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It Never Ceases to Amaze Me

from Is That You? by Lewis Mullen

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I like the phrase “it never ceases to amaze me” because it can be said in exasperation (“It never ceases to amaze me that people don’t social distance during a pandemic”) or as a statement of beginners mind (“The world and everything in it never ceases to amaze me. Each moment is like the first moment”). This song is meant to be ambivalent between these two resonances

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It never ceases to amaze me
It never ceases to amaze me

How people can believe
In the tales that the tellers weave
Pulling rabbits out their sleeve

And if they act as one
They can get anything begun
Though the boulders weigh a tonne

It never ceases to amaze me
It never ceases to amaze me

How hate can stir the pot
And that brew makes your insides rot
Yet the recipe’s still taught

In schools throughout the land
‘Til someone makes a stand
And that evil soup gets canned

It never ceases to amaze me
It never ceases to amaze me

It never ceases to amaze me
It never ceases to amaze me

How flow’rs defy defeat
In the cracks in the hard concrete
Under pounding rush-hour feet

And when they sight the sky
Someone picks them and they die
Still they never cease to try and

It never ceases to amaze me
It never ceases to amaze me
It never ceases to amaze me
It never ceases to amaze me

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from Is That You?, released August 22, 2020
Lewis Mullen feat. Laura Macfarlane

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Lewis Mullen Glasgow, UK

I write the kind of music I'd like to listen to, and I hope you enjoy listening to it to. It's a window into a slightly different world that's a more honest mirror of our own

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