Amy Grant

We sowed our seeds
Watered with tears
Waiting for signs of growth
Took months of days
And then took years

We took our steps
We took our falls
Somewhere along the way
We just got lost
And we lost it all

But nothing ventured, nothing gained
The risk of living is the pain
And what will be will be anyway

Oh, it's better not to know
The way it's gonna go
What will die and what will grow
Goodbye more than hello
It's better not to know

Those tiny stems became these trees
With dirt and storm
And sun and air to breathe
Like you and me

And some fell down
And some grew tall
And those surviving twenty winter thaws
Have the sweetest fruit of all

But innocence and planting day
Are both long gone
So much has changed
And if we had to do it all again

Oh, it's better not to know
The way it's gonna go
What will die and what will grow
Oh, nothing stays the same
Life flickers like a flame
As the seasons come and go
Goodbye more than hello
It's better not to know

Is it better, better not to know?
Is it better, (is it better), is it better?

We sowed our seeds
Watered with tears

Oh, it's better not to know
The way it's gonna go
What will die and what will grow
Oh, nothing stays the same
Life flickers like a flame
As the seasons come and go
Goodbye more than hello
What comes of what we sow
It's better not to know
It's better not to know

We sowed our seeds
Watered with tears

By the time Amy Grant was nineteen, she was Contemporary Christian music’s most celebrated singer. Grant grew up in the Church of Christ where she sang for God two nights a week. As a teen, she decided to pursue a career in music, writing her first song while attending devotional meetings at her high school.

Grant recorded a demo while working as an intern at a recording studio and the owner was so impressed he signed her to his own label and released her first album Amy Grant in 1977. It spawned three top 10 songs on Billboard’s Christian Songs chart.

The following year, Grant began touring while balancing college studies. Her second album My Father’s Eyes was released in April 1979. At its record release party, she met future first husband gospel singer Gary Chapman. He’d written its title track, and it would become her first of many Christian Songs Chart-toppers. Her third album Never Alone came out in 1981 and features the #3 Christian Songs hit “Look What Has Happened To Me”.

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