A song to feed and encourage our hearts in the midst of heartbreak, personal and collective.  To call us into ever more more. 

The first part of this song are from Kai Cheng Thom's direct words (I actually now realize she wrote "bring me ever closer", oops!).  She's a Chinese-Canadian trans author, performance poet, cultural worker, community healer, and teacher on the practice of revolutionary love. Here's her website - https://kaichengthom.com/

This song can be sung with the parts consecutively, different folks singing separate parts, and it can also be sung in a round

Lyrics:

Part 1 -

The heart breaks so it can grow 
The heart breaks so it can open
May my heart break lead me ever closer 
To the being I long to be 
A being whose love feels like freedom
A being whose love feels like freedom

Part 2 -

Let it go, let it grow, let it go, let it grow Let it open
Let it go, let it grow, let it go, let it grow Let it open
May my heart break
Lead me closer
To being love and freedom 
To being love, to being love 
To being love and freedom

The Heart Breaks So It Can Grow (after Kai Cheng Thom)

A little spot for some songs that come through me, in hopes that they feed hearts and souls, support connection and remembering, and add to the movement toward liberation and vitality - personal and collective.  

These are songs designed to be sung in community as well.  Hopefully easy-ish to teach and be sung in groups.  Please feel free to bring them into groups so that they can go forth and live in the world!  And if you ever sing them with a group and want to send me a recording, I would love that.

Jesse Case

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