"SO SWEET, SO SOUR" genre: Pop
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	CD: FOREVER BEFORE NOW   Label: INDEPENDENT Credits: SONGS AND MUSIC BY MATT MORRIS / PRODUCED BY MATT MORRIS AND BRYAN KEELING / RECORDED, MIXED & MASTERED BY BRYAN KEELING
	Story Behind the Song I had the music to this song for about four months before we started making the record, and I wrote the lyrics a couple of days before I started recording the vocals. It’s autobiographical, I guess, and I was just writing about how I was feeling about my life at the time, and how you can transcend your past, but you always carry a piece of it with you. There is a lot going on in this song musically—more than you can really hear. I love the strings, but they kind of cover a couple of things up. Still, Bryan did as good a job as anyone could have done mixing it, and it sounds great. Lyrics I’m thinking in ways that no longer leave me hollow And I’ve chosen a path I know to be true So happy to know I no longer beg and borrow But remembering trials and times I once knew When they used to look down on me Did it make them feel better? To break me with their anger when I asked why? The sins are forgiven the details forgotten But a bit of the bitterness lingers inside When they used to get down on me Did it make them feel smarter? To kill me with their laughter when I asked why? You left me in a crowd, alone and screaming out loud Somehow I learned to live this life so sweet, so sour I kept in my heart all the faith of a child But I held it so tight I could take it no more I let go of the hope that somehow I might make it And then curiously it showed up at my door When they used to make fun of me Did it make them feel cooler? To answer me with nothing when I asked why? You left me in a crowd, alone and screaming out loud Somehow I learned to live this life so sweet, so sour This life so sweet, so sour This life so sweet, so sour

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