Far Side of The Sea - Amy Stroup - Preview

I cant believe #HelenofMemphis is just about a week old. Since this project is def more personal, I wanted to share a little more about some individual songs. Here are some thoughts on the 1st track:
(Vid shot by @bfluke)
Far Side of the Sea:
I wrote this song with Ruslan Odnoralov who produced much of my record. I was playing the picky guitar line that you hear at the beginning and he recorded a sample of it and started looping it. I loved how that sounded, so I just started mumbling words over the melody line. After bouncing lines back and forth with Ru, the whole song fell out within an hour or so. It was sort of that, zone out and let the subconscious take over which I think always lets the most interesting lyrics come out. Ruslan added the horns and other tones on the track and his lovely Julie came over and played bass.
When I was reflecting on the mostly subconscious lyrics, I realized that there were really close to a Psalm my mother kept on our family refrigerator growing it. Psalm 139 says,” Even if I make my bed in the depths (hell) you are there.” I think that is where the line, “If I go to the far side of the sea” must have come from.
Yes, when I wrote the song I had was going through a breakup which definitely brought on the swirl of the miserable unknown feelings…but as I’ve talked to many friends who have told me although they are married or in a long term relationship, they were feeling a similar fear of unknowns and loneliness. It made me start rethinking “alone”. I think it’s fair to say connection is more than being with another human. You can be very alone in a room full of good people. What I am finding out for myself at least, the more connected I am standing in my own body, in my own spirit… the more connected I feel in all of life… with other people, spiritually, with the big world. I think that’s where this songs is for me today, a prayer/ mantra to stay connected and not to forget we are really never alone no matter how many people are around us, or are not …and that we really are always very connected to our own divinity and sacredness, it’s actually something that no person or experience can strip us of.

[@BiBoFan]

This song is beautiful 😍😍😍 Can't wait to hear the whole song❤

[@leeboke5136]

it's beautiful. Cannot find the lyrics of the song anywhere. Would it be possible for me to get it?