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Serenity - single

by Julius Smack

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Serenity 03:10
How fleeting, serenity 
Don’t be attached as it falls away
 I watch it turn as it flies away Like a butterfly Don’t be attached to serenity It turns and it crumbles A broken leaf in the waterfall How nice it feels to watch it fall apart Serenity, and then it floats away Dive in I move with the wind Listening to humankind A dragonfly above the water Connected to my mother Whispered memories of distant time And ancestral cries Butterflies fly

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Julius Smack is the Los Angeles multi-instrumentalist musician, producer, & movement experimentalist Peter Hernendez - founder of the influential Practical label.

from Julius Smack:
“Serenity” centers the active processes at play in the process of healing. During the first summer of the pandemic, I was grieving the loss of my uncle to alcoholism while participating in support groups that promoted the “Serenity Prayer.” “Serenity” is a queering of that sentiment that invites my indigenous ancestors, Buddhist ideas of non-attachment, butterflies and dragonflies as talismans for our collective healing.



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How fleeting, serenity

Don’t be attached as it falls away

I watch it turn as it flies away
Like a butterfly
Don’t be attached to serenity
It turns and it crumbles
A broken leaf in the waterfall

How nice it feels to watch it fall apart
Serenity, and then it floats away

Dive in

I move with the wind
Listening to humankind
A dragonfly above the water
Connected to my mother
Whispered memories of distant time
And ancestral cries
Butterflies fly

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released November 22, 2021

all music Julius Smack
mastering by Matthew "Matthewdavid" McQueen

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illustrations by danny espinoza

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