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the lovers

by liza garza

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    i made the decision to offer this album here on bandcamp for those of yall who would like to contribute directly towards my lifes work and towards the goal of releasing this album to vinyl this year! your purchase will fully support upcoming releases as well as specialized items to accompany this project.

    in addition i will be sharing more about the creative process for this album as well as a couple behind the scenes photos. 2023 was such a ride! so grateful to arrive this side with a project im truly proud of.

    giving thanks for my team and for your constant support and love over the years. i pray you find some benefit in the lovers.

    full gratitude yall. full joy.
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1.
infinite 06:02
we gonna roll with the infinite infinite we gonna roll with the infinite the infinite we back home we back home we back home we back home we back home we back home when the sky opens above us and the earth sinks beneath us when our lives are revealed to us with no veils as decorations our consequences will be waiting you will beg for that second you spent hesitating to return to you to undo to redo rewrite rewind re love realize life is fleeting life is leaving with every breath every bounty is seeking you to find it every abundance is asking you to claim it what more do you need then the earth laid out before you then the sky held high above you begging for you to trail blaze blaze trails that not even shooting stars can out shine you are magical and amazingly wonderful i swear by my lord you are beautiful and worthy and written a word is read and you are giving a reason a rhythm a passion a purpose beckons you to take flight a new and pure life awaits in the decisions that you make in the patience that you practice in the rituals you make constant in the company you keep in the evil you condemn in the love you commune in the violence that brings justice or the justice that brings violence our lord is so sufficient and every seemingly meaningless moment significant and how magnificent that this wonder is written in the laughter of the progeny after you and the crys of the ancestors before you how could anyone ever convince you that you are here alone without a home when generations embrace you from every angle and angles are seeking for a reason to surround you just waiting and watching your lips to move in motions that remind us to the name of God that remind us the the Grace of God let the rain come forth and the vegitation give way and the flowers finally bloom filling the air with such a sweet and familiar fragrance fountains i swear i have once bathed in souls im certain i could name them if it wasnt for how beautiful they now appear its prior form could never compare your Lord will always be there in your darkest hours of despair you Lord will always be there in the darkest hours of dispair
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how can i not love you when you make me want to run away from here and towards god
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feel just like a ladybug sign of luck and love feel just like a firefly lighting up the sky feel just like a honeybee life is sweet on me feel just like a hummingbird message of good words holy gratitude a covering of goodness has graced us and held us thru heart breaks that are too brutal to even mention provided a comfort for the ones who gives comfort reminding us that love is a form of coming home to ones self a means of tending to the cuts that have bled open far too long perhaps healing begins at the core our closest parts the danger of a leading with the open heart is the worthwhile risk of unspeakable pain yet our everlasting shield remains this sweet reminder this sweet refrain i am closer to you than your jugular vein i am closer to you than your jugular vein and what is it called when you are too tired to feel angry how much of yourself can you discard in this life without completely disappearing and i know their comfort in their coldness creates cruel casualties so casually but know your beauty outshines the white moon in a mawlid sky my sister you sacred scripture rising sun chaser feet to the ground head to the sky stretching the entire expanse with kindness do you know how special it is that you always seem to find a new way to give thanks that you cant seem to pass by a blooming flower without stopping to acknowledge its beauty and calling upon a higher power that you take appreciation and grace it upon all that has been taken for granted lush gardens rush forward beneath where your feet are planted beauty stopping to honor beauty and remembering the most beautiful the truth of your reality wrapped up in the essence of the most gracious most merciful what a divine creature to be written within this divine signature may the peace of god be upon the wombs the women who light the world with their inner sanctuary no wonder all that is beautiful journeys towards love and keeps finding each other no wonder we journey towards our dreams and keep finding each other feel just like a ladybug sign of luck and love feel just like a firefly lighting up the sky feel just like a honeybee life is sweet on me feel just like a hummingbird message of good words and in my body i know there is an answer to every question and in my spirit i know there is a solution to every challenge and in my tradition i know there is a herb for every ailment sacred solutions solving soothing saving seas of believers so now i choose to sing at the first sign of a rising sun and this is the way i come home so now i choose to dance at the first glance of a crescent moon and this is the way i come home so now i choose to laugh at the first hint of a budding romance and this is the way i come home so now i choose to run towards the first thought of a righteous deed and this is the way i come home so now i choose to forgive at the first grain of a cruel offense and this is the way i come home so now i choose to pray at the first spark of a new inspiration and this is the way i come home my sister you sacred scripture rising sun chaser feet to the ground head to the sky stretching the entire expanse with kindness you are a breath of freedom you are a plentiful harvest you are a gentle smile you are a safe haven you are a bountiful blessing you make life better make life worth living and i love you and i love you and i love you feel just like a ladybug sign of luck and love feel just like a firefly lighting up the sky feel just like a honeybee life is sweet on me feel just like a hummingbird message of good words
