Name: Merciful Bloom
Duration: P00H04M15S
Description: Merciful Bloom is a reflective and beautifully haunting folk song that feels as if it was extracted from a dream. The song explores sorrow and hope, intimacy and distance, The weight of love and the mystery of the space between lovers.

Merciful Bloom

from Life That Still Grew in the Dust by Paul Moody

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Merciful Bloom is a reflective and beautifully haunting folk song that feels as if it was extracted from a dream. The song explores sorrow and hope, intimacy and distance, The weight of love and the mystery of the space between lovers.

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I dreamed that I was
Wrapped up in a wave
Washed up on the shore where the spotlights they were
All searching for me

Woke up next to you
Golden light on your hair
Soft breath on my chest
It was too much to bear

After I told you you said that somehow you just knew
Winter surrender in hopes of a merciful bloom
Surveyed the landscape for life that still grew in the dust
Walked through the morning and talked with the ghost of my love

Sometimes when I speak
I am miles away
I fidget with rust and I strain for not much
Of anything to say

I walk through the ruins
Places lost to the past
I am trying my best to become friends
With my loneliness

After I told you you said that somehow you just knew
Winter surrender in hopes of a merciful bloom
Surveyed the landscape for life that still grew in the dust
Walked through the morning and talked with the ghost of my love

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from Life That Still Grew in the Dust, track released June 13, 2023
Written by Paul Moody
Produced by Allen Tate & Paul Moody
Mastered by Tyler McDiarmond

Recorded at Better Company Studios

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Paul Moody Chicago, Illinois

Paul Moody is authentically and helplessly a songwriter. Rooted in the folk tradition, his music is organic, passionate, and moving.

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