Name: Can't Control
Duration: P00H04M18S
Description: “Can’t Control is about being unable to get rid of the repetitive intrusive thoughts that kept coming into my head. Writing this song was a way of surrendering to my inability to solve, fix, or expediate my way out of an unbearable mind-body state.”

Can't Control

by Well Sister

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“Can’t Control is about being unable to get rid of the repetitive intrusive thoughts that kept coming into my head. Writing this song was a way of surrendering to my inability to solve, fix, or expediate my way out of an unbearable mind-body state.”

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It all went sideways
The mast hit a wind it could not a break
A task it could not face
But I heard my mother say:

“This hell will one day be dim
You’ll look back oh and see a thread runs through -
it always carried you - it joins the past to truth.”

So when the emptiness comes
Be patient my dear
It’s just making space for new life to appear

And you can’t control the speed
You can’t control the need
So please be gentle with the seed

But grace does not take the pain away
She sits by oh your side like a dove –
She opens your lungs
She holds your breath in love

So when the emptiness comes
Be patient my dear
It’s just making space for new life to appear

And you can’t control the speed
You can’t control the need
So please be gentle with the seed

Tend to it on your knees
Tend to it on your knees
And it’ll rise up to meet your need
But you can’t control the speed
You can’t control the need
So please be gentle with the seed

credits

released April 22, 2022
Jaymie Von Riesen - songwriting, vocals, rhodes
Natalie Bohrn - upright + electric basses, harp
Eric Roberts - acoustic guitar, drums, percussion, alto saxophone, bg vocals, producing, recording, mixing

Mastered by Philip Shaw Bova

Artwork by Natalie Bohrn and Eric Roberts

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Well Sister Winnipeg, Manitoba

From saxophone, to harp, to the gritty bowing of an upright bass, Well Sister is the dynamic, earnest exploration of a soul grappling to find hope. The lyrics and vocals are a raw, intimate, and brave testimony to the intricate structures of the human mind, and the gift of courage found at the bottom of the deep, dark well of spiritual reconstruction. ... more

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