The Loon & The Flying Fish

by Ari Neufeld & Dom Fricot

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This story was presented by Dominque Fricot in metaphor to a relationship issue he was struggling with: the ability to meet the one he was trying to love on the same level. The metaphor deepened when we started to discuss expectation challenges. One's perspective feels like a deep ocean sometimes, when the other's seems like a shallow puddle. The metaphor was really born when I declared in the middle of it: "It's like you're a loon and she's a flying fish, and the two of you are only capable of fully identifying with the other for a breath!"

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I was born
Swimming free
But I have these crazy wings
Lord, I have these crazy wings

I will never know
How to fly
But I'll learn to glide
Lord, I'll learn to glide

We're charging at the surface
Both still a little nervous:
I wanna be where you are
And where I wanna go
So sad that I can't show you
You're as distant as the stars
I wanna be where you are

I was born
In the reeds
Given to fly above the trees
I remember when
You pulled me in
How you glided in the wind
I couldn't breathe underneath
But this song
Poured out of me

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released November 11, 2019
Ari Neufeld and Dom Fricot, featuring Jennie Bice, Jimmy Balfour and Jonathan Anderson

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Ari Neufeld Penticton, British Columbia

Ari Neufeld is a creative.
If it can be made with the human body, he’s probably figuring out how to make it. Music. Art. Rhythm. Melody. Rhyme. Visual innovation and diversity. Neufeld plays regularly with Canada's fiddler phenom Jennie Bice, and bides most of his year traveling and being creative. He has played over 300 weddings and over 650 shows in Vancouver BC alone! LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE! ... more

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