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Surrender

from Learning Faith by Jess Klein

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When I first started writing the album, I was just at the beginning of falling in love with someone. All my fears about relationships were screaming in my head all the time, “don’t let him in!”. But then whenever I’d just meditate, I’d just hear the word “Surrender” and feel a sense of peace. There’s that faith thing again - listening to my intuition. I brought the song into Feathers and we demo’d it, just me and the guitar. When I got home later that night he had sent me an mp3 of this super 80’s/Eurythmics sounding track and I was like “oh hell yeah!” (I loved the Eurythmics). Also,
I once had a past life regression specialist tell me that in multiple past lives I’d been killed for speaking up for myself or my people. She said she spent our session removing a karmic plate from over my heart and sword from my throat. I was thinking about that when I wrote the lyrics for Surrender.

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surrender surrender surrender
lay down my sword and shield
surrender surrender surrender
kneel on this battlefield
take it apart
the metal plate over my heart
leave the whole thing revealed

surrender surrender surrender
heed the voice that drowns out all I’ve know
surrender surrender surrender
hear the drum that beats all on its own
driving me to what some part of me knew
but I’ve never been shown

When it all falls down
and returns to dust
in the thick of night
and i wake up stoned
down to my bones
and i cannot fight
feel my way out into God knows what
but it must be right

surrender surrender surrender
where my sweet acceptance lives
surrender surrender surrender
where angels heal me with a kiss
a choir sings
voices lift
manna for this

When it all falls down
and returns to dust
in the thick of night
and i wake up stoned
down to my bones
and i cannot fight
feel my way out into God knows what
but it must be right
feel my way out into God knows what
And I see the light
the light
the light

surrender surrender surrender

credits

from Learning Faith , released July 24, 2014
Professor Feathers - bass, air organ, arp synthesizer, mellotron, loops, whispers
Billy Masters - electric guitar
Rob Hooper - drums

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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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