Name: Origins
Duration: P00H05M04S
Description: this song was inspired by ancestral inheritance and epigenetic variance.

Origins

by Britt Warner

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this song was inspired by ancestral inheritance and epigenetic variance.

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ORIGINS // by Britt Warner

Dreaming of a future lover
While inside my mother's mother
Trauma passed down from another
Woman in distress
Who I never met
But you can bet
She was a mess

Curled within the pelvic region
Of a cell barely yet breathing
I absorbed genetic teachings
Before I was born
I weathered their storms
Programmed to mourn
In human form

Where we came from is where we're going
Who we came from is worth knowing
Tell me, why am I the way I am
And can I change? Can I change?
Change if I can't, change if I can't change my origins?

Baffled by a strange attraction
To my heart's dissatisfaction
Cycles yield a chain reaction
I'm the weakest link
Flawed in how I think
Grown to repeat
My roots run deep

Where we came from is where we're going
Who we came from is worth knowing
Tell me, why am I the way I am
And can I change? Can I change?
Change if I can't, change if I can't change my origins?

And what of my father in the womb?
Did I inherit what she carried, too?
What's the cost of holocaust-mutated DNA?
Can I thrive if genocide survives in me today?
Built to destroy myself
On the guilt trip of someone else

Where we came from is where we're going
Who we came from is worth knowing
Tell me, why am I the way I am
And can I change? Can I change?
Change if I can't, change if I can't change my origins?

How can I change if I can't
If I can't change change my origins?

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released July 21, 2023
lyrics, vocals, bass guitar: Britt Warner
synths and production: Taiana
violin: Jordan Ware

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