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After a near-death experience, I sought out frank conversations and writings about death. I came across some words by Ira Byock, a palliative care doctor, expressing an idea, found in many cultures, that there are only a few things that I might need to say if I were dying or if one of my loved ones were dying:

“Thank you
I love you
Forgive me
I forgive you”

Around these ‘last words’, Karl and I wrapped a prayer to die well, whether together or separately, contemplating being the first to go, or being left behind to continue living.

lyrics

I hope we are together
in our last moments of life
and that we believe
we are about to die
and there will be time
to look you in the eyes
everything goes quiet
i’m telling you

thank you
I love you
forgive me
I forgive you

but you might have to leave me
be first into that light
or I might have to leave you
if it’s my time
and one of us stays
in the world a while
either way
i’ll be saying

thank you
I love you
forgive me
I forgive you

credits

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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