Written while wandering the Pacific Northwest: sleeping under the stars on a riverside farm in the North Cascades, canoeing and camping in Diablo Lake, taking care of horses, cattle, chickens, pigs, and fields of gold at a ranch in the Okanogan high desert of Washington state.
lyrics
Open your eyes. Look at the stars, watch the moonrise, see the trees--how they dance, sway with the breeze.
And the grace, it'll spill all around you. Kiss your face, overwhelm and astound you.
Open your heart, and the love will pour right out. All those old wounds--see how they bleed when you let them go.
And the grace, it'll spill all around you. Kiss your face, overwhelm and astound you. And the mercy, oh the mercy, and beauty.
Open your mind. Know that you don't know everything... is gonna be fine.
Just give it some time.
And the grace, it'll spill around you. Kiss your face, overwhelm and astound you. And the mercy, oh the mercy, and beauty.
You are beautiful the way you are, the way you flow.
And everything you want to be you already are.
You are mercy, and beauty.
credits
from Gypsum Roses (E.P.),
released November 5, 2016
Elise Brianne (vocals, lyrics, melody, guitar)
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Recorded and mixed by Alan Labiner at Secret Weapon Studios in Brooklyn, NYC.
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