By Will Robertson
Lead vocal: Will Robertson; harmony vocals: Brad Davidorf, Ariela Freedman, Gayanne Geurin
Will Robertson wrote this song in the fall of 2011 as he admired the beauty of the vivid leaves around his family’s new home. At the time, he also felt unsettled by several things: a hasty studio rebuild, his son’s starting kindergarten, worries about an escaped pet, news of a former neighbor’s sudden death. In that context, the constancy of the beauty of nature felt like a calming, grounding anchor. “Maybe this sense is what has made this song stick around, and why folks asked to hear it in the early weeks of the pandemic in 2020, as the reality of our situation coincided with an unbelievably gorgeous Atlanta spring,” he says. “Even in the midst of change, churn and tragedy, there is always underlying truth and beauty that comes from the earth, and that is there for us if we just look around and take it in.”
lyrics
Chorus:
Everywhere, everywhere there is beauty
And I see beauty everywhere that I go
Lift me up from despair, come and soothe me
Reach right through me
Hold me harder than I've ever known
Seems like the cost of life
Is so much higher than what we had saved
A sea of frost and ice
Is trying to bury us under its wave
Just look around
Why is it that you’re so afraid?
Chorus
A few dozen years to hang around
And take things past where they were when we came
Some fly away, some run aground,
Some spin in circles, but if it's all the same
I'd rather walk
Can you help me find flowers along the way?
It is awakening, moving, and thought/action provoking. Thank you for holding out the messages in these melodies. The album is guided my awareness towards a deep way of living. ctrammell2020
This work is a reflection of the considerate loving kindness of the composers.
I was fortunate to have been a choir student of Rebekka Goldsmith.
Rob Duyungan
Originally sung by Holocaust survivors in Yiddish, Polish and French, this moving album is now available in a gorgeous LP package. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 11, 2022
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