Ben Noble  |  Beneath Your Wings

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For immediate release

BEN NOBLE TO RELEASE NEW SINGLE "BENEATH YOUR WINGS" ON NOVEMBER 22, 2019

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Written in the midst of an unrelenting winter, "Beneath Your Wings" is steeped in imagery featuring winter winds and a place of longing for spring to come. Noble's own inner-winter was brought about as he began seeing a professional counselor to face demons that had plagued him his whole life. "Beneath Your Wings" came to be as Noble processed two significant moments in succession: the loss of a pregnancy followed immediately by a new pregnancy resulting in a healthy baby boy. How does one celebrate a new life while mourning one lost? Inspired by Melvin Dixon's Heartbeats, "Beneath Your Wings" plays with simple word pairings; a stutter-stop way of relaying a narrative that journeys from grieving to acceptance.

 

This journey is reflected musically by beginning simply and delicately, with light piano and tender, ethereal vocals. A feeling of renewal is ushered in halfway through as the out-of-time piano part yields to a building drum groove into an eventual burst of sound. It is the third single from his forthcoming record. The LP is on track to debut in February 2020. 

 

Lyrics: 

Knee-drop, please stop, wait

Flutter, quiver, heartbeat swept away

Ping-pong, ping-pong, pain

Brute earth, fluke birth truer, truer weighs

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I cry

 

Bluebird, new dirt, wait

Bitter, withered heartbeat somewhere faint

Ping-pong, ping-pong, pain

Bloom first, bluebird, broken by the blade

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You cry

 

Keep me somewhere safe

Worry, wander, truer, truer weighs

 

Breath, my heart's forever beat outside my chest

I see you in the heather there

Death, forever weaved, what hasn't happened yet

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I see you there

I see you

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Keep me in the shade beneath

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