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The opening lines are about one of my favorite places near the lake. It’s actually where the cover art for the EP came from too. “Those steps” are the back cover. We’ve been fortunate enough to build a good number of best-friend relationships in a lot of places. The “roots” and “state line” metaphors in the chorus are definitely a reference to that—being tied or connected to people you sincerely feel are a part of you, even if you can’t physically see them too frequently. And the “seeds” metaphor is a little of that. Some of our best friends now, are people that maybe sparked a conversation after seeing us once. It’s sort of a comment on how surprising those growths can be, and how refreshing it is to find shoulders in those people on down the road.
-Drew Justice (via Property of Zack)

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Sidetracked to those steps today
The ones we always had to take
Our best potential friends to by the lake
The water's down, but it works for me
It always rises in the spring
Whether they'll be here to see it or not
That rope's still in the tree
That none of us can ever seem
To muster up the guts to just jump out of

The roots keep feeding and spanning state lines
That never really mattered to me
Too deep to sever, they keep me connected
To best friends I never get to see

I watch the seeds we've planted grow and consume
Every crisis we go through
Be it place or man, or the way I live
Nothing has entirely destroyed me yet

The roots keep feeding and spanning state lines
That never really mattered to me
Too deep to sever, they keep me connected
To best friends I never get to see

Well, not "never" but never enough
Considering reminders that I stay so proud of
Pictures of couches thrown on to fires
And hotel parties in The 'Brier
The first time we felt west coast sand
And came back home to see that no one understands
Save the few who take the time at night to send
Messages that read, "let me know when you make it in
When you make it in

When you make it safe and sound"
I don't know what I'd do if you weren't around
You're why this means so much, knowing all that I'll give up
Based on four years worth of precedent and repetition

The roots keep feeding and spanning state lines
That never really mattered to me
Too deep to sever, they keep me connected
To best friends I never get to see
The roots keep feeding and spanning state lines
That never really mattered to me
Too deep to sever, they keep me connected
To best friends I never get to see

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from Nature & Nurture EP, released May 21, 2013

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We're a Pop-Punk band from Knoxville Tennessee on Little Heart Records

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