It’s one thing to talk about accepting our imperfection and fragility, but it’s another thing to experience those qualities in everyday life. How do we handle ourselves when we’re confronted with our own raw, flawed humanity? Do we internalize and carry that around as our forever baggage, or do we accept it as our truth and simply… let it go?, The trapeze artist was always a spectacle of the circus. People flocked from miles and miles around to watch performers fly through the air, walk confidently across razor-thin wires, and otherwise defy the laws of nature itself. This job was not without its risks, and every so often, the acrobat would fall from grace, and their body would plummet to the ground. That itself “the fall” was an event to behold: The god-like man, brought back down to Earth.
We could all learn a thing or two from such fortitude. You and I may not perform to an audience on a nightly basis, but each of us is a trapeze artist or tightrope walker of some kind – a truth made abundantly clear in singer/songwriter Gregory Alan Isakov’s cinematic new single. An intimate, breathtakingly beautiful folk song of failure and acceptance, “The Fall” forces us to confront our imperfections and mistakes, all while keeping in mind that age-old mantra: The show must go on.
“The Fall”, debut single from the new album, “Appaloosa Bones” coming August 18th
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