Take a Look Around

by Gecko

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lyrics

It's been suggested that birds will often choose
To fly a more scenic route than just directly through
Makes me question the phrase 'As the crow flies'
I thought it meant get there as quick as you can
But maybe for birds its more about the journey than the plan
Forget the big picture
From up here the world just looks like a big picture
Following that analogy
If the picture was in a gallery
I might be staring at it thinking 'What does it all mean?'
Just searching for answers in the description underneath
But there's music in the spaces in between
And maybe I should be embracing the mystery
As time rolls on and all it leaves is history
Well apparently before history there was pre history
But how did they decide exactly when that would be?
We've got writing now we could really do with a new era

I don't know much but I know I'm here
So let's take a look around

Who first thought of trying to drink a coffee bean?
What was the process that lead to inventing bread?
They couldn't just look it up on the internet
We're talking about way before even ask jeeves
I take for granted the unlikeliness of my existence
The chance this Earth holds just the right conditions
For life to thrive because of the sun's position
We're in the goldilocks zone feels just right
With evolution yeah they really put the work in
So many microscopic legends who didn't even have legs then
Just trying to come out of their shell
Passing on deforming genes that started forming things
At a crossroads of life's enormous strings
And some of those things started crawling out the sea
Crawling on their belly for many a millenia
Eating out of swamps and places probably even smellier
While Earth formed continents
Dinosaurs roared confident
A little rodent mammal was just trying to keep a low profile
Squirming round the edges in a little burrow bedsit
Clinging on to a life that you would one day inherit
Like a world record attempt for the longest game of pass the parcel
That life made it passed all the obstacles it passed through
And now you can feel it
With every breath you take
A concept that ironically takes my breath away

I don't know much but I know I'm here
So let's take a look around

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released October 27, 2022

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Gecko UK

Gecko is a London based singer-storyteller, his playful lyrics cover the big things in life; think iPhones, Libraries & Guanabana fruit juice to name but a few.

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