In this song we meet the fisherman. He’s lonely and grasping, caught in the same cycle day after day. He’s isolated, haunted by his dreams and the fear that he’ll be taken by the sea with no one to mourn him. In the last couple years, we can relate. On an individual level, the fisherman is that voice inside that doesn’t understand love and it believes it’s fundamentally on its own. On a societal level, it’s the fear that fuels institutions based on greed and extraction; the fear that keeps us stuck in unsustainable and harmful patterns. The fisherman’s state is predicated on the same belief that keeps hetero-patriarchy, white supremacy, and late stage capitalism booming: the lie that we are separate, and that what affects one of us will not impact the others.
lyrics
I come home and the house is dark
So I spark a lonely flame
Fill this room with light and smoke
And listen to the ocean sing
Well, the sea never stops her sighing
And the wind never quits its rush
every night there’s fish for frying
Every morning, fish to catch
Just one room of thatch and stone
Just one bed, I lay alone
Just one night, over and over
Just one dream I can’t remember
Lost in the waves there’s a woman’s face
And she’s singing to me
It’s my mother’s voice, and some
Old forgotten melody
I wake in the night with a chill and a fright
To the crash of a storm
Nobody’d know except me and the sea
If I never came home
Well the chill never leaves my fingers
And the damp never leaves my bones
every night I bank the embers
every morning, wake alone
credits
from Shapeshifter,
track released October 7, 2022
Lizzy Ross - lead vocals, vocal harmonies
Omar Ruiz-Lopez - acoustic guitar, cello
Tatiana Hargreaves - 5-string fiddle
Joseph Terrell - rubber bridge guitar, vocal harmonies
Libby Rodenbough - vocal harmonies
SOUND ENGINEER: Jason Richmond
MIXING ENGINEER: Jason Richmond
MASTERING ENGINEER: Jason Richmond
PRODUCER: Jason Richmond, Lizzy Ross, Omar Ruiz-Lopez
✨harmony + folklore + queer + de-homogenizing the americana roots music narrative ✨ Our new album Shapeshifter is out
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