Like many of John Frusciante’s lyrics, Foregrow deals with the essential self that we all are. The one true self of everything.
This song’s lyrics is about reconnecting with one’s true self as a desire above all others.
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A series of events
Just one forever
Senses returning
The pain grows inside me exponentially
Wasn't deaf, dumb, paralyzed or blind
Traded being for going where beings hard to come by
(You know this place)
There's only one first time
For any one thing
Never another
And successors numbered
I remember having
Sight with no eyes and space for a body
Thoughts didn't replace me
Brain in region free
The most perfectly warm temperature is no temperature at all
And who you see is away so far
A typical moment is the infinite
Nothing else in it
None ever finish
I thought for so long
Love was forever
Shook and I fell here
Everytime entwined
And in a perfect, unfailing line
Which is a condition of mind
Foregrow was written by John Frusciante.
Foregrow was produced by John Frusciante.
John Frusciante released Foregrow on Sat Apr 16 2016.
The EP opens with a song called Foregrow, and this is the only tune on which I sing. The lyrics concern a vivid pre-life memory, in which I was a section of outer space. I used a midi guitar to play a DX7 synthesizer, in order to make these kinds of falling and whooshing sounds, by bending strings i...