On 11.11.19 at 11:11 EDT, Mercury transited the sun while also being in retrograde. Given the life and musical events surrounding our work as D1V1N1T1, and the undeniable significance of this event to us, we undertook to celebrate it in music with "I Am Mercury". Working with Toronto vocalist and pianist, Aurorah (@alexandra-fotopoulos), we have spent the last two weeks in the studio and today we are proud to share the collective effort that is "I Am Mercury." Of significance to the release is that at the very second when this video went live, Mercury was in front of the sun for us here in Toronto and that so do we all stand together in front of the sun in our celebrations of life, its changes, and its gifts. #D1V1N1T1
lyrics
Concrete cage of conscious careless
A mercurial Mastodon
Of mammoth mass
Made of heaven
Here
I am
Mercury
I am hot and I am ice cold
Travelling across the sun
We are for once
Seen as one
On the tip of your tongue
And the hymn you harmonized
With haunted heathens
Here I am
I am the all encompassing embrace
Of all that you are
I hold it all together
In the way no other will
My seams of love
Stitched and sewn until
Intentions pure as gold
And a million times
As old
In my orbit
Nothing else
Nothing more
I am
I am across the sun
A royal reincarnation
I too tip and turn the tides
Lurching to your shores
Time and
In an endless cycle I am
Nothing less
Nothing more
Here I am
I am with you
A part
In heart
And our exceptional exchange
Only few can understand
And to those fluent
In my twisted tyranny
My tied and tiring tongue
I say
Here I am
credits
from Amore Divina,
track released November 11, 2019
Music by Tim Clément and Ben Watson
Vocals and piano by Aurorah
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