• A man asking God

    THRIVE AND BLOOM

  • UB Boy has been dragging children around all his life and now his father died he wants and needs to be a man: UB Man. What is he to act to seriously become that man?

  • The Child in me

    It takes a man to carry that stone

  • Part 1: The sea will look after me
    Part 2: We've come to take the child
    Part 3: A walk on the Pier
    Part 4: A man asking God

    I’m aware that the lyrics of this song can be confusing. I too have to trace the logical steps now and then. When is it the man that acts and when is it the child, or the Child with a capital C?

    It is the Child with a capital C that is hurt and cries for nourishment. It is young UB Boy as a child that carries and drags around the crying Child and that eventually hands it over to the mighty Sea. It is UB Boy at the same age Jesus died that picked up the Child from the Sea and that took it by the hand. Socially fully competent to do so, spiritually perhaps not fully matured.

  • Once picked up, it didn’t mean the skies had cleared. Now as a socially competent man UB Boy still kept carrying and dragging the Child around. And circumstances later in life forced UB Boy to lead and guide his two real children alone as a real father. Together with the nourishing support of their mother. But after his father died something shifted. Somehow his father cleared a spot now for UB to take that place and stand upright. As his father, UB Boy started the song by taking the acoustic guitar, singing his lines and blowing the mouth organ without further accompaniment.

    So UB Boy wants and needs to be a man, UB Man. He wants to finally stop dragging around Children.

  • To be able to Believe UB Boy had to overcome his lack of believe and take this last hurdle. All he had to do was to pronounce his wish that is His command. To do so UB Boy again had to acknowledge a higher being and accept his place in the universe as just part of a whole. The Sea wasn’t a high being enough anymore. And to make a long story short he ended up with God. Even a Man is a child in the eyes of God. The Father. But a man will not get it in his system to let the Child carry that last stone. Even though it has the weight of a feather! So it takes the responsibility of a man to carry that stone! And that is the only act needed to become a man. Take full responsibility. Guided by God, or whatever power you believe in.

  • Thrive and Bloom July 16th 2019
    A man asking God
    I’m a child moving mountains. Became a man to carry such loads. I am strong, leading children. Became a man to care to look back. I ask you God as a man to take my hand in your Hand. To lead me as my father in the last little step to take. I’m a child never stopped grieving. Consolation is what it seeks. I am weak is a taboo. Though I just ask for what I need. God, will you lead me take the last hurdle. Become a man in your enchanting Garden is what I want. As a man I ask you God. For you are always willing and the source of true love is You. The last step is a small stone a child can drag around. It‘s the man to ask for help though. For it takes a man to carry that stone.