And still… we live." Emotional arc: emergence → experimentation → rupture → responsibility → release → return.