Requiem

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I spent most of my twenties processing my dad’s death – thinking, writing and singing about it. In some ways, I feel like I processed it so fully that I grew a thick callus around the part of the loss that was very raw and fragile. At times I’ve resented the tough skin which was necessary to get through that time.

I wrote Requiem on the plane ride home to Montana to mark the 10 year anniversary of his death. It felt like a significant milestone, and I was curious to see how my grief would change.

lyrics

Ten years a requiem
Can I let it go now?
And all the things lost
Can I let them go now?

Can I let them go now?
Can I let them go?

I held your suffering
I didn’t want it!
I got a tough skin
I didn’t want it!

I didn’t want it
I didn’t want it

The salt is thickest at the bottom of the sea
I know it - see my tongue I have licked it!
I followed you down to the bottom of the sea
I grew gills, my blood thickened

I've got a tough skin
I've got a tough skin

Ten years a reckoning
Are we in the clear now?
And every word spent
Are we in the clear now?

Are we in the clear now?
Are we in the clear?

I've got a tough skin
I've got a tough skin

From the moment that I heard
Like a blueprint in my blood
It was comin’ like Biblical flood
I know it’s not the way we wanted it to be
But still the waters rose in that imminent sea!

I've got a tough skin
I've got a tough skin

credits

released November 22, 2019
Rachael Cardiello - voice, viola
James Burrows - guitar
Chris Pruden - synth
Connor Walsh - bass
Ian Morris - drums
Dave Brandwein - array of pleasing sounds

Song by Rachael Cardiello (SOCAN)
Produced by Dave Brandwein
Co-produced by Rachael Cardiello
Recorded in More Sound Recording Studios (Syracuse, NY) and Galaxy Smith Recording Studio (Brooklyn, NY)
Engineered by Jose Varona, Jonathan Smith and Jason Jocko Randall
Mixed by Dave Brandwein
Mastered by Jason Jocko Randall

Photo by Michael Cardiello
Design by Jon Cardiello

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