Better Not To Know

Album: How Mercy Looks From Here (2013)
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  • We sowed our seeds
    Watered with tears
    Waiting for signs of growth
    Took months of days
    And then took years.

    We took our steps
    We took our falls
    Somewhere along the way
    We just got lost
    And we lost it all.

    But nothing ventured, nothing gained
    The risk of living is the pain
    And what will be will be anyway

    Oh, it's better not to know
    The way it's gonna go
    What will die and what will grow.
    Goodbye more than hello
    It's better not to know

    Those tiny stems became these trees
    With dirt and storm
    And sun and air to breathe
    Like you and me.

    And some fell down
    And some grew tall
    And those surviving twenty winter thaws
    Have the sweetest fruit of all.

    But innocence and planting day
    Are both long gone
    So much has changed
    And if we had to do it all again

    Oh, it's better not to know
    The way it's gonna go
    What will die and what will grow.
    Oh, nothing stays the same
    Life flickers like a flame,
    As the seasons come and go
    Goodbye more than hello
    It's better not to know

    Is it better, better not to know?
    Is it better, (is it better), is it better?

    We sowed our seeds
    Watered with tears

    Oh, it's better not to know
    The way it's gonna go
    What will die and what will grow.
    Oh, nothing stays the same
    Life flickers like a flame,
    As the seasons come and go
    Goodbye more than hello
    What comes of what we sow
    It's better not to know
    It's better not to know

    We sowed our seeds
    Watered with tears Writer/s: AMY GRANT, CINDY MORGAN, JEREMY BOSE, MARSHALL ALTMAN
    Publisher: CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, ESSENTIAL MUSIC PUBLISHING, MUSIC SERVICES, INC.
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