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Rose of Jericho

by Jessica Smucker

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2nd single released in advance of next year's album, After the Meteor

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Darkest desert night
when the moon looms large and the sky burns red
Still my beating heart
All my colors fade and I’m left for dead

If you see me curling between the rains
like a fist clenched tightly around the pain
I can wait like this for a thousand days
I will spring to life when you call my name
I’m a rose of Jericho

Do you see me here
like a withered branch, like a widowed bride?
Do you understand
how it feels to love when you’re dead inside?

If you see me curling between the rains
like a fist clenched tightly around the pain
I can wait like this for a thousand days
I will spring to life when you call my name
I’m a rose of Jericho

There’s a story going around that I’m a dried up piece
of old debris, brittle as a winter tumbleweed
Just a drop to quench my thirst
I’ll stretch my arms across the earth
and white blooms rise from the fallow dirt

Be my wind and rain
when I find my way back into your bed
Let’s not resurrect all the time we lost
or the words unsaid

If you see me curling between the rains
like a fist clenched tightly around the pain
I can wait like this for a thousand days
I will spring to life when you call my name
I’m a rose of Jericho
I’m a rose of Jericho
I’m a rose of Jericho

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released October 1, 2021
Written by Jessica Smucker, copyright 2020
Produced & recorded by Chad Kinsey
Mixed by Peter Rydberg at Studio 1935
Mastered by Dan Coutant at Sun Room Audio

Matt Thomas: synthesizers, electric piano, organ, drum machine
Paul Murr: drums
Mike Bitts: bass
Chad Kinsey: guitar

Photo by Janece Flippo

Lyric video animation by Haley Monson

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Jessica Smucker Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Jessica has performed all over the Eastern U.S. and has won several national songwriting contests including the Connecticut Folk Festival and SolarFest. She has opened for notable acts like Cheryl Wheeler and Bill Staines, and shared festival stages with Patty Larkin, Dar Williams and Antje Duvekot. Her third full-length album, Lucid Stories, Tentative Lies, is due out in September 2020. ... more

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