Already Forgiven

from Are You in Love? by Basia Bulat

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"When making this album I tried to challenge myself in ways I hadn’t before. I felt like the only way my art could grow was to open my heart to all the things I was afraid of. I wanted to write a song about one of the concepts I’ve struggled with the most since childhood, the idea of forgiveness.

The word means something different to everyone and I have spent a long time trying to figure out what it means to me. I felt like I had been trying for many years to accept and acknowledge pain and past suffering without letting it define me or hold me back, and while writing this song I feel like I finally found a space in my mind that lets those thoughts flow like water through my hands. A place that has clarity and stillness but also moves like a breeze. And it feels like it’s always been there but the path to it is fickle and difficult - singing these lyrics for the album was one of the hardest days for me, because I really wanted to believe myself when I was singing , and that feeling determines its own schedule.

We recorded this song during a session in Joshua Tree, California - one day Andrew recorded the wildest wind outside and sent the signal through a path of electronics and the swirling feeling of those floating melodies that drift through the song are as important as the lyrics to me. The harmonies are there even if you can’t hear them at first listen. It can take years to say it, but you’re already forgiven. " - Basia Bulat

lyrics

-- Lyrics --

They say in time it fades
Forget where you have been
Why can’t I look away from the face I’ve seen
I saw it on those days we spent in the park
Saw you chasing dreams down the boulevard

And I saw you’re already forgiven
It takes so long to say it
Already forgiven
How long I’d let you stay

I can’t escape my name
Now I won’t even try
When my body’s tired of drinking bitter wine
When the cup it breaks in my hand each time
When the cup it breaks in my hand each time

Telling me you’re already forgiven
Will take me years to say it
Already forgiven
How could I let you stay?

I want to leave my mind and let my old ways fall
They took shapes I could not have foreseen
And in my hands this time
I don’t know what I hold
But I know you’re already forgiven
Already forgiven

I took up the pieces of what you made
Tried to build a fire where there was no flame
What I tried to fight in my heart in vain
What I tried to fight in my heart in vain

Telling me you’re already forgiven
It took me years to say it
Already forgiven
How could I let it stay?

Already forgiven
It takes me years to say it
Already forgiven
Why can’t I let it fade?

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from Are You in Love?, released March 27, 2020
Basia Bulat - Vocals, Organ, Synthesizer, Acoustic Guitar
Andrew Scott Woods - Synthesizer, Effects
David Givan - Drums
Seth Kauffman - Bass
Mika Posen - Violin, Viola

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Basia Bulat Montreal, Québec

Basia Bulat is a singer-songwriter who lives in Montreal, Canada. Over the course of five albums, she has brought together an intrinsic contemporary sound with a love of classic folk, country and R&B songwriting.

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