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my heart is wide open the taste of love stays fresh on my lips soft in my heart there is no anguish no armor no army no war no weapon no weary that can keep me from the constant state of being a lover give thanks
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the lovers 03:12
the lovers two brave souls said yes witnessed their hearts more home to each other than themselves seen themselves in one another as one tended gently to the garden of the heart cultivated nourished paid mind so all life could be given a grand blooming fully flourish a full field of wonder ready they discover the answers will only come with movement like the wind like the water like the sky stayed constant with each moment they knew each now was the one most valuable was the one most worthy of attention got all them moments and nows to add up to seconds to add up to minutes to add up to hours to add up to days to add up to weeks to add up to months got them a whole heap of goodness a whole load of glory got them 51 years of i do of yes of again of more of enter of welcome of stay got them to riches that last lifetimes for there is no longer lasting legacy than true love all their progeny will testify will take risks and walk courageously in love courageously with love because that’s what we do because that’s what they did tied love to our blood deeply imbedded in our dna in our genetic memory in our unnamed recollections in our nature in our lineage becomes what we are made of becomes what we are known for there they go them lovers there they go them builders there they go them growers them preservers of tradition them keepers of heart connections them champions of the vulnerable them wild and free folk with all that wealth
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for the days when tired feels too heavy when my story is too much of a burden for my lover to witness i find healing in my solitude in the freedom of belonging to only myself and the honor of carrying my own truth wide across my back like wings amongst an eternal sky infinite like the heavens rich as water
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i was scared to mourn out loud and for such a long period of time so i would write pieces of my longing inside short and random text messages or brief emails or in long hugs to strangers knowing i would never see them again i would disperse my cry for help in sonnets that i never shared tears camouflaged by the beauty of the moon she is sensitive she is emotional she is passionate but all the while I was just grieving grief makes me feel nauseous makes all my insides feel like they fighting to make home in a foreign land scrambling for peace like if they dont find it soon enough it'll be too late having knowledge that it is coming but no knowledge what is coming hear the thunder feel the shaking all the hurry all the anxious all the frenzy wont stay gone long enough wont forget me like a star crossed love obsessed with despair full of this tangled type of empty that Instinct tells you to feed and to starve all at the same time mangled mixed messages keep me from finding a remedy to fix me symptoms switch from whispers to wailing shape shifting grief takes a taste of every emotion and spits it up in my belly my body dont know how to digest a tinge of jealousy a sprinkle of anger a slice of love a teaspoon of hate a heap of fear a cup of anguish a dash of danger a portion of crazy where u beg to remember and forget all at the same time where you suppose to house such a strange recipe that dont think its strange at all even will toss itself around with itself like you a mixing bowl set the timer on forever and give itself the wrong temperature so it stays cooking even longer no preparation or preheating pre warning just cold and callus death just came all at once and Im suppose to go back to normal living like things aint change me like this melancholy inside me aint left a mark took the butterfly feeling you get when you riding a rollercoaster or falling in love and changed it forever now just feel like these overgrown wasps and hornets and bees and each one territorial over this sweet nectar of grief scavengers at war stinging everything they touch dont make me wanna seek adventure anymore cuz it has a haunting thats too similar stays with me too easy to recall makes cameos of calamities inside commonalities pops up unannounced and overstays its welcome keeps wanting to make friends be friendly its persistence is sickening courts me like its certain Ima say yes throws its pride away like all it sees in me is reward dont care for its reputation loves me the way he was loving me pursues me aggressive and Im suppose to make sense of that act like it aint changed me shifted my insides tore a tendon washed me over washed me under drowning in this third person narrative wincing at having all the creative control and having none of the creative control all at the same time so today I thought maybe I have to navigate this like I did my nightmares use to have violent visions when sleep fell till I taught myself that i could fight those traumas from the inside out team up on what was hurting me oppressing me kill the killer I remember that day I learned my power seen my ancestors smile and then sigh cuz how Im suppose to cut this grief so precise and discard the deadly parts this self surgery that feels more like detonating a time bomb cept the wires is veins and arteries and they covered in blood and its dark with no sunrise in sight makes me wanna drop all that's heavy curl up tight and pray for my mamas hands on me or my fathers prayers or my lovers laugh and there it is again there it is again this grief that makes me feel so nauseous
