Give (feat. Darek Sojka)

A song about parenting; about giving, loving, sharing – it’s all about the same thing. Written for our wonderful daughter.

Featuring Darek Sojka, who not only mixed, mastered and produced the song, but also kindly donated a part of his Americana soul implanted via the stylish resonator guitar.

https://witekkulczycki.bandcamp.com/track/give-feat-darek-sojka

Lyrics:

Though we look in different directions
we are always in each other’s sight
gathered round the fire
wrestling through the night
with our shadows in a ring
that crowns our crossroads crucified
as the fallen withered boughs
bloom with flames, one last time alive

as they’re
getting bright and brittle
round like river pebbles
more and more alike
clinging tight together
making bed of embers
for the new light to shine
turning grey, becoming one
with the fertile ground

and I know that
to give I have to want
to give I need to have
to share that gift I got
to keep though never asked
for it
to live I need to feel
to live I need to love
that light that always will
go on if shared enough.

Still I wonder
how to clear the way
in your way not to stand
How to hold you by the hand
not making your hands tied
How to help with every step you take
not slowing you down
How to look away
when there in the mirror
I can see you in my eyes.

Before I turn to marble
grow silent as you grow up
into your wildest dreams
I want you to know yourself
so when you find that love for which
all world you could forget
don’t be afraid to give it all
there’s so much more you’ll get

just enough
but to give you have to want
to give you need to have
to share that gift you got
to keep though never asked
for it
to live you need to feel
to live we need to love
that light that always will
go on if shared enough.

Life is not unfair or fair
neither wants nor doesn’t want
It neither cares nor doesn’t care
cause things like life just don’t
It’s us who can and should be fair
no matter what we believe in
it just makes sense to care
for everything we share
give back as we were given

but
to give we have to want
to give we need to have
to share the gift we got to keep
though never asked
for it
to live we need to feel
to live we need to love
that light that always will
go on if shared enough.

that light that never will
be gone if shared enough.