Growing Pains Artist: Birdy Trying to change your mind is like the weather And you don’t make my heart beat like you used to I’ve been waiting for a sign You’ve been saving all your lines We could save each other for the better And when you say my name, I’ll be a memory This is more than we had planned Choices taken from our hands Finally there’s space to stand alone My mind is a runaway And I find it’s too hard to breathe Just say what you want to say Are you there? Tell me, are you there? I feel these growing pains Have made us far too strong We’ll change if you want to change Are you there? Tell me, are you there? You could lose yourself and search forever Looking for the person that you’ll never be We’ve been trying to compensate Time to learn from our mistakes Maybe one day, we’ll fit back together I’ll pick up the pieces and we’ll rearrange Now we need to follow fate Now we look the other way Now we find the strength to stand alone My mind is a runaway And I find it’s too hard to breathe Just say what you want to say Are you there? Tell me, are you there? I feel these growing pains Have made us far too strong We’ll change if you want to change Are you there? Tell me, are you there? We’ve been changing into something more Familiar faces turning into stone These growing pains have made us far too strong We move along, we move along I find it’s too hard to breathe Say what you want to say Are you there? Tell me, are you there? ... Background From British musician Birdy’s third album “Beautiful Lies,” this song has Eastern influences easily recognizable in both its instrumentation and melody. Birdy says it’s inspired by the story of “Memoirs of a Geisha.” Although Birdy sounds more experimental than she ever did before, she still stays within the frame of her emotive brand of singer-songwriter pop. | 