Chorus: (in Lugandan)
Kimu nkimaanyi
Buli muntu alina ensiigo
Omutima gwo gulukung 'aamye
Buli muntu alina ensiigo
some people quietly reveal
In the manner of the meak
some people shout the way they feel
To a radical degree
Some people sing it to express
While others hear another call
Some peopl speak with subtleness
Some don't rely on words at all
But let me tell you 'bout...
Chorus: One thing I know
Everybody's got a seed to sow
Let your heart of hearts
Take you down the road
Everybody's got a seed to sow
We all are pieces of the whole
With different feelings to evoke
Giving distinction to the role
Different players-different strokes
But let me tell you 'bout...
Chorus
Some people walk
Some people race
Some people vary in their pace
But God can use what you can give
Within the mystery of His ways
Don't underestimate...
Chorus
Seed To Sow
Song Meaning
Michael W Smith names several different ways people express themselves before making his real point in "Seed To Sow" — "some people quietly reveal, in the manner of the meek, some people shout the way they feel, to a radical degree." The list keeps expanding rather than settling on one preferred style.
"We all are pieces of the whole, with different feelings to evoke, giving distinction to the role, different players, different strokes" treats variety itself as the design, not a problem to be smoothed over into uniformity. "Some people walk, some people race, some people vary in their pace" applies the same principle to pacing as it already applied to expression.
"But God can use what you can give, within the mystery of His ways" closes the verse by naming the actual point underneath all the variation — not that differences don't matter, but that none of them disqualify anyone from being useful, summarized in the repeated chorus: "everybody's got a seed to sow."