Dawn DeSimone

I am rising

I am rising

From the ground up

I am rising

Through the silence

Through the static

Through the everything

I am rising

Chorus:

Empress

Empress

Feel the pulse beneath the earth

Empress

Empress

Know your power know your worth

Empress

Empress

You were here before the storm

Empress

Empress

You are always being born

Verse 2:

I am ancient

I am ancient

Older than the names they gave me

I am ancient

I remember

Every season every lifetime

I remember

The clock dissolved at half past three

The mirror showed a stranger to me

I followed her down a hallway of glass

Where nothing is future and nothing is past

Chorus:

Are you real or are you the dream

Nothing is ever quite what it seems

I left my name at the edge of the tide

And walked through the door to the other side

Verse 2:

The flowers grew backwards into the ground

The city was humming a colorless sound

I met a woman who looked like my youth

She handed me something and called it the truth

In the ASMR world they call me Jem. I never watched the show — but when I finally did I understood why. A singer with a secret identity, her own label, and a double life. Sound familiar? 💫

I wear a pink star earring. She has one magical one.