{"product_id":"still-still-still","title":"Still, Still, Still","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA house of 'I'm okay' and 'no, really' — furnished entirely with something false.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStill, Still, Still\u003c\/strong\u003e is the debut single from \u003cstrong\u003eMother Tongue\u003c\/strong\u003e — a gospel-rooted confession of exhaustion from performing composure, and the surrender that finally lets real rest in. A slow gospel-soul build at 72 BPM carries the whole song: one solitary voice opening the confession, warming gradually toward the moment a full gospel choir arrives to hold what one voice couldn't hold alone. Verse 1 names the specific cost of a life furnished entirely with “I'm okay” and “no, really” — until a quiet inner voice interrupts with the song's central command: be still.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eMusic Track Story\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe pre-chorus reframes prayer itself — not as a search for answers, but as permission to simply ask honestly. Verse 2 turns to inheritance: a grandmother's wordless, hummed healing, “a melody she borrowed from the Lord,” and the admission that the strength she'd always associated with standing tall was really just another performance. The chorus's repeated “still, still, still” works two ways at once — stillness as rest, and “still” as in continuing — the quiet was there the whole time, underneath the performance, waiting: “like water finding level ground… the quiet was the loudest song.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe bridge is the song's full surrender — “I'm laying down my armour, I'm laying down my name, the only thing I'm keeping is the courage to remain” — answered by the full gospel choir arriving at exactly that moment. Permission to stop performing composure and actually rest: the physical relief of a build that earns its own catharsis, and the specific comfort of being joined, right at the moment of surrender, by a whole choir of others. Held rather than alone.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mother Tongue","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53654434414920,"sku":"FARA-STILLSTILLSTILL-MP3","price":0.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0976\/6394\/2984\/files\/fara062-still-still-still-cover_0067a7f5-9f9a-4f7e-b286-84dc78fcc872.png?v=1785992253","url":"https:\/\/spatialx.media\/products\/still-still-still","provider":"SPATIALx Media","version":"1.0","type":"link"}