Name: Drink The Brine
Duration: P00H05M53S
Description: "This was born out of a personal experience of what is sometimes referred to as Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder, and from that liminal space asking to be fortified by the beauty and strength of the earth and the ocean...to be reconnected by letting go."

Byssus - Drink The Brine

from IN SOLIDARITY: Songs Of Struggle and Liberation by LEFT/FOLK

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"This was born out of a personal experience of what is sometimes referred to as Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder, and from that liminal space asking to be fortified by the beauty and strength of the earth and the ocean...to be reconnected by letting go."

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What bloomed in the bleak did fade
'Neath a light veiled in grey
See the self decay
A salt shell melts away

While you sink
You can't breathe

Pull the pearls from my throat
Sing silver into my bones
Place the opal in my eye
Drink the brine and let the old skin die

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from IN SOLIDARITY: Songs Of Struggle and Liberation, released October 2, 2020
"Drink The Brine" by Byssus from their self titled album, Byssus (2019)

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