Premiere: The Sea The Sea stitch a starry blanket with new lyric video, ‘A Thousand Years’

There are few things as invigorating as the stillness found in nature. The smooth ripple of crisp oak, poplar, and ash leaves brushed in the breeze, as their long, gnarly arms hang thick and low over the river’s edge. The water, too, rings with a particular gentle dazzle; a frog hops into the shallow end, and a school of fish dart to and fro beneath the glass-top surface. So, a song like The Sea The Sea‘s “A Thousand Years” appears out of the darkness that surrounds most of us these days and links up as a serene companion piece to Mother Nature herself.

“We’ve been here, been out there / Paying every due and every fine,” the folk duo ⏤ of Mira and Chuck Costa ⏤ lament the modern age and a working musician’s life, tired and worn. They hide themselves away in the song’s innate ambiance, a crystal encasement in which they can recharge, reconnect, and reemerge more self-possessed. “We find ourselves out where it’s still… …been this quiet every night / For a thousand years,” they sing. In immersing themselves in natural beauty, they learn what it means to be free and alive, inviting the listener to engage with the surroundings as well.

The lyric video is appropriately magical, a starry blanket as if the viewer is lying on their back and consuming the cosmos in one full gulp. “We are listening / And we’ve been / wondering / Tying all our keys to a kite / And we’ve been laughing / Walking with our flickering flashlights,” they continue to let heavenly images filter through their very souls. What is born is renewed understanding of their purpose: to move people and provoke an equal depth of wisdom.

The song stemmed from “a ‘cut out’ exercise we use sometimes to generate ideas,” Mira told Glide Magazine. “We cut out random words from old paperbacks and re-shape them into original lines. It’s something we learned at a songwriting retreat called Crooked Crow, way out in west Texas in the middle of the desert right on the border of Mexico. The song has become a reminder. When I get swallowed up in the din of it all ⏤ the minutiae, the paperwork, the noise ⏤ it’s a reminder to stop, take a second, be still, and enjoy the world’s beauty.”

“A Thousand Years” samples the duo’s new album, Stumbling Home, out August 28 on AntiFragile Music.

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