In Given by SEANN MEDICINA, the lyrics explore the complexity of life’s journey with gentle honesty and a hopeful heart. Through repetition and reflection, SEANN carefully examines the weight of personal experiences—what has been received, done, known, and even lost. The song’s structure leans into a rhythmic use of the word “given,” which cleverly ties together the many stages and emotions of a life lived with awareness.

SEANN addresses openly the subject of the passage of time, growth, and change. He considers youth versus age, mistakes versus learning, and the way everything has helped him shape who he is now. The lyrics don’t shy away from the difficulties of life. They calmly invite the listener in to take them as they are. This taking is not about resigning oneself, but about comprehending the way in which every piece of the journey informs the creation of meaning. There’s a soft maturity in these verses—a sense that SEANN is not looking for obvious answers, but is taking the mystery gratefully as it comes.

The moment of genius, of freedom, is the chorus. They discuss the fluidness of life, the requirement to live in the moment, daily. Never fixed, of course, the songs don’t present it as loss, either. Instead, SEANN makes it the invitation—to live in the moment, the moment that we received, at least. He makes the case for the idea that time is never wasted, come what may, which is comfort for anyone who’s ever lived in fear of wasting time. The message of the songs is that the most valuable, infinitesimally brief moments of our existing can contain their own, diminutive meanings.

Then, in the second verse, SEANN broadens the object of focus away from personal introspection. They introduce the notion of struggle, blessing, abandonment. There is recognition of the way in which we inherit the past — what had been struggled for, abandoned, given, desired or denied. Listing these contrasts, SEANN indicate the weight of gain set against loss which is the inevitable factor in life, but the mood is one of gratitude. Even when much is lost, something is always given in return.

An emotional moment arrives in the bridge, in which SEANN laments having lost time as well as having ignored inner truth. He considers his hopes, his praying, and upon refusal to listen to his own soul. This openness-enriches these prior thoughts of his. When we arrive at learning of his one time of looking outside of himself for his meaning, of having ignored the quiet voice within, the subsequent gratitude is credible as well as true. No longer is his experience of life perceived in terms of failed expectations, but the experience is grasped as gift.

The whole painting is brought forward in the final sentence, “We are all forgiven.” It is not loud or dramatic, but it lingers in the consciousness. SEANN doesn’t assert perfection or even comprehension—forgiveness. This one sentence has the quality of release, of peace to it. It is the assurance of whatever mistake, whatever loss, whatever taking, there is always the possibility of beginning afresh with the heart wide open.

All in all, the tracks of Given are philosophical, upbeat, and to the point. SEANN MEDICINA has released a serene, philosophical song that welcomes the messiness of life as it reveals the best that can possibly come from having it all.