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Let it Rise

from Visitors by Howard Simon

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Really old roots, this one – from Jerusalem in 1980. I had a close group of friends there, including one person who – for reasons I never quite understood – wouldn’t ever quite share all the wonderful things inside her. This song recalls her. I’ve also always loved the interweaving of songs ever since I heard “Scarborough Fair/Canticle” as a kid, and this song gives me a small chance to do that – as well as to finish with a great big Phil Spector-ish vocal build, with my friend Loryn Barbeau doing a pretty fair Ronnie at the end!

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Let it Rise

Thinking about the good times while I’m talking about the bad
Feeling what it feels to lose the best friend I ever had
But life always gives you something when something else gets lost
So you’re never really empty-handed once you learn to ignore the cost

Looking out at times ahead while my heart beats at time gone by
Longing to touch your fingers, since I can no longer touch the sky
But day always leads to evening, and the night’s never far away
And love leads to someone leaving even when another someone wants to stay

And it all comes down to you
Every step, every inch, every mile
It all comes down, my friend, when you smile
So free, when you smile at me, when you smile

Well you spend your days in confidence in the light of the sun
But you spend your nights in darkness wondering what it is you’ve done
When you gonna find out you’re the only one who knows
Just what you’ve been doing and just what you let go?

Well, you let the wind blow back your hair, thinking how good it feels
Then you turn and blow through someone’s life with a love you just reveal
When you gonna find out that the tiny taste you give
Just makes us all so thirsty to try and drink in the life you live?

Let it rise, let it rise, like the morning sun
Let it rise, let it rise, through the things you’ve done
Let it rise, let it rise, won’t you pick up everyone
And let it rise?

Well, you ask the open questions like you breathe the open air
While you’re searching for the phrases to show yourself you care
When you gonna find out that the answer’s in your eyes
If you’d listen to the sunlight as you look up toward the skies?

And you ask me to forgive you for the love you took away
And you feel a small injustice that it took so long to say
When you gonna find out that forgiveness isn’t much
‘Til you feel yourself forgiving and you find someone to touch?

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Let it rise, let it rise, like the morning sun
(And it all comes down to you, every step, every inch, every mile)
Let it rise, let it rise, through the things you’ve done
(It all comes down to you, every step, every inch, every mile)
Let it rise, let it rise, won’t you pick up everyone
(It all comes down to you, every step, every inch, every mile)
And let it rise

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from Visitors, released June 27, 2016

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Howard Simon San Francisco, California

I am a San Francisco-based singer-songwriter. My songs are about love (romantic and otherwise), family, morality and mortality. If there is a common thread to my songs, it is the people we love, the desire to do right, and the hope and fear, the peace and the struggle that constitute life bring wonder in addition to its joy and sadness, and sometimes loss. ... more

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