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As someone writing love songs myself, I know the terrain. The hesitations, the late-night questions, the quiet hope that someone will understand what you’re really trying to say. So when I came upon Lipford’s Miracle, it feels like discovery, or more like recognition.
The song opens up slowly, like a conversation you’ve been avoiding. There’s a calm weight to it. It settles in, just staying present while you listen.
Lipford, the Italian-American artist who spent 17 years behind the guitar in alt-rock band MANTRAM, stepped into solo territory in 2019. Since then, he’s been writing with a different kind of urgency – more exposed, more human. Lipford is the surname of a name we’ll maybe never find out. But miracles keep showing up, and somehow, that tells us more than enough. Miracle is the sound of someone who’s been through the noise and found something quieter, but heavier, on the other side.
Miracle begins without ceremony. A guitar chord and the man’s voice, like someone working up the courage to say something they’ve rehearsed in their head a hundred times. There’s a quiet intimacy in that first line. Just a man asking, in his own way, to be seen. Wait, I’m here… watching you / Feeling a fool. Can… can you see / in my eyes, / what I fear?
It’s not about performance. It’s a moment that feels borrowed from a real-life pause. When words come slow and the voice betrays the weight behind them. Lipford’s not narrating a heartbreak from a distance. He’s still in it, still unsure whether the person on the other end is even looking.
That’s the brilliance here – Lipford lets the hesitation do the talking. I can tell you this is the hardest kind of writing: the kind that doesn’t force itself. The kind that lets silence breathe between lines. The kind that starts with a whisper and still manages to hold your full attention.
Well, I don’t know about you, but I’ve been there. Not literally begging the sky, but damn close. The miracle here? It’s not winning the lottery or sprouting angel wings. It’s just getting to the other side of yourself. Maybe that means healing, or maybe just surviving the next Tuesday.
And then comes the punch: “Share your pain / with me or the wind.” The kind of line that feels like someone else reached into your own head and found the thing you weren’t ready to say.
Musically, there’s a simplicity to Miracle that makes the message heavier, not lighter. Produced by Lipford himself and recorded at Jungle Music Factory in Tivoli with Francesco Grammatico, the track avoids the polished-to-death sound of modern pop. Instead, it breathes.
Think Ed Sheeran if he had more ghosts in the attic. Or James Morrison after a sleepless week. Lipford’s voice carries the same smoky ache, but with edges sharpened by years in rock. You hear bits of Buckley, hints of Cornell, maybe even a whisper of Tears For Fears if you’re paying attention – but what you hear most is honesty.
I’ll be real: songs like Lipford’s Miracle are written because someone had to bleed a little. Not to be viral. And in this case, the blood writes well.
We’ve had singles like Miracle and All Night Long this year alone – two sides of the same restless coin. Last year gave us Sunday Morning, the kind of track that slips in while the coffee’s still bitter. In 2023, it was The Party Is Over – no confetti, just ashtrays and hindsight.
Go back further and you’ll find Back To You in 2022, and a quiet flood of songs in 2021 and 2020 – five each, if you’re counting. Every release feels like another step up a stairwell that leads somewhere harder to define. Not higher, just deeper. Different angles, same man, writing his way through them all.
Lipford’s Miracle is for those days when you need a reminder that the wall in front of you might not fall, but there’s always a way through. Even if it’s not graceful, even if you drag your heart behind you.
As Lipford himself puts it: “Now I want more / ’cuz you know who I am.” He’s not asking for sympathy. He’s demanding to be seen. And that? That’s brave.
If this one hit you where it needed to, there’s more where it came from. Find Lipford on Facebook, Instagram, Spotify, YouTube, and his official website lipfordmusic.com. Stay tuned. The story’s still being written.
Written by: Flav
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