[Cover photo credit to Talitha-Lahm]

Singer/songwriter Ian Fisher has released new single “Independence Day.” It’s a song that explores “The dichotomy of mourning the death of a loved one from a lingering illness.”

Fisher explains:

Knowing your mom is gone, but more free than she’d been in years… No more broken body to wear her down… Unfettered and free for her to travel to anywhere she wants to be… Anywhere I want her to be… Death as liberation… The freedom to be no one anymore and in being nothing to be everything, feeling a hand on your shoulder when writing a song in front of a dark window looking out on the fields of the farm where your family was raised and seeing nothing but your reflection.

He continues:

In the immediate aftermath of my mom’s death, I remember feeling like a planet had been removed from the solar system. Everything looked the same, but gravity was different. The orbital pull of things had been altered.

Death is something that we conveniently shove to the side and don’t address very often. It can be unhealthy because it creates a situation where we think we’ll live forever. But everyone we know and have around us is going to die eventually. It’s a miracle that we even have this moment right now.

TOUR DATES:

Oct 14	Pete’s Candy Store	New York, NY
Oct 29	Hotel Café	Los Angeles, CA
Oct 30	Wine & Songs	South Pasadena, CA