“Spiritus” by Lisa Mitchell

"Spiritus" was the first single from Lisa Mitchell's EP of the same name, her third, released on 27 March 2012, and it later found a home on her second album, Bless This Mess. The Australian singer-songwriter wrote it herself, and she explained the title on Triple J the day it was released: it's Latin for breath, and she had been deep into yoga, where breathing is the thing you focus on.

That was only part of it. She framed the song as a note to her younger self, the advice she wished she'd had a couple of years earlier: keep some perspective, because there's a huge sun out there and all is well. It came out on Warner Music Australia and reached number 91 on the ARIA chart.

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