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I Sing

from Backward EP by Rhys Tivey

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lyrics

I had a dream that my mother went into the sea, and I wept in floods.
Yet still I knew that she had not left.
I saw her in Earth and sky,
and I heard her in the song of birds and leaves and branches.
I felt her in the mother of us all,
and I fell down and took dirt in hand.

Some big boys pump her for more dark liquid gold.
Some sick boys sell seven-year slaves to hungry lost souls.
They disgrace the mother of us all,
so I fall down and listen for her call.

I will survive my kin.
I will heal with or without them.
You are a warrior when you sit up and give thanks for a simple breath.
You are a woman and a man when you retrieve your head from the sand.

So I lift up my trumpet and I sing, and I reason with the devil and kings.
I lift up my trumpet and I sing, and I reason with the devil and kings.

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This song is dedicated to my mother and to the Earth, which sustains (and is inseparable from) all living things.

credits

from Backward EP, released January 17, 2017
Rhys Tivey: voice / trumpet / frame drum / music / lyrics / production
Julian Pollack: production / piano / synths / organ
Deen Anbar: guitars
Dillon Treacy: drums
Carter Lee: bass
Noel Brennan: percussion
Emily Wespiser: flute
Nick Miller: recording
Phil Weinrobe: mixing
Matthew Agoglia: mastering
Recorded at Mercy Sound Studios, 66 Rivington Studios, Figure 8 Studios, Bridge and Water Productions, and Maple Horn Productions

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Rhys Tivey New York

singer-songwriter, trumpeter, producer

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