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Cycles

by Heirloome

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Zovi In fifteen minutes, Heirloome turns grief into a beautiful, thoughtful flower, gazing skyward while never forgetting the earth below. Thank you for this.
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1.
Wrote you a letter on my phone
 Cos you’re not coming home
 Breaking soft and sweet
 Cos I can't make you speak
 No I can't make you speak With no address now to send it to
 Once it was just me and you
 Now you’re all around
 In stillness and in sound
 In the stillness and in the sound Brother dearest mine
 I’m just drifting now, losing time
 Brother dearest mine
 I’m just drifting now, all the time
 All the time And one of my sisters, she dreams of a bird
 One she can’t save, and I know how it hurts
 All of us waiting for the death bell to ring
 So while we go on,
 Tell me - why do we sing? Why do we sing?
 Why do we sing?
 Why do we sing? All the time
 All the time All the time
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And in the dream he is a bird I’m teaching how to fly And I know he has to go He was born for this goodbye Twisting, parting ways Stretching out forever To the sky Oh, brother mine The male line And in the dream I see your face Young and old at once And our grandfather is there - He’s combing out your hair There is a cycle to all things Some of us, we need help To grow wings So in the dream just see me there Flowers at my breast And in my hands are tiny seeds They're blooming in a nest There is a cycle to all things Some of us, we need help To grow wings There is a cycle to all things Some of us We need help Flying with these wings Oh, brother mine The male line The male line The male line
3.
Will it eat me gently, when it does? Will it burn me softly, when it does? Will soil return me gracefully to seed? A gardenia, catching flight to become the breeze? Brother, tell me - did it hurt? Or was it like being born again in the dirt? Did someone hold your hand? And did you dream? Did you call the angels in? Did you think of me? Oh the room, it gets emptier Year by year And the veils that lie between our lives Get thinner still… Year by year Year by year Year by year

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My debut EP, written for my late brother, who passed in 2019.
A grief record, that hopes to be a soft place to land for anyone who needs it.

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released November 19, 2021

Produced by Santpoort
String arrangement by Dryden Thomas
Mastered by Jack Prest

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Heirloome Australia

There is a giant lily that grows, slowly, in the Himalayas. For most of its life, it appears to be an unassuming collection of heart-shaped leaves - until one day when it sprouts to 3 meters tall and unfurls in to angel-horn flowers.

For queer Australian artist Heirloome, a self-confessed ‘weird kid and late bloomer’, this flower is more than just an analogy - it’s a prophecy.
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