[male vocal only] Baby you... [Male vocal only] You are like that rose in the crack of concrete You grow where you shouldn’t Where science says you couldn’t You still stand firm in your stem beautiful Amongst the desolate n miserable You are the beautiful red in a sea of grey [Male Vocal only] So you grow taller n stronger n more beautiful then the group who only grow with the rest - you chose to be placed where your beauty could grow best - [[HOOK – intimate female alto, instantly catchy rising melody] [drums soften, warm chords open, layered harmonies bloom] Red in the grey Still I remain Beauty didn’t save me I grew through the pain No garden above me No mercy below [melody rises and suspends] Just watch me... [psychedelic 808 bloom] GROW... [Male Vocal only] So that crack in the concrete on the side of the street -never knew it would grow with the feat to defeat all that’s terrible -and destructive for if the broken pieces could grow such a uniques species -that a flaw could lend such beauty a spring thaw - then maybe it’s not a flaw after all - beauty from the crack of the concrete -on the street by your feet to defeat that inner thought of Desire you can’t seem to beat - [Psychedelic Breakdown - reversed vocal trails, detuned synth bends] [Chopped male fragments][male only] Not a flaw… Not a flaw… Beauty from the crack… [Female Response, beat reduced to heartbeat and sub] [female only] You see the rose But you don’t see the roots [female only] You see what survived Not what I lived through [female only] I wasn’t placed here I pushed through alone [female only] The crack didn’t make me I split the stone [female only] But when you call me beautiful Something in me believes [female only] Maybe quiet power Is what survival leeeeaves [Male Vocal only] That you are beautiful - you are full- meaningful- meant to be something suspenseful, nor terrible or dreadful just beautiful as you are- Standing there I see you beauty from afar- your stem strong lady long - petals red n bountiful - the sun shining down growing you into something beautiful - [[HOOK – intimate female alto, instantly catchy rising melody] [drums soften, warm chords open, layered harmonies bloom] Red in the grey Still I remain Beauty didn’t save me I grew through the pain No garden above me No mercy below [melody rises and suspends] Just watch me... [psychedelic 808 bloom] GROW... [Male only] So beauty from the street beauty in the crack of the concrete - a flower with a quiet power !! Nothing more beautiful than that !
