Name: Cheaper Kind
Duration: P00H03M11S
Description: Cheaper Kind is a thoughtful reflection on faith deconstruction and what that means for your identity. The opening line "I was baptized in a lake before I had the chance to say a single dirty word out loud" sets the tone for this simple yet powerful song.

Cheaper Kind

by Leah Lawson

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Cheaper Kind is a thoughtful reflection on faith deconstruction and what that means for your identity. The opening line "I was baptized in a lake before I had the chance to say a single dirty word out loud" sets the tone for this simple yet powerful song.

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I was baptized in a lake
Before I had the chance to say
A single dirty word out loud

Growing up I was taught
My name meant faithful
but i’m not
I looked it up, it hardly means a thing at all

I have crumbled like a home
Took years to build but now it’s gone
Couldn’t live on bread or promises alone
Used to drink the holy wine
Now I'm dependent on the cheaper kind
The cheaper kind

You wouldn’t know it by my face
But I have felt the hands of grace
And I have loved just like a child

Ever since I heard that song
I tried to write it for my own,
But every note I sang was wrong

I have crumbled like a home
Took years to build but now it’s gone
Couldn’t live on bread or promises alone
Used to drink the holy wine
Now I'm dependent on the cheaper kind
The cheaper kind

I have crumbled like a home
Took years to build but now it’s gone
Couldn’t live on bread or promises alone
Used to drink the holy wine
Now I'm dependent on the cheaper kind

The cheaper kind
The cheaper kind

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released March 18, 2021
Leah Lawson - writer, vocals
Trevor Spencer - Producer
Sam Peterson - guitar, synth, instrumental

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