Becoming

Intro - sung, building

You become. I become. We all become. Ahhhhuya!

Verse 1

I was comfortable, miserable, perfectly inflexible, [uh huh]

Sitting in the chair that my fear made respectable,

Had a plan on a napkin, a brand that was slacking,

A vision board cracking while my spine was collapsing, [oh my!]

Said I'd start when it's neat, when the beat finds its feet,

When the seat gets too hot and the street starts to speak,

But the heat never came so I lit my own flame,

And the shame became game became aim became name, [huzzah!]

I was stiff then I shifted, I drifted then lifted,

The gifted get twisted before they get enlisted,

I was frozen then chosen then broken wide open,

Every token I'm holding is golden and smoking. [yes!]

Chorus

Become, become, come undone, [hey!]

Become the one you're running from,

Become, become, it's just begun, [oh baby]

The drum, the hum, the sun, the sum,

You become, I become, we all become, Ahhhhuya! [that's right!]

You become, I become, we all become, Ahhhhuya!

Verse 2

Your customers are seekers, believers and reachers, [uh huh]

They walked in as creatures and walked out as teachers,

They didn't need a pitch or a stitch or a switch,

They needed you to ditch every glitch in the niche, [go on!]

They're itching to be flipping what you're giving into living,

They're swimming in the rhythm of the mission you've been scripting,

You sold them a beginning dressed up as an ending,

A bending, a mending, a trending, ascending, [ooh!]

They came in with a limp and you gave them a leap,

They came shallow and you showed them the deep,

They came sleeping and you gave them the drum,

Now they're drumming and becoming and they're coming undone. [yes!]

Chorus

Become, become, come undone, [hey!]

Become the one you're running from,

Become, become, it's just begun, [oh baby]

The drum, the hum, the sun, the sum,

You become, I become, we all become, Ahhhhuya! [that's right!]

You become, I become, we all become, Ahhhhuya!

Bridge - spoken, dripping sarcasm, over wooden bounce percussion

Oh you thought you'd arrive?

Ribbon and a cake?

A little certificate that says congratulations,

you're finally the person you were pretending to be at brunch?

No.

You just wake up one Tuesday,

and the fear is quieter than it used to be.

That's the whole graduation. [huh]

Verse 3

I became what I mocked, what I blocked, what I locked, [oh my!]

What I clocked but never rocked, what I stocked but never swapped,

My customers became the untamed and unclaimed,

The ones who came inflamed and left reframed and unashamed, [yes!]

They said who will I be, I said we'll see, let it breathe,

Let the seed find the need, let the greed turn to creed,

We're unbecoming all the armor, all the drama, all the karma,

Every comma in the trauma getting calmer, getting larger, [go on!]

And the beat is a sundrum and the drum is a pulse,

And the pulse is the impulse of the adults and the cult,

Of the ones brave enough to show up looking dumb,

Looking numb, looking crumb, looking come undone. [huzzah!]

Final Chorus

Become, become, come undone, [hey!]

Become the one who finally won,

Become, become, it's just begun, [oh baby]

The drum, the hum, the sun, the sum,

You become, I become, we all become, Ahhhhuya! [that's right!]

You become, I become, we all become, Ahhhhuya!

Outro - handpan alone, soft

You become. I become.

We all become.

Ahhhhuya.