"I Saw the Mountains" by Noah Cyrus is a captivating, gradual masterpiece from a songwriter who isn't pursuing fame but instead tapping into something ancient and profoundly genuine.
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Noah Cyrus' latest single “I Saw the Mountains” serves as an otherworldly blessing and a hymn for the quiet, the haunted, and those in search of healing. In the opening verse, she sings, “I saw the mountains, and they saw me,” which transcends mere lyrics; it represents a communion, a subtle rebirth. This line resonates like soft thunder in Noah Cyrus’ new release, which feels more like a ritual than a conventional single.
With “I Saw the Mountains,” the 25-year-old artist from Nashville doesn’t just make a comeback; she elevates, conjures, and transforms. Noah Cyrus, a GRAMMY®-nominated artist whose style crosses genres, ventures into a new dimension of her craft with this song, floating between alt-country roots and atmospheric, cinematic folk. It’s a piece that doesn’t demand to be heard; it simply awaits in a serene space, beneath shadowy branches and the whisper of the wind, to be felt.
There’s a poetic quality to this composition that calls for stillness. It begins not with fanfare, but with reverence. A gentle guitar resonates like footsteps on dew, and her voice – part specter, part lullaby – weaves through the quiet like sunlight piercing through fog.
“The deer and the coyote slept at my feet.”
This represents songwriting as a form of magical invocation. Cyrus invites listeners into a profoundly personal, mythical wilderness, a realm where grief takes on a sacred quality, where memory and nature meld, and where healing flows as a river that moves both through past and future.
I saw the mountains and they saw me
I stood on the ground with the redwood trees
The deer and the coyote slept at my feet
Yes, I saw the mountains and they saw me
Mm-mm, mm-mm
I swam the river and the river swam me
We carried each other back out to the sea
Back to the mother I’ve yearned to see
Yes, I swam the river and the river swam me
The song is enveloped in a delicate soundscape, with ghostly harmonies, echoing drums, and a restrained crescendo that eventually rises like dusk igniting the sky. There’s an easy, unhurried, and sacred flow to its development, a rarity in today’s fast-paced storytelling. Cyrus dares you to pause and to feel.
Oh, when you feel alone in the dark
Yes, I am wherever you are
Circling around the same star
Yes, I am wherever you are
Mm, mm, mm, mm
Noah Cyrus © Jason Renaud
The music video directed by Rudy Grazziani enhances the mystical quality further. Clad in somber black, Cyrus rides a white horse across desolate fields like a spectral figure from an ancient lament. There’s water. Trees. A river that not only carries her but also remembers her. The video doesn’t explain; it resonates.
When she sings, “Circling around the same star / Yes, I am wherever you are,” she transforms from speaking to someone lost or longed for into something that feels omnipresent—a spiritual satellite, an emotional wavelength.
I held onto hope and the hope held me
I gazed into the eyes of eternity
I’ve seen too many things I wish I could forget
But I hold onto hope and the hope holds me
Oh, when you feel alone in the dark
Yes, I am wherever you are
Circling around the same star
Yes, I am wherever you are
There is pain in this track, indeed. But it’s a kind of pain that has matured into a tenderness. This is grief refined into grace, the type of sound that finds you in the stillness of night and quietly lies beside you. It doesn’t inquire about your troubles; it simply remains.
Cyrus stands at a unique intersection of stylistic influences; envision Emmylou Harris traversing a dream set to a Beach House soundtrack. Her sound is rooted in country yet infused with reverb, enveloped in alt-folk mystique. She seems to sing not from a stage but from a forest clearing or the center of a memory.
It’s no surprise that her recent collaboration with Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold on “Don’t Put It All On Me” has garnered critical acclaim. She inhabits the same melancholic sphere, where heartbreak and hope share a pulse.
But with “I Saw the Mountains,” she isn’t merely visiting. She’s constructing a cathedral.
Noah Cyrus © Jason Renaud
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“I Saw the Mountains” by Noah Cyrus is an enchanting and gradually unfolding masterpiece from a songwriter who isn't pursuing fame; instead, she taps into something ancient and profoundly genuine.