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Ragged Friend

from Tender Heart by Mia Dyson (AUS Store)

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This song is sung both to a friend, who is struggling, maybe with depression or the perception of the weight of the world; and to myself. I need the reminder, just as much as my friend might, that there is indescribable beauty and joy in this world... when I look for it. Jack Gilbert says it achingly in A Brief For The Defence - ‘We must admit there will be music despite everything’

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ragged friend I got you
you got summer sunk again, shadow moon
reaching up the vine to find no end
I’m right here with you my sweet friend

don’t turn down your light
there is another side
no answer to the ‘why’
will you let me see you cry

what have we ever done to have all this
sunlight, air, bare skin and fingertips
one whole universe given free
we forget we are more than we can see

don’t turn down your life
there is another side
an answer to the ‘why’
will let me see you cry

you have seen a truth
we needed breaking down
I have seen it too
we needed breaking down
so we could learn to love

ragged friend you’ve got me and i’ve got you
we’ve got summer laid ahead and bare skin to feel it through
I will hold you, you will hold me we are surrounded by this truth
all our friends are with us now, so many friends that we can’t move

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from Tender Heart, released February 23, 2024
All songs by Mia Dyson, Karl Linder, Daniel Wright & Syd Sidney

Produced, recorded & mixed by Scott Hirsch for Echo Magic
Recorded at Lucy’s Meat Market in Los Angeles, CA
Additional recording at 64 Sound in Los Angeles by Tyler Karmen
& at El Camino in Ojai, CA
Mastered by Ian Sefchick

Mia Dyson - vocals, guitars
Syd Sidney - drums
Dan Wright - bass, backing vocals, drums on ‘These Words’, string arrangement on ‘Golden Light’
Scott Hirsch - river guitars, lap steel, bass on ‘These Words’
Lee Pardini - piano, hammond & wurlitzer
Karl Linder - backing vocal on ‘Thank you’
Yair Evnine - string recording & cello on ‘Golden Light’
Dana Lyn - Violin on ‘Golden Light’

Cover photograph by Birdee
Cover photograph subject Stella De Mont
Artwork by Aaron Taylor-Waldman

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Mia Dyson (AUS Store) Melbourne, Australia

Mia Dyson is a multiple ARIA-nominated & award-winning artist from Melbourne with a powerful grit and gravel voice and guitar-playing landing her voted amongst the top 25 Australian guitarists of all time. Releasing 6 critically-acclaimed albums and touring the world with the likes of Stevie Nicks, Bonnie Raitt and Eric Clapton, Mia has cemented her place as one of the great Australian troubadours ... more

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