Ephemerals

Ephemerals Your light comes out and I am shaken with tears The sight of you is clear May you reveal what the earth conceals As soon as the soil warms up we will bury our grief My wound is where your light comes in Call me from years long sleep Show me what has grown beneath layers upon layers of dreams Snow as far as the mind eye can see Ephemerals unfurling Blood still frozen I woke up when fall was well underway Only a few rotten apples left May I feel again the sweetness of spring Briefly, and then return to sleep Love is all that it takes For our late embrace Love is all that is takes Will you let me drink from your well of fire When I am numbed with cold and life is falling apart I’ll thrive while the rest of the world is asleep Like bloodroots and windflowers Nestled unseen beneath the earth I’ll grow my roots throughout the winter Until flower be spoken The soil is now warm and I am shaken with tears My wound is where your light comes in Will you reveal what the earth conceals Nothing has grown beneath layers upon layers of dreams Now melting and flooding reality Biting softer Overwintering Will you let me drink from your well of fire When I am numbed with cold and life is falling apart I’ll thrive while the rest of the world is asleep Like bloodroots and windflowers Nestled unseen beneath the earth I’ll grow my roots throughout the winter Until flower be spoken

For more:All music and lyrics written, performed and recorded by Geneviève Beaulieu in Montreal and Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez between 2011 and 2023.

Artwork and mixing by Geneviève Beaulieu and S. Lamothe.

Mastering by Gus Elg at Sky Onion.