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My Own Beating Heart (single)

by Jess Klein

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A previously unreleased track from 2019's Back to My Green, this tune is a story about finding the inner strength to believe in yourself. Featuring Gaelynn Lea on Harmonies and Mark Simonsen on piano.

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My Own Beating Heart

Once when I was young I let myself drift
Past the safety buoys off Virginia Beach
My sister swam out to save me
I told them I wasn't thinking
But I knew what I'd done
I just felt so alone
And I tested the strength of their love

It's not really something that I think about
Til the gates crack open and I see the doubt
Simmering under the surface
Times when I've lost my purpose
And it haunts me again
Like the ghost of a child
Who's never quite felt she's enough

How can you tell who you are?
Do you read something in the stars?
Does it come to you through your friends?
Does it make you feel whole in the end?
For that I'd give the flesh of my own beating heart

I love a man so much I can barely breathe
I push against him til he walks away from me
Til I feel my pulse again
And I need to pull him back in
Like a soldier on guard
Or collapsed in his arms
Remembering a world without sin

How can you tell who you are?
Do you read something in the stars?
Does it come to you through your friends?
Does it make you feel whole in the end?
For that I'd give the flesh of my own beating heart

I used to go out walking on that rocky cliff
Struggling to keep it all inside
Now I share it with you
To remember I am alive

How can you tell who you are?
Do you read something in the stars?
Does it come to you through your friends?
Does it make you feel whole in the end?
For that I'd give the flesh of my own beating heart

Copyright 2019 Jess Klein/ASCAP/House of Leo Music

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released September 22, 2020
vocals & guitar - Jess Klein
harmonies - Gaelynn Lea
piano - Mark Simonsen
pedal steel - Mike Grigoni

produced by Mark Simonsen & engineered by Them Canova at Studio M, Durham, NC

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Jess Klein Hillsborough, North Carolina

Rochester, NY native Jess Klein is known for staking out brave lyrical and musical territory with such albums as Wishes Well Disguised (1998), Draw Them Near (2000), Strawberry Lover (2005), City Garden (2006), Bound to Love (2009), Behind A Veil (2012) and Learning Faith (2014) which Folk Radio UK calls “unquestionably the finest album of [her] impressive career.” ... more

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