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I Don't Know the Way - Single

by Arend Lee Jessurun

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I Don't Know the Way 03:01
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You cannot choose from where you come but only if you’ll stay. Not every harbor is a home, but maybe for today. The winds of change are blowing soon, and soon they’ll blow away. I leave the only place I’ve known, but I don’t know the way. I don’t know the way, I don’t know the way. I know just where I want to go, and I’ll be there someday, oh, but I don’t know the way. I walk the dolorosa path, I wander, passing by the garden where the grapes of wrath came spilling from his eyes. I heard the seer strike a chord, I heard St. Thomas say, “I don’t know where you’re going, Lord, and I don’t know the way.” I don’t know the way, I don’t know the way. I know just where I want to go, and I’ll be there someday, oh, but I don’t know the way. The past, a ghost, the future, blind, point only to one end: the now where all of human kind look out and back again. And all through every changing tide and time that cannot stay, be thou forever by my side for I don’t know the way. I don’t know the way, I don’t know the way. I know just where I want to go, and I’ll be there someday, oh, but I don’t know the way. Oh, but I don’t know the way.

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“I Don’t Know the Way” is a dreamy folk ballad inspired by Brandi Carlile, Leonard Cohen, T. S. Eliot, and the search for a life of meaning.

I was listening to NPR’s New Music Friday, on my way to a coffee shop that was, as it turned out, closed, when this melody presented itself to me. I felt inspired after having heard Brandi Carlile’s song “The Mother,” and sang this new melody into my phone. Perhaps it was my unconscious mind coming up with an alternate melody for that song (as it turns out, my verses scan in the same meter as Brandi’s). It was a few more months and several drafted verses before I came up with lyrics I felt I could sing. I had always wanted to write a song in the style of Leonard Cohen’s “Suzanne,” with the second verse taking an aside and contemplating a religious figure. Similarly, I’d always wanted to write one of those rambling folk songs about travel, but travel in an inward, spiritual sense.

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released September 27, 2019

Arend Jessurun on vocals, guitars, & bass guitar (thanks Paul Smith for lending the bass).
Produced, mixed, & mastered by Arend Jessurun.
Artwork by Isaac Lee.
Words and Music © 2019 Arend Lee Jessurun (BMI).

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Arend Lee Jessurun Los Angeles, California

Arend Lee Jessurun (they/them) is a nonbinary singer-songwriter and producer writing sincere, sometimes psychedelic, chamber folk. Their music explores the genderqueer experience and Christian faith through a hopeful lens. Arend's pure singing voice, nimble guitar arrangements, and poetic sensibility have earned them comparisons to Simon & Garfunkel, Iron & Wine, and Nick Drake. ... more

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