Join American Songwriter over on our new YouTube channel and make sure to subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ9z6uN6VdVxlvFoJqR17qg Allison Moorer stops by the American Songwriter office to perform “Down To Believing,” the title track to her new album.

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Video shot and edited by Neal Dahlgren. Audio recorded and edited by Steve Martin.

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  13. Beautiful Art. Thank you for sharing. I typed up the lyrics, I think they're right. But, I wanted to add that I don't think people should beat them selves up, blame themselves or each other for failed relationships or behaviors used to combat or contest the difficult situations we may befall. This society, that's supposedly "advanced" and cultured, is not always easy to exist in, not logical at times, and usually goes against nature. Some cultures are different and may have it figured out, everyone in their societies are happy, healthy, "wealthy", and co-exist well. But, for the majority, you're lucky if you can keep YOURSELF alive, healthy, sane, and functioning, let alone a part of a long-term family union, full of complex personalities, within a complex living system. How can you expect a lifetime together, with everything we have to deal with to survive, here? If it happens for you, great. Good for you and yours. But, I think friendships seem to last longer, to me…And, well, I'm not sure people should be PLANNING unions and families in the chaotic, unstable, dis-jointed networks, dysfunctional state of the world, as it is. It seems to me that friendships or teams would be more functional in these times, in times when you may rely on each other's survival skills and defenses. Rules we live under, aside from the basic civil, and kind ones, were created thousands of years ago. Things change. Sometimes they change for the better. Sometimes, they take two steps back. Try not to blame yourselves or each other for a the miss-steps in your lives and the other lives you effect, in-turn. Step back and look at the situation from a different perspective, if you can. Try to see the forest thru the trees, even though your view is blocked most the time. If you remain civil friends, try to support each other, yourself, your friends, and your families while surviving this crazy world, then you're doing great, better than most. And if you can't function very well with or without each other, it's not, really, your fault. It's society, again, that I blame…From one of my favorite movies, Matrix:
    Morpheus: "Let me tell you why you’re here. You know something. What you know, you can’t explain, but you feel it. You felt it your entire life. There’s something’s wrong with the world. You don’t know what, but it’s there. Like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I’m talking about?
    Neo: The Matrix.
    Morpheus: Do you want to know what it is?
    [Neo nods]
    Morpheus: The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window, or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
    Neo: What truth?
    Morpheus: That you are a slave. Like everyone else, you were born into bondage, born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch. A prison for your mind…The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. When you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of people we're trying to save, but until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand that most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it…What is the Matrix? Control. The Matrix is a computer-generated dream world built to turn a human being 'into a battery'.

    Lyrics:

    Down To Believin – Allison Moorer

    We found it hangin from a cloud that time we went up there
    It looked like diamonds and pearls
    There was so much of it, I wore a little in my hair
    Everyone said "city girl"

    Coming down wasn't easy but we tried our best
    'Cept we used it up and didn't put any back
    Now, you looked so surprised cause there ain't none left
    And we're just empty-hearted and sad

    So, I guess it comes down to believin
    And whether we do or we don't
    I guess it comes down to stayin
    Or leaving and whether we will or we won't

    Staring down at the ground ain't gonna help us none
    There's no need in makin this hard
    Hell life's too long to wake up every day without someone
    Who likes all your scratches and scars

    So, I guess it comes down to believin
    And whether we do or we don't
    I guess it comes down to stayin
    Or leaving and whether we will or we won't

    Anybody that ever loved anybody
    Knows this is part of the deal
    You just have to hold on
    Forever after it's all gone

    Then i guess it comes down to believin
    And whether we do or we don't

    I guess it comes down to stayin
    Or leavin and whether we will or we won't

    Whether we will or we won't

    And whether we will or we won't

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