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for the men who have forgotten how to love for the women who have chosen to forger for the children who are witnessing the drought for the elders who are weeping we have not given up we have not forfeited we have not accepted defeat we have only exhausted every logical solution that is why it appears as if we have gone made
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alchemy 01:38
i made friends with my loneliness we have an inner knowing about each other that turns torment into comfort instead of dreading nightfall i patiently await his arrival bathe in oils light candles prepare myself as i would for my favorite lover we sit find memories to cherish tell old stories of remember when of how come and in between we find moments of stillness so profound no one has witnessed me the way he has no one has sat with me for so long let me cry hour after hour night after night no one has let me grieve without tryin to fix me no one has held me close without tryin to take advantage of me no lover has laid his head in my lap ready and willing to receive all of me exactly as i am we have an understanding a type of chemistry a connection that makes stone of our agreement to always be present should i ever forget the magic of me
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you come to women for their sweetness for the way their gentleness always provides a home for you you dont have to ask her for her entire self her secret is that she does not need heartbreak to open to make an entrance to become soft she is the gateway between heaven and earth between you and yourself there are riches and wonders and healing she carries abundance in her hips on her lips a constant prayer she holds it high on your behalf believes in your dreams celebrates your existence in the midst of chaos reminds you to the peace of the divine plants a reminder in your heart that grows on your face cultivates faith and reaps a bountiful harvest a plentiful portion an abundance of mercy flows forward freely forever
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all in my wildest dreams love aint the wildest thing you take me higher everything asks me if i truly believe in the power of love there is a story longing to be told that leads our best selves back home boy meets girl again but for the very first time he sees his future our eyes met and knew we circled the throne of god next to each other with just one glance we made home for one another to return to self we embody the truth of the moment and make love out of thin air (our love is wider wider than the sun your love it takes me higher higher than the sun your love it feels much brighter brighter than the sun you are the only one our love is brighter) who am i to tell the turner of hearts what love looks like in winter all heaven and earth sing a song in praise of two hearts answering yes we hold hope in high regard and beckon new life take shape as we dream holy gratitude a covering of goodness an instant increase the pace of freedom welcomes every expression a place to call home we asked each other the same questions and heard the same peace come forward i found a safe space between your breath that held me and now i am yours i find you in my secrets and sacred places whispering the truth holy happy new love that increases with our every smile love is a series of private prayers visioning our sweet surrender (all in my wildest dreams love aint the wildest thing our love is higher higher higher than the sun brighter brighter than the sun wider wider than sun our love is brighter) we stay hovering in pleasure between each sigh a sweet surrender his silent smiles lifts the small of my back towards his mouth in one breath I say your name out loud to feel you in my mouth right where u belong we look up towards the rain and say a silent prayer with our hearts i haiku you i haiku you i haiku you i haiku you i i love you i love you i love you i love you i love you i love we become sacred coverings for each other hand in hand with god i found a new way of loving that holds all of my heart in one piece he found a new way of loving that holds all of his heart in one piece holy gratitude the way good keeps increasing just by giving thanks giving thanks is our favorite form of worship alhamdulilah (wider wider than the sun this love it feels much brighter brighter than the sun it takes me higher higher higher than the sun love is the only one you take me higher all in my wildest dreams all in my wildest dreams all in my wildest dreams all in my wildest dreams)

about

it’s been 10 years, but it’s finally here! my 3rd solo project and it’s my mightiest work yet. it’s also my most vulnerable offering and i’m praying you each find some extra joy, hope and comfort. may it be a holy reminder that brings you to see a reflection of yourself.

credits

released September 14, 2023

• executive producer: liza garza
• all songs written and arranged by liza garza
• lead producer: eli lakes
• co producer and cover art: dorian humphrey
• guest producers: noah cort, ashanti jabri
• featured vocalist: sarina leah

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