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Today for Bandcamp Friday, I'm releasing a song off of my upcoming album! Through this song, I want to tell you something good and true: We don't all get an equal share of suffering. Sometimes we are born into it, sometimes it hits us like an atom bomb from the sky, sudden and devastating. The most powerful thing you can do for another human is to be with them in their suffering. You don't need to fix it for them, you don't need to make them feel better or cheer them up or take their burden onto your own back. Just show up. To sit with someone you love in their pain and suffering is like a hot poker right through the heart. It hurts, but it is also a great honor to have someone trust you enough to be vulnerable with you and show you their battle wounds. When someone is deeply suffering and in the lonely, isolating throes of grief, you get to see who they are all the way down to their core, and that is a rare honor that is both weighty and beautiful. And for them, it can mean the difference between life and death, and I don't mean that metaphorically. And if you're really lucky, someday they'll show up for you and say "I'm here, I've got you," when your day of suffering arrives, as it does for all of us at some point. I am thankful for the precious few in my life who do this so well and know how to give invaluable compassion (instead of cheap pity,) it really did feel like being pulled out of the grip of death. You know who you are. I can never thank you enough. Special thanks to David Lincoln Mann for that tasty bass, and for being one of the rare good ones.
And finally, a word of encouragement to those who ARE in the throes of suffering: no feeling lasts forever, not even the really, really bad ones.
lyrics
Fingers clinging to the ledge
Closer than I've ever been to the edge
When I saw you, hope swelled in my chest
This isn't how this story ends
You say "Let go, I've got you now"
Right when my strength was running out
When everyone I love has let me down
You say you got me now
When they were all telling me who I am
It ripped me open, I thought they would understand
All I ever wanted was to be seen as I am
This isn't how the story ends
You say "Let go, I've got you now"
Right when my strength was running out
When everyone I love has let me down
You say you got me now
And so it begins
The war we always knew was coming
And there's nobody on my side
The ones on whom I thought I could depend
Went the other way running
But you showed up and kept me alive
You fight for me when no one else will
credits
released September 4, 2020
Rachael Teixeira | Keys/Mellotron/Vocals/Percussion/Production/Mixing
David Lincoln Mann | Bass
Jessica Mason | Vocals
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