FUCK YEAH BRAND NEW.
IF … by Rudyard Kipling.

Jesse Lacey about Sowing Season: “2nd verse adapted from ‘If’ by r. Kipling and how it used to hang from my father’s wall.” (taken from the liner notes of Sowing Season single).

“IF you can keep your head when all about you 
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings 
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
’ Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And - which is more - you’ll be a Man, my son!”

Relevant Sowing Season lyrics: 
Is it in you now?
To bear to hear the truth that you have spoken
Twisted up by knaves
to make a trap for fools
Is it in you now?
To watch the things you gave your life to broken
And stoop and build them up with worn out tools (Yeah).

Cut me open. Sun poisoned. This offer stands forever. New haircut. New bracelet. Eyeliner. Wait forever. First kisses. New stitches. November to remember. Nightswimmers. Collar weekend. Appearance ticket. Watch her from the roof as she walks across her backyard, … now go cry in your car. You’re just jealous cause I’m young and in love. Your stomach’s filled up but you’re starved for conversation. You’re spending all your nights growing old in bed. And you’re tearing up your photos cause you want to forget, … it’s over. You’re just jealous cause we’re young and in love …
Soco Amaretto Lime lyrics, taken from Your Favorite Weapon liner notes.