What Will You Be?

from I'll Show You the Night by Brightdarkdawn

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A distant star has been watching a blue-green planet turn, circle, rise, set, and change through vast eternities.

The distant star is old, seeing the Earth since her birth 4.5 billion years ago. The miraculous Earth has lived unfathomable lives through her existence. She has been molten, clouded, gaseous, frozen, and now in her current incarnation: blue-green and teeming with life. She has seen many changes and transformations. What will she be next?

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Do you know,
What you are?
Or how you seem,
From a distant star?

Alive encircling,
So many ones,
Who are you?
What will you be?
Who are you?
What will you be?

Could be fire,
Could be green,
So many things,
You have seen.
Could be blue,
Could be sea,
And many more,
You’ll surely be.

We’re always yearning to become,
Never more than what we were.
We’re circles returning,
We are circling ones.
Who are you?
What have you been?

You are beauty,
You are sublime,
A speck of light,
In a sea of time.
One bright moment,
In some vast dream,

Who are you?
What have you been?
Who are you?
What have you been?

I recall your gleaming,
Jeweled and white,
So many ways,
You’ve turned through night,
I’ve watched you breathing,
You are alive,
So many days,
I’ve watched you rise.

Could be fire,
Could be green,
So many things,
You have seen.
Could be blue,
Could be sea,
And many more,
You’ll surely be.
You’ll surely be.

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from I'll Show You the Night, track released April 22, 2022
Written by Anne Carol Mitchell
Produced by Maryam Qudus and Anne Carol Mitchell

Recorded at Tiny Telephone
Oakland, CA by Maryam Qudus

Mixed by Maryam Qudus
Mastered by Sarah Register

Guitar, banjo, vocals: Anne Carol Mitchell
Synths, bass, beats: Maryam Qudus
Percussion: Cody Rhodes

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Brightdarkdawn is songwriter/composer Anne Carol Mitchell. With intricate guitar and nature-based lyrics, the music brings listeners more beautifully into narratives of Earth’s deep time

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