This is an ode to the North Carolina sky, and to our roots in old-time and folk traditions. We live way out in the woods where the stars shine bright on clear nights. I found myself singing these lines one night when we did just what the song says - turned out the lights, went outside, and looked up. You can smell the cedar and the pine, and understand how the indigenous people of this land saw the stars as the campfires of ancestors who had passed on. We spend so much time looking down at screens, it’s easy to forget that we’re part of something big, beautiful, and wild. Most of all, this song tells the truth that, no matter where we are on the status ladder, we all come from the same cosmic ocean, and we all surrender to the same mystery when we die.
lyrics
All the stars are out tonight,
turn out the lights, turn out the lights
all the stars are out tonight
look up, honeybabe!
Way out here the air is clear
feels like I could disappear
float up through the atmosphere
ride the milky way
I’ll fly away
See those campfires in the sky
hear them singing clear and high
smell the cedar and the pine
I don’t need no telescope
to see that there’s no velvet rope
keeping us from where we’re going
when we fly away
I’ll fly away
All the stars are out tonight,
turn out the lights, turn out the lights
all the stars are out tonight
look up, honeybabe.
credits
from Shapeshifter,
released October 7, 2022
Lizzy Ross - lead vocals, vocal harmonies
Omar Ruiz-Lopez - banjo, electric guitar, cello
Joseph Terrell - vocal harmonies, acoustic guitar
Libby Rodenbough - vocal harmonies
Joe Macphail - organ
Sinclair Palmer - upright bass
Austin McCall - drums
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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