Alex Henry Foster - Springtime (Official Music Video)

First single from the upcoming album “The Fragile Beauty (Of New Morning Hopes)”, the song “Springtime” echoes the late Palestinian poet and writer Mahmoud Darwish’s references about the metaphoric nature of spring as the juxtaposing struggle between our personal faith in the profound longing for intangible evolution and the collective desire to experience a palpable long-awaited rebirth. “Springtime” reflects on the painful essence of having to look for initial signs of life when death seems to be lying underneath every aspect of the existential beauties we can’t truly embrace until we are ready to let go and willing to be transformed through its self-determining midst. I wrote that song in a cathartic period of my life, characterized by deep emotional turmoils where I felt like I had to either choose to abandon myself in an uncontrollable stream of inner mutation or to remain in the stagnating status quo of my own declining demise. “Springtime” expresses Darwish’s resilient sentiment that hope is a brutal necessity to become the renewed vision we nurture in the face of desperation: “I will live, even if life betrays me, and I will dream, even if dreams abandon me.” The music video for “Springtime” is an allegory to the existential rebirth and transformative enlightenment I found in the city of Tangier, a unique and dazzling place, where time is suspended and its implacable grip doesn’t have any authority on dreams designed to be seen into the lights, where life is a perpetual invitation to self-reclamation, re-appropriation of joy, and personal reinvention. Follow Alex Henry Foster: YouTube:    / alexhenryfoster   Facebook:   / alexhenryfosterofficial   Instagram:   / alexhenryfoster   Twitter:   / alexhfoster   Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3xxV7... iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/al... Lyrics: Springtime The fragile beauty of new morning hopes Whispers arise from afar Fading like memories That keeps on calling my name Like everyone, like everyone, like everyone Springtime, springtime Springtime, springtime Your grief rises afar Your grief rises afar Shadows covering our dreams to glow Whispering secrets in a darkness we can feel Like widows, I’ve learned to kneel In a far-distance strand We’ve lost our faith in yesterday’s embrace When love has given what time has been taking away Has been taking away Echoes, like the sea Have yet to come undone Echoes, like the sea Have yet to come undone I’m drifting away Seasons await to fall Like hopeless children Turning into, turning into, turning into Another whispering sky, whispering sky Like everyone, like everyone We’re drifting away Shadows covering our dreams to glow Whispering secrets in a darkness we can feel Like widows, I’ve learned to kneel In a far-distance strand We’ve lost our faith Springtime, springtime Springtime, springtime Your grief rises afar Your grief rises afar Shadows covering our dreams to glow Whispering secrets in a darkness we can feel Like widows, I’ve learned to kneel In a far-distance strand We’ve lost our faith in yesterday’s embrace When love has given what time has been taking away Has been taking away Springtime, springtime I’ve been drifting away Like everyone, like everyone, like everyone