Rip Gerber releases a beautiful cry across time with" Tell Me Tell Me"

Rip Gerber's new single, "Tell Me Tell Me," is not just a lyric about loss but is a soul-level plea to a father who slipped away before final words could be exchanged. In minutes, Gerber expresses what some of us spend a lifetime striving for. Gerber's susceptibility as a songwriter is his strength, but he doesn't simply describe the scene to you; he takes you into the room. You see the hospital bed, an album of photos, the unspoken exchanges between father and son. And even if his father never hears this song, the rest of us will feel it.

Gerber has staked out a calling with incredibly personal tunes about love, loss, and everything. Penned in the painful aftermath of his father's death at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, "Tell Me Tell Me," is an open wound, an attempt to reach out to someone who's already half a world away on their way to the next life. Gerber narrates the hallucinatory travel to his father's bedside in Clearwater, Florida: empty flights, empty airports, and, among siblings, a flood of memories unlocked by old yearbooks and fading photographs. But it all comes down to one question: What was he feeling in those last moments?

 "Tell Me, Tell Me, what you're feeling inside" seems less like a line of lyrics than a confidential prayer. It lands with weight, all the more so when taken with the somber music video that mirrors the loneliness and yearning of those last hours. And it's not shiny sadness but tangible, messy, deeply human. "Tell Me, Tell Me " prompts us to have difficult conversations while we still can in that Rip Gerber has offered us something universal.

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