01 Jade Tracking Date

LYRICS

Fumbling in darkness searching for light
Broken down heartless in the dead of night
The good that you’ve given prob’ly won’t remain
But the things that you’ve hidden some
How they sustain

Search for your truth finding your pain
Over and over and over and over and
Over and over and over and over again
Remember we all fall down we all fall down

Slaving and trading american dreams
Capitalism parading
But you don’t own anything
Just like those stocks keep on pervading
But pull us apart at the seams

Getting higher and higher and higher and higher and higher and higher
but we all fall down we all fall down

Arrogant and spiteful violent self righteous
Bigoted and lustful fanatical aloof
Foolish and presumptuous stubborn racist hypocrite deceitful and intolerant
Paranoid and cruel greed makes us destructive destroys everything
Seeds of reckless wanting
Make the soil soil soil weak

Nobody’s perfect but we gotta try when I walk by look me in the eyes human just like you our blood blue on the inside we all fall down and I don’t know why but down in the dirt we learn the hardest lessons and don’t be afraid to ask the toughest questions it’s our birthright to feel the pain and survive it’s a blessing after all cuz that means we’re alive it’s a prize, feel the fire every tear takes you higher and we’re all in this together so it’s you I admire you inspire me when I’m struggling and down here every lesson is humbling so I crawl up from the mud longing for a hug or a nod for you to acknowledge we’re all god and we’re all not but it’s all love cuz we’re all lost and we all fall down: on christ the solid rock I stand

LINER NOTES

I met Jade though my talented nephew David Zimmer. She is the daughter of Sharon Hendrix - a legendary singer and performer - so Jade comes by her gifts honestly. She has bloomed into this amazing meta-human too - and her pen is as sharp as her beauty is deep. We’ve done many songs together including her “Farewell to Emerald City” album, which I had the pleasure to produce. I was in the mood to write a song that worked the idea that we all fall down; we all fail somehow; our lives are far from perfect – and that includes everyone. I find the lack of humility in our culture to be astounding - and I guess I was reacting to that - so I made the call to Jade. It went something like this… “Hi Jade! You wanna collaborate on a song that will essentially focus on indicting humanity” (chuckling) and she’s like, “TOTALLY DOWN!” Ha! So off we went - starting with a looped riff I played on the Pedal Steel, and the result is just a treasure to me - potent, edgy but lurking patiently behind Jade’s unique dulcet tones.

Enter DEVMO who has been “rapping better than your boyfriend since 2015.” lol…(that’s taken from her socials) which made me laugh out loud. Truth is, it’s totally true - she is a monster in the genre and I am blessed to have had the pleasure to work with her at SFS – and on her own music. What a talent. Devin put the last verse on our collaboration resulting in a powerful, yet uplifting bevy of bars - and it adds just the thing I was looking for to set up Jade’s echo to the ancient hymn “The Solid Rock.” I love the gumbo we created together and hope it turns one’s thoughts to remember the “log” in our own eye.

CREDITS

Music and Lyrics | SCOTT FRANKFURT, JADE HENDRIX, & DEVIN MOSES
Vocals | JADE HENDRIX
Rap Performance | DEVMO
Pedal Steel, Drum Programming, Moog Bass | SCOTT FRANKFURT