Carli Harris & Dormee blend free worship-style with electronic into music that resonates with the soul while also taking you on an auditory journey that is personal, unique, exciting, and driven.
The story behind, "After All," by Carli Harris:
I sat there looking into my eyes in the mirror while depression came to sing its song, but Jesus started to remind me who I really was. When suicide came in with its harmony, singing, "Your death will set you free," Jesus reminded me only His death can set me free. When self hatred was yelling, "There's nothing left of you," Jesus showed me true beauty I never saw before in myself. What Jesus spoke to me in poem, I wanted to create into lyrics, because I knew so many could relate.
Let Life sing His song over you.
Because after all, you are beautiful after all.
Notes about the music of, "After All," by Dormee:
When Carli first approached me with her poem, I knew the words that I read were special and inspired. Although she was a little hesitant on turning her poem into lyrics and a song, I played around with some musical ideas and shared them with her. When she heard what I had done with her poem, turning it into song (initially, with me just narrating the poem over the score), she was so excited to work further on expanding this project and I composed a melody for her lyrics and we worked out the chorus line together and Carli expanded her poem into a second verse that is just phenomenal.
As for the music, it begins with a simple piano line and becomes more complex with added synthesizers all crescendoing into the chorus and then it happens all over again with the second verse and chorus, but the conclusion, I think, is something exceptionally special and in which Carli came up with of her own accord. The ending returns with that simple piano line and fades aways into nothing as she sings the words, "You are beautiful, after all," so it's as if you continue hearing those words even after the song has ended and I think those are the words God wants us to hear and understand for all of time and beyond.
lyrics
After all you have seen, your eyes still hold beauty
After all you've endured, your heart is still beating
After all who have taken from you, your hands are still giving
After all who have tried to silence you, still you sing
After all, you are beautiful after all
You keep on pressing forward
After all, you are beautiful after all
You keep on singing
After all you have heard, your ears hear My voice
After all they have said, your mouth still speaks life
After all the places you ended up, your feet keep on moving
After all the broken promises, still you dream
After all, you are beautiful after all
You keep on pressing forward
After all, you are beautiful after all
You keep on singing
After all your pain
It won't be in vain
After all this time
You know you'll be alright
And you know
You are beautiful after all
credits
released February 9, 2018
Jonny Reese (Dormee) - Producer & Songwriter
Carli Harris - Singer & Songwriter
I started playing the piano out of obsession, the violin out of curiosity, and now I compose electronic music out of obsessive passion and creative curiosity.
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