Name: Mountain Steep
Duration: P00H02M54S
Description: What if Third Eye Blind wrote a pop-country tune with Old Dominion? What if they wrote about life from a neutral, wisened perspective? Maybe this song isn't for everyone, but it's for people who need to hear it. "Mountain Steep" is a narrative follow-up to Concrete Floor, Benn Park's debut album, taken three years after the events of the final track ("Turtle Race").

Mountain Steep

by Benn Park

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What if Third Eye Blind wrote a pop-country tune with Old Dominion? What if they wrote about life from a neutral, wisened perspective? Maybe this song isn't for everyone, but it's for people who need to hear it. "Mountain Steep" is a narrative follow-up to Concrete Floor, Benn Park's debut album, taken three years after the events of the final track ("Turtle Race").

lyrics

I used to wade by the water
Now I hang out down
I used to beat down the backroads
Now I just swerve around
Traffic lights and cars
Runnin' subtle signals
Beaten mics at bars
Audience abysmal

There's a whole world out there where
Doors are hard to open
But trimmer, greener pastures
Let the truth be spoken

Life ain't always peachy keen
Some days, I just wanna leave
Behind what I don't wanna see
No matter how broken
But life ain't always mountain steep
Control what you can and let the rest be
Depends on how I do perceive
The quick and slow motions
Just a reminder that
Life ain't always mountain steep

I used to bottle up my baggage
Now I sing them with the crowd
Guess life always has a way
Of turnin' back around

There's a whole world out there and
It ain't always golden
But that's alright right now
'Cause I showed up to own it

Life ain't always peachy keen
Some days, I just wanna leave
Behind what I don't wanna see
No matter how broken
But life ain't always mountain steep
Control what you can and let the rest be
Depends on how I do perceive
The quick and slow motions
Just a reminder that
Life ain't always mountain steep

Took a while to realize
Our time on Earth ain't just a climb
Don't always need cloud nine
To know that I'm alive

Life ain't always peachy keen (I think I can, I think I can)
Some days, I just wanna leave (Take on what I don't know)
Behind what I don't wanna see (I know I can't sit on my hands)
No matter how broken (Other things, I gotta let 'em go)
But life ain't always mountain steep (I think I can, I think I can)
Control what you can and let the rest be (Take on what I don't know)
Depends on how I do perceive (I know I can't sit on my hands)
The quick and slow motions (Other things, I gotta let 'em go)
Just a reminder that
Life ain't always mountain steep (I think I can, I think I can)
Life ain't always mountain steep (Take on what I don't know)
Life ain't always mountain steep (I know I can't sit on my hands)
Life ain't always mountain steep (Other things, I gotta let 'em go)
Life ain't always mountain steep (I think I can, I think I can)
Life ain't always mountain steep (Take on what I don't know)
Life ain't always mountain steep (I know I can't sit on my hands)
(Other things, I gotta let 'em go)

credits

released September 23, 2022
Amanda McCarthy - cowriter

Matt Bolton - tracking engineer (drumset), co-production (drumset),

Benn Park - writer, co-production, drumset, acoustic guitar, vocals, vocal harmony, gang vocals,

Kristian Veech - production, mixing engineer, mastering engineer, electric guitar, electric bass guitar, lap steel, banjo, tambourine, keyboards, gang vocals,

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Benn Park Nashville, Tennessee

According to Benn, music-making is a creative, therapeutic response to the human condition. Included in that response are the rewards and defeats of 21st-century adulthood. These days, Benn Park happens to express this worldview through original folk and alt-country songs. ... more

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