Heaven Knows is a hybrid love song and illustration of the immigrant experience, told through a more optimistic perspective of a 2nd-generation immigrant. The same love and adoration for adventure and appreciation for acceptance one may feel for a person, also comes from the excitement of entering a new country. Musically, it sits as a ballad, mixing expression and passion with rock and acoustic-rock elements. The incorporation of Eastern/Indian-inspired leadwork and slightly unconventional (to Western standards) chord changes laid with blues-based rock arranging also works to represent the feeling of having multiple cultural identities much as an immigrant experience.
lyrics
Oh give me one last ride, I've made it this far
Her eyes they echo into the night, they speak into my flight
And watching out ahead, the breeze it calls me,
Though many say that, a fool believes but this fool believes in you
Heaven knows what I'm here for,
I'm not sure what she sees in me but she let's me be myself,
I doubt that I'm the first, we've made it this far,
The sweet allure of the freeing spirits, I long to cheer it now,
But will I make it, I wandered somewhere new,
My heart can't take it, but breathing in this summer air will do.
Heaven knows what I'm here for,
I'm not sure what she sees in me but I know that I want more.
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