The Sum Of It All by The Herd Lyrics
[Pre-Chorus (Extended): Urthboy, Ozi Batla & Jane Tyrrell]
What is the trade off in your life?
What did you pay? What is your price?
What did you weigh it up against?
What is the trade off in your life?
What did you pay? What is your price?
What did you weigh it up against?
Was it worth it? (one, two, three, four)
[Verse 1: Urthboy]
My dreams run amok, they don't take in my means
They break-in then break-out, they're making a scene
I wake up and leg it, I chase 'em with both hands
They float and don't care where my feet land
Gotta stay fed but you gotta stay friends
What I'd do for the roof over my head (my head)
The blood; the sweat; the tears I've shed
What I'd bend for the ends well, it depends
On the prize and the pride of the name I inherited
Dirty hands; clean heart; rose up from the sediment
I ain't tryna build a mansion or expand a settlement
Be an empty headed guest on Letterman, fire
Gotta keep the engine purring, and the fire stoked
Redemption round the corner holding on the higher hopes
Bigger than the music and all the liner notes
Good and bad, sum of everything that I had hoped
[Pre-Chorus: Urthboy & Ozi Batla]
What is the trade off in your life?
What did you pay? What is your price?
What did you weigh it up against? (one, two, three)
[Chorus: Urthboy, Ozi Batla & Jane Tyrrell]
Was it worth it?
You compromise so much
That you
Forgot what you want
You are the sum of it all
Is that what you want?
[Verse 2: Jane Tyrrell]
Report read she's a dreamer
Something wrong, we should screen her
How could they know of the carnival in
Her fix when life got grim
If only they could taste the real thing
Beneath their feet, beyond the ceiling
Like hounds they'd be stuck on it
Chasin', lovin', hatin', bathin' shakin' it
They'd be doped on the feeling of it
Move mountains clothed in it
Battle waves that swallow ships
[Chorus: Urthboy, Ozi Batla & Jane Tyrrell]
Was it worth it?
You compromise so much
That you
Forgot what you want
You are the sum of it all
Is that what you want?
[Bridge: Urthboy & Ozi Batla]
I run myself away-oh
Into the ground away-oh
I live up to my way-oh
My father's name away-oh
[Verse 3: Ozi Batla]
Once more at a crossroads, looking up at signposts
All of those lies you'll never live and cannot know
So I wonder, will I wander or hold my line
And find myself longing for what can never be mine
This tale's tied together with invisible threads
Lingering on what she said, what if instead
Of a missed opportunity it just wasn't meant to be?
Please believe I never faked what it meant to me
(Everything must change!) Don't I know it
In a moment hesitate ad you've blown it
You want to know the possible, but it would freak you out if you were shown it
So I'm holding my course until this road ends
I know the pen is the constant, but the ink is transient
More inclined to letting it ride than planning it
So I take my lumps, 'cause I wrote this story
It's always feast or famine, always death or glory
[Pre-Chorus: Urthboy & Ozi Batla]
What is the trade off in your life?
What did you pay? What is your price?
What did you weigh it up against? (one, two, three)
[Chorus (Extended): Urthboy, Ozi Batla & Jane Tyrrell]
Was it worth it?
You compromise so much
That you (compromise so much)
Forgot what you want
Forgot what you want
You are the sum of it all
Is that what you want?
Is that what you want?
You compromise so much
That you (you compromise so much)
Forgot what you want
Forgot what you want
You are the sum of it all
What is the trade off in your life?
What did you pay? What is your price?
What did you weigh it up against?
What is the trade off in your life?
What did you pay? What is your price?
What did you weigh it up against?
Was it worth it? (one, two, three, four)
[Verse 1: Urthboy]
My dreams run amok, they don't take in my means
They break-in then break-out, they're making a scene
I wake up and leg it, I chase 'em with both hands
They float and don't care where my feet land
Gotta stay fed but you gotta stay friends
What I'd do for the roof over my head (my head)
The blood; the sweat; the tears I've shed
What I'd bend for the ends well, it depends
On the prize and the pride of the name I inherited
Dirty hands; clean heart; rose up from the sediment
I ain't tryna build a mansion or expand a settlement
Be an empty headed guest on Letterman, fire
Gotta keep the engine purring, and the fire stoked
Redemption round the corner holding on the higher hopes
Bigger than the music and all the liner notes
Good and bad, sum of everything that I had hoped
[Pre-Chorus: Urthboy & Ozi Batla]
What is the trade off in your life?
What did you pay? What is your price?
What did you weigh it up against? (one, two, three)
[Chorus: Urthboy, Ozi Batla & Jane Tyrrell]
Was it worth it?
You compromise so much
That you
Forgot what you want
You are the sum of it all
Is that what you want?
[Verse 2: Jane Tyrrell]
Report read she's a dreamer
Something wrong, we should screen her
How could they know of the carnival in
Her fix when life got grim
If only they could taste the real thing
Beneath their feet, beyond the ceiling
Like hounds they'd be stuck on it
Chasin', lovin', hatin', bathin' shakin' it
They'd be doped on the feeling of it
Move mountains clothed in it
Battle waves that swallow ships
[Chorus: Urthboy, Ozi Batla & Jane Tyrrell]
Was it worth it?
You compromise so much
That you
Forgot what you want
You are the sum of it all
Is that what you want?
[Bridge: Urthboy & Ozi Batla]
I run myself away-oh
Into the ground away-oh
I live up to my way-oh
My father's name away-oh
[Verse 3: Ozi Batla]
Once more at a crossroads, looking up at signposts
All of those lies you'll never live and cannot know
So I wonder, will I wander or hold my line
And find myself longing for what can never be mine
This tale's tied together with invisible threads
Lingering on what she said, what if instead
Of a missed opportunity it just wasn't meant to be?
Please believe I never faked what it meant to me
(Everything must change!) Don't I know it
In a moment hesitate ad you've blown it
You want to know the possible, but it would freak you out if you were shown it
So I'm holding my course until this road ends
I know the pen is the constant, but the ink is transient
More inclined to letting it ride than planning it
So I take my lumps, 'cause I wrote this story
It's always feast or famine, always death or glory
[Pre-Chorus: Urthboy & Ozi Batla]
What is the trade off in your life?
What did you pay? What is your price?
What did you weigh it up against? (one, two, three)
[Chorus (Extended): Urthboy, Ozi Batla & Jane Tyrrell]
Was it worth it?
You compromise so much
That you (compromise so much)
Forgot what you want
Forgot what you want
You are the sum of it all
Is that what you want?
Is that what you want?
You compromise so much
That you (you compromise so much)
Forgot what you want
Forgot what you want
You are the sum of it all