Verse
Everybody’s running like the pavement’s on fire
Climbing broken ladders, getting higher and higher
Neon in the windows says you’re falling behind
So I turned off the noise just to hear my own mind
There’s a crack in the concrete, something pushing through
Tiny bit of green where nobody told it to
I stood there for a minute, had nowhere to go
Funny what you notice when you’re moving slow
Pre-Chorus
I don’t need tomorrow
Before today is done
I don’t need to chase it
I don’t need to run
Chorus
I wanna take some time
And watch the world grow
See the weeds break through
Where the cold winds blow
Let the seasons turn
Let the old streets know
I’m not going anywhere
I’m watching the world grow
Verse
Billboards keep screaming that I’m wasting my life
Buy another answer, sharpen another knife
Everybody’s measuring the distance they’ve gone
Nobody remembers what they stepped upon
There’s a bird on a wire and a kid in the rain
Someone painting flowers on the side of a train
The city keeps breathing underneath all the show
You can almost hear it when you’re willing to slow
Pre-Chorus
I don’t need the future
Delivered overnight
Some things only happen
When you give them time
Chorus
I wanna take some time
And watch the world grow
See the weeds break through
Where the cold winds blow
Let the seasons turn
Let the old streets know
I’m not going anywhere
I’m watching the world grow
Post-Chorus
Grow — through the cracks
Grow — and don’t look back
Grow — underneath the stone
Everything alive
Finds a way back home
Verse
Maybe I was guilty of believing the race
Thinking every second needed something in its place
Counting every heartbeat like a debt that I owed
Never seeing anything beside the road
Now the rust looks beautiful, the silence feels loud
There’s a strange kind of freedom disappearing from the crowd
You can keep your finish line, your numbers, your show
I found something better—
Watching everything grow
Bridge
Stand still
Long enough
And the whole damn world starts moving
Stand still
Long enough
And you see what you’ve been losing
Walls fall
Paint fades
Roots tear holes through everything we made
Time wins
Life knows
Nothing stays dead where the wild thing grows
Breakdown
No race
No prize
No clock staring back with mechanical eyes
No rush
No show
Just give me a lifetime
To watch it grow
Chorus
I wanna take some time
And watch the world grow
See the green come back
Where the hard winds blow
Let the seasons turn
Let the old streets know
There’s a life underneath us
That we never control
I wanna take some time
Yeah, take it slow
Let tomorrow come
When tomorrow knows
I’ve spent too many years
With somewhere else to go
Now I’m right here
Watching the world grow
Outro
Through the concrete
Through the stone
Through the places
We abandoned long ago
No hurry
No control
Just watch it
Watch it
Watch the world grow.
