J.M. Clifford is targeted on the present — and all of the thoughts it delivers with it — in his new song “The Reservoir.” The calming, peaceful keep track of is premiering exclusively via The Boot push perform beneath to listen.

Over a straightforward acoustic guitar and finger-picked strings, bare-bones percussion and a gradually increasing fiddle line, Clifford sets a peaceful nighttime scene: “The moon is a beacon in the sky / Past the pines and via the sycamores / We can see for miles and miles …,” he sings in the very first verse.

“Great h2o on my pores and skin / You and I go swimming with the stars,” Clifford adds in the 2nd verse. “It seems to effortless to start / Appropriate below where by we are.”

The inspiration for “The Reservoir,” Clifford points out, life in something his mother explained to him just after her Phase IV breast cancer analysis. “I keep in mind we have been chatting 1 night,” the artist recalls, “and she informed me about how she experienced ‘invited cancer to tea.'”

“I realized she was talking metaphorically, but at the time, I considered it was still the strangest damn point I’d at any time heard her say,” continues Clifford, introducing that it was only significantly later on that he begun to fully comprehend what she meant: “There is a way to sit with the complete spectrum of emotions — pleasure, suffering, grief, speculate — and invite all of that things in without