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Resilient Moon

by Blue Lobelia

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You don’t have to close your eyes, secret life, it’s thriving on the outside Just bend to children’s height, augment the light It’s thriving on the outside Unknown or intimately knowing the unknown Rings grown, existence as devotion, not alone Birds and wind and trees all singing ooo-ahhh ooo-ahh The closer you get to knowing god, the further you feel depending on the sun to rise and the moon at its heel You don’t have to close your eyes secret life it’s thriving on the outside Just bend to children’s height, augment the light it’s thriving on the outside. the outside. the outside.
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Hold to that body Change is always coming Reach out, touch something But please don’t stop the becoming I know you’re hurting, I know this is crumbling Reach out touch something Don’t stop becoming Listen to the wind, You know, it sounds different in this season You want to hear it again? Can you let that be your reason? I know you’re deep. That suffering repeats Reach out, touch something Change is coming You arrived here worthy, you are enough. The light is moving, The day is ending, The night beginning The morning is pending The light is moving The moon ascending The dusk diffusing The dawn intending Are we all sleeping? We’re all due for waking. Have you lost your dreaming? Watch, the light is moving.
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You have a question Your body has an answer It has been holding your ocean And that water can be heavy And that water can be heavy And that water can be heavy And that water will make you weightless You ask a question Every body gives their answer Hold to your wonder, be vigilant with your hunger Your visions can be deadly Your visions can be deadly Your visions can be deadly Your visions will hold you to life If the joy lives quiet and low to the ground, bend down When they doubt with their questions Let your body move with answers You are worthy of your laughter You are both before and after Your pleasure can be guiding You’re soft and getting softer If the joy lives quiet and low to the ground, bend down You have a question Your body has an answer It has been holding your ocean And that water can be heavy And that water can be heavy And that water can be heavy And that water will make you weightless
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Emerge into sun, hair raise, mm Steeped in the ocean, salt to taste Wood fired hair, breathe deep, mm Body tired in tall grasses Tune to the thrush, he sings, mm Visceral hush of the evening Swim through the blue hour, after gold Soft of her skin in my arms enfold Tracing the bridge of her nose, mm Light of the dusk ‘till her eyes close Plum from the tree on the moon, floating Sweet plum my arms are holding
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Sometimes I go to the ocean my urgency matched by the ocean Yes I am, a god damn ocean I want to feel big things, that’s what I’m here for To feel big things, that’s what I’m made for It keeps me human and the more than human things keeps me tethered to them and it keeps me human Sometimes I go to the ocean My urgency matched by the ocean Yes I am, a god damn ocean I want to feel big things, That’s what I’m here for To feel big things, That’s what I’m made for It keeps me human And the more than human things I am not defined by what I believe, I am not defined by your expectations of me Sometimes I go to the ocean I find myself by the ocean Yes I am, a god damn ocean
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Cost, cost Nature a woman who knows how to ask for something in return and the spring returns Lost, Lost Never connected to know growing things by name and I’ll learn their names Ghost, Ghost I calm a fear, claim you aren’t really here by doing the sign of the cross to a Holy Ghost Distraught, distraught Grateful, just building a library of all the people’s pain How it feels the same, as all my own pain god good god
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It wants out, but I hold it Just under the ribs, barely moonlit Under the weight of that current My visions can’t seem to get up and out This is wrong I want to change it So I look and I listen for different You can’t believe everything that you read, But what of the things that I breathe, that I see, that I feel and I know in the quiet of trees? Yell, ‘Head out of the clouds! Keep two feet on the ground!’ Which means, ‘Hush Hush, Blasphemer! You’re under their influence! A dreamer! You should be grateful!’ and, ‘Who told you that?’ We talk round and round. Deep down I know that. Deep down, it’s not like that. Been working with death all the time. It’s changing my tune and it’s changing the sounds in my mind. Do you ignore it, or just fear it? Abhor it, or endear it? Move far from, don’t get near it! Close it out and disappear it! Swallow it, and unknow it! Control it! Can’t control it! Up and out, how do I hold this? In the space between now and let go of it.
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Do I know my own thoughts anymore? My feelings in words, I watch you withdrawing. Then you tell me, nothing matters at all, while hurting so much you keep yourself in hiding. Can you hear the knowing anymore? Or have you lost touch, too caught up in the feeling? What if I say, ‘nothing matters at all’ while staying out in the open, so urgently striving?
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released May 30, 2022

Composed + Arranged: Rachel Bruch
Engineered, Produced and Mixed: Kurtis McAllister
Mastered: J. Lapointe Archive Mastering
Guitar + Voice + Violins: Rachel Bruch
Cellos: Blanche Israël
Percussion: Joshua Van Tassel
Bass + Piano + everything else: Kurtis McAllister
Album Art: Matt Horseman

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