Ashes to bubbles

[Ashes to bubbles]

šŸ”„ We observe ashes rising to bubbles. 🫧

Released June 6, 2026

ā¤ļø [Ashes to bubbles] is based on ā¤ļø
Wynn Ray’s short story, ā€œLa Maison du Savon Pur.ā€

You are not your trauma.

You probably already know this.
Still, sometimes, it can feel impossible to focus on anything but those illusory things called ā€œmemories.ā€

Here’s something you might want to try out in such moments:

Tell yourself, ā€œI am free to come back to undesired thoughts and feelings anytime and anywhere I want. However, for now, here, let me consider these other options on the menu of life—these things I actually want to experience.ā€

Interestingly, giving myself conscious permission to come back to undesired shit later tends to give me the freedom to select what I want. I guess it’s similar to how it’s easier to say ā€œI’ll eat that junk food laterā€ instead of ā€œI’ll never ever again eat junk food and only survive on lettuce and spinach for the rest of my life.ā€ After a while, it becomes easier to choose lettuce and spinach over and over again. The junk food doesn’t feel interesting enough to dwell on. (I’m serious. I love lettuce, spinach, Brussel sprouts, carrots…)

Anyway, that’s what this EP is about: you are not your trauma. Ghosts rise from the ashes and things pop like bubbles, but all is iridescent and beautiful.

Cheers,
Echo

šŸ”„ [Whose hands] lyrics 🫧

Purple to pink along the shelf
I built this order all myself
Same hands moving, same fixed weight
Same time every day, same way

Whose hands are these
Carrying you down
I swore I left you
I swore I left you
Whose hands are these

I count the colors, close the door
I make it better than before
I press the seams and hold the line
I call your method mine

Whose hands are these
Carrying you down
I swore I left you
I swore I left you
Whose hands are these

Still yours
Every careful thing
Still yours
Still yours

Something of you lingers
I can’t cut the thread
Something of you carried
Something of you fed

Something of you lingers
I can't cut the thread
Something of you carried
Something of you fed

Purple to pink along the shelf
Still ordered, somehow, still myself
Same hands moving, softer now
I kept the habit, kept the vow

Still yours
Every careful thing
Still yours
Still mine
šŸ”„ [Just making space] lyrics 🫧

You had a fire in the winter room
Said you were only making space
I watched the walls close in on you
And learned to call it grace

What do you do when it all burns down
Do you grieve it or let it go
I’ve been standing in your smoke so long
It’s all I know
It’s all I know

The towers grew, you couldn’t see
You kept on building room to room
I stayed so small, so out of the way
Trying to give the fire room

What do you do when it all burns down
Do you grieve it or let it go
I’ve been standing in your smoke so long
It’s all I know
It’s all I know

Let it burn
Let it burn down
Let it go
Let it go

You loved the weight of things
The heft of them, the stack
I learned to love the empty
I learned to not go back

What do you do when it all burns down
Do you grieve it or let it go
I’ve been standing in your smoke so long
It’s all I know
It’s all I know

And the smoke does clear
It always clears
What’s left is light
What’s left is here

Let it go
Let it go
Let it go
šŸ”„ [Into the air] lyrics 🫧

I’m losing the edges
The light’s coming through
Gray at the center
Nothing feels true

So light I could scatter
So close to gone
So light I could scatter

I’m coming apart at the seam
I’m com-coming apart at the bone
The floor still beneath me
I’m still not alone
I’m still not alone

The weight keeps on lifting
The gray spreads wide
I reach for the edges
I reach for inside

So light I could scatter
So close to gone
So light I could scatter

I’m com-coming apart at the seam
I’m com-coming apart at the bone
The floor still beneath me
I’m still not alone
I’m still not alone

The gray keeps on settling
The weight doesn’t come
I thought I’d be nothing
I’m lighter than numb

And maybe to scatter
Is not to be lost
Maybe to lighten
Is worth every cost

Gone into air
Gone into light
Gone into something
Gone into right
šŸ”„ [Iridescent] lyrics 🫧

Every bubble finds its end
Round and bright and briefly here
I watched them rise above the drain
I watched them disappear
 
Hold it lightly
Hold it lightly
Everything that’s clean
Bursts open
Hold it lightly
 
Purple, ivory, gone
I kept myself so solid
But everything that fully forms
Is already foaming
 
Hold it lightly
Hold it lightly
Everything that’s clean
Bursts open
Hold it lightly
 
I used to want the lasting kind
The permanent, the sealed
Turns out the brief ones catch the light
Turns out that’s how you feel
 
Rise and break
Rise and break
That’s the whole of it
Rise and break
 
Something in the water
Something in the air
You can’t hold the shape of something
Built from foam and prayer
What you spent years forming
Was always going to foam
Round and bright and iridescent
Briefly yours to own
 
Hold it lightly
Hold it lightly
Hold it lightly
Rise and break

Hold it lightly
Hold it lightly
Hold it lightly
Rise and break

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