Growth Rings

Intro

Yeah

Rings on rings

They don't know what's coming

Chorus

Comfort got 'em sleeping, they don't know the cost

Order is a fishbowl, everything is lost

Stagnation in the water, swimming in the frost

Only in the complex do I ever grow exhaust

Verse 1

Fifty thousand conversations, I documented the proof

Coaching interactions showing me the brutal truth

Predictable means perish, that's the dangerous part

Same routine, same dreams, same broken heart

TEDx stage, talking 'bout the rings

Bill told 'em safety is the devil wearing angel wings

They want the guaranteed, the path already paved

But everything that's great was born inside a cave

Pre-Chorus

Chaos or the order, which one do you choose?

One will make you comfortable, one will make you lose

Chorus

Comfort got 'em sleeping, they don't know the cost

Order is a fishbowl, everything is lost

Stagnation in the water, swimming in the frost

Only in the complex do I ever grow exhaust

Verse 2

Forced into the fire when the pink slip hit

Assisted by the coach when my spirit split

Self-triggered like Claudette on that Montgomery bus

Wouldn't give the seat up, wouldn't bend to us

Three ways to the ring where the outcome's unknown

Growth don't live in buildings, growth lives in the bone

I stepped out the bubble where the water got still

Now I'm running through the wilderness against my own will

Pre-Chorus

Chaos or the order, which one do you choose?

One will make you comfortable, one will make you lose

Chorus

Comfort got 'em sleeping, they don't know the cost

Order is a fishbowl, everything is lost

Stagnation in the water, swimming in the frost

Only in the complex do I ever grow exhaust

Bridge

They fear the discomfort

I fear the cage

They pray for the stillness

I pray for the rage

Predictable is poison

Comfort is a chain

Ring... ring... ring...

Break it from the pain

Post-Chorus

Grow

Grow

Grow

Grow