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Deliberately
01:46
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"i went to the woods because i wished to live deliberately"
to find comfort in the crackling, to find solace in thinking too much about everything
to let blue light fizzle
"to front only the essential facts of life, and see if i could not learn what it had to teach,
and not, when i came to die, discover that i had not lived"
and to ponder the water and to feel insightful
and to let the car sounds on the road several feet away become the birds
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I Drove North Two Times
03:34
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i drove up north both days last weekend, once for a tattoo in bellingham and the other to see the trees out past sedro-wooley now that the smoke is mostly gone. and the funny thing is the tattoo is of a little scene of the road going out past sedro-wooley and it feels a little redundant to now carry that with me always as i’m driving there, like should i even need to go anymore or can i just look at my arm? but then it's like, what uncaptureable thing does the nature hold, and is it meaning or is it beauty, and is it just me or is it like a holy thing. and my friend was there too on the second day and i always have this experience where like, okay i’m not religious but maybe i see the light hit the mountain right and i’m like “that’s god.” and it feels like a lot to tackle – religion, but is religion not just subscribing to a specific type of meaning? and the leaves were red by the river and we listened to a couple good cds. and we wandered around for a little and we saw a beaver, which i’ve never seen before, and so maybe that beaver was god, because is experiencing something for the first time holy, like the guarantee that something will never happen again has to mean something.
i felt held and felt
the red trees, a little wind
and now, in this place
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Song for Dancing
04:32
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i took my shoes off and went outside...
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Reflecting the Sky
02:55
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the ocean blue, reflecting the sky
the ocean glare, reflecting the sky
honestly just taking it in
taking the time
feeling the rush to keep it all in
breathing
breathing
and the overgrowth overgrows
through my skeleton, through my bones
through my skeleton, through my bones
through my skeleton, through my bones
our bodies old, reflecting the sky
feeling the rush to keep it all in
honestly just taking it in
the ocean blue, reflecting the sky
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Steps Outside
04:18
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Tess Berger Seattle, Washington
trying to find a way to find authenticity without trying
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