This song is about the Barnacle Geese, who make their nests up in high cliff faces to avoid their eggs getting eaten by predators. However, a few days after hatching, the Goslings must leave the nest by jumping down from the cliff to reach the land below, to graze for food with their parents
Why do...
[Intro]
Learned Behaviour: it always turns us back round to the start
[Verse]
Just got in, brand new skin
No leeway for slow learning
There is no try to do your best
There’s only one outcome if you fail the test
[Pre-Chorus]
I was born curious
I leave to know my way back by heart
This is learned behaviour
It always turns us back round to the start
[Chorus]
It's as if everything was new to me and sent to thrill my senses
It's as if everything was pointing to my rite of passage
Oo, oo, oo, oo, oo, oo, oo, oo, oo
Oo, oo, oo, oo, oo, oo, oo, oo
[Verse]
What fresh blood must undertake
How nature can educate
What are the odds of my design
Short fall, long climb
[Pre-Chorus]
So small, spiralling downwards
400 ft so hard so fast
This is learned behaviour
It always turns us back round to the start
[Chorus]
It's as if everything was new to me and sent to thrill my senses
It's as if everything was pointing to my rite of passage
It's as if everything to me was new and sent to thrill my senses
It's as if everything was pointing to my rite of passage
Oo, oo, oo, oo, oo, oo, oo, oo, oo
Oo, oo, oo, oo, oo, oo, oo, oo
Oo, oo, oo, oo, oo, oo, oo, oo
[Cello Solo]
Ah, Ah, Ah, Ah
Ah, Ah, Ah, Ah
Ah, Ah, Ah, Ah
Ah, Ah, Ah, Ah
[Pre-Chorus]
I was born curious
I leave to know my way back by heart
This is learned behaviour
It always turns us back round to the start
I was born curious
I leave to know my way back by heart
This is learned behaviour
It winds us back to the start
[Chorus]
It's as if everything was new to me and sent to thrill my senses
It's as if everything was pointing to my rite of passage
It's as if everything to me was new and sent to thrill my senses
It's as if everything was pointing to my rite of passage
Rite Of Passage was written by Moulettes.
Rite Of Passage was produced by Hannah Moule & Jim Mortimore & Oliver Austin.
Moulettes released Rite Of Passage on Fri Jun 03 2016.