[Verse 1] We count our children like a shield, Against the dark of open field. We feed the fear with second names, We stack our lives in crowded frames. [Pre-Chorus] I laughed at growth without a plan, Then craved a future in my hand. [Chorus] Multiply, fear of ending dressed as faith, Multiply, the math that love can’t calculate. Multiply, the world grows thin and wide, I hold a seed and tremble inside. [Verse 2] We call it hope, we call it right, To flood the night with borrowed light. I want a small enough to care, A garden we can both repair. [Pre-Chorus] A slower yes, a braver no, A gentler path where fewer go. [Chorus] Multiply, fear of ending dressed as faith, Multiply, the math that love can’t calculate. Multiply, the world grows thin and wide, I hold a seed and tremble inside. [Verse 3] The city hums with newborn fears, Each cradle built on unpaid years. We breed because we can’t refrain, From proving life escapes the chain. [Instrumental] [Sixteen bars of guitar and tom runs.] [Bridge] Not less of love, just less of waste, A kinder speed, a humbler taste. We’ll bless the child and spare the flame, And learn to give without a claim. [Bridge 2] I am the crowd I criticize, A mirror made of lullabies. If growth must come, let meaning lead, One soul worth more than what we breed. [Chorus – final] Multiply, rewrite the creed tonight, Divide the fear, combine the light. Multiply, by mercy, not by rule, A fertile heart, a mindful fool.
