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Practical Decision

from The Ear Between Worlds by The Wiggly Tendrils

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This song is the 5th track on our upcoming album, "The Ear Between Worlds." Enjoy!

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a home is a house and has a house keeper
and a soon to be mom is still a teenager
they made a practical decision
they made a practical decision

and when i was told i did not believe her
at 40 years old and she don't even know her
she's at the hospital now she's going to deliver
who lets their life be change by a total stranger
she made a practical decision
it's just a practical decision

na na na na na na na na na
na na na na na na na na na
na na na na na na na na na
na na na na na na na na na

it's just a practical decision
it's just a practical decision

and a teen is allowed to be a teenager
it's just a practical decision to love

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from The Ear Between Worlds, track released February 19, 2013
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Beth is a 40 year old housekeeper in the house where I stay in the Philippines. She has a 21 year old daughter Wendy, and they look like sisters. When her friends ask, "Why did you not remarry?" She says, "I don't know!" Yesterday she had friends over to watch a movie. One of them was a woman who works at the orphanage where I teach, and one was her teenaged daughter who was 9 months pregnant. Beth, Wendy, the teenager and her mother all lounged on a bed giggling at the movie. Later that day the orphanage owner came by and said the teenager had gone to the hospital. He said she felt too young and poor to take care of the baby, so Beth would take care of it at the house while the mom decides whether or not to put it up for adoption. I asked Beth about it and she said "if the mother decides to put the baby up for adoption... I will adopt the baby." I asked if she was friends with the teenager or something, and she said no, but she had more money and time for the baby, and the teenager was very talented so she could go back to school and do well. The decision was just practical. She made it just that morning when they were all together watching a movie. That night I listened to Paul Simon's later album "You're the One." The song "Hurricane Eye" says something like "if you want to be a missionary let a stranger change your life." The song and the album as a whole is refreshingly self-aware with practical stories told with sensitivity and a sense of humor. The tone reminded me of Beth, smiling, saying "I will adopt." Any day now there will be a baby in this house where I stay. I walk down the warm, slanted, colorful streets and think how strange it is that I'd feel so at home living with strangers and writing stories about their lives.

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