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Song

Hindsight & Photographs

Max McNown

Night Diving (The Cost of Growing Up), 2025, English

Lyrics

Pick up to six lines to make a card.

Westland in the rearview
Everything I own in the back of that hatchback Subaru
How a desperate thought found its way in when I
Couldn't strum a chord, hadn't lived a lick
Didn't have two lines to say, I don't know
I've heard it called providence
The hand of God inside the glove of circumstance
How I got from a hometown to here
Singing songs on the edge of this stage
I used to be wiser, yeah, I was on fire
Woulda died on the hill that it's all in my hands
But the older I get, the less that I know
All I know is I don't understand
In hindsight, in photographs, right where I am
I find God wherever I can
It ain't always teardrops in a church pew
Sometimes it's white-knuckle fists screamin' at the sky in my bedroom
The face of a mountain that I'm dead set on climbin'
Or one way to freedom you take when you find it
I used to be wiser, yeah, I was on fire
Woulda died on the hill that it's all in my hands
And the older I get, the less that I know
But there's some things that I understand
In hindsight, in photographs, right where I am
I find God wherever I can
You know, when I look back on my life in hindsight
It's given me a tremendous perspective on humility
If we forget the past, we forfeit the present
And we don't prepare for the future
Faith is the assurance of things hoped for
The confidence of things not seen
Where I am now and where I want to go in the future
So when we look back over our life
Whether it's photographs or, you know, in hindsight
Providence is the hand of God
In the glove of circumstance
I think it's just so simple, but it's so profound
I used to be wiser, yeah, I was on fire
Woulda died on the hill that it's all in my hands
And the older I get, the less that I know
But there's one thing I might understand
In hindsight, in photographs, breakups and breakin' down
Sunsets and sunrises, her eyes so golden brown
Grandpa's old sermons, I'm livin' and learnin'
In a cracked windshield, blacktop, long nights with my band
I find God wherever I am
I find God wherever I am