It's Alright
by Dellwood
About this track
Video: https://youtu.be/MeWthM0aqig Stream 'It's Alright' → https://song.link/us/i/1865547637 Press Release: With It’s Alright, Dellwood offers his most compassionate and grounding release to date — a song written not as reassurance from a distance, but as presence inside the weight of real life. The song emerged unintentionally while Chris Bartels was walking alongside a close friend enduring a prolonged season of loss: broken relationships, family fractures, and the creeping temptation to give up on music entirely. Drawing subtle inspiration from themes in his friend’s own songwriting, It’s Alright became a quiet act of solidarity — not saying “everything will be fine,” but offering something more honest: you’re allowed to breathe again, even here. Built around intimate Rhodes and Pianet T layers, warm rubber-bridge acoustic fingerpicking, and hushed, breath-forward vocals, the track unfolds slowly and deliberately. There’s no rush to resolution. Instead, the song sits with heartbreak, anxiety, and emotional exhaustion — acknowledging the mess without trying to soften it. Lyrically, the song moves between elemental imagery and human fragility — rain, waves, sand, dirt — tracing a shared arc of breaking down and slowly mending. The repeated refrain “It’s alright” is not a dismissal of pain, but a grounding statement: a reminder that hope can exist alongside grief, not after it. “This song wasn’t written to fix anything,” says Bartels. “It was written to sit with someone in the hardest stretch of their life — to say, this is brutal, and you’re not wrong for feeling it. But you’re still here. You still matter. There’s still something ahead of you.” It’s Alright continues Dellwood’s evolving cinematic-folk language — restrained, emotionally present, and deeply human — favoring honesty over polish and closeness over scale. It’s a song about staying, breathing, and holding space when easy answers aren’t available. For fans of Sufjan Stevens, Bon Iver, Hazlett, Novo Amor, RY X, Phoebe Bridgers. /// Press Highlights for Dellwood (Year One): • “Soul-stirring indie-folk… raw and intimate strums wonderfully juxtaposed with cinematically produced vocal layering.” – Up To Hear Music • “Delicate harmonies radiate raw emotion and soul… a hauntingly personal atmosphere.” – Caesar Live N Loud • “Explores the weight of family through a haunting narrative… lyrics ache with unspoken words.” – Purple Melon • “An intimate slice of folk… emotional power and sincerity reminiscent of early Bon Iver.” – We All Want Someone To Shout For • “A warm, atmospheric soundscape… tackling life’s challenges and finding solace in shared vulnerability.” – Purple Melon /// LYRICS In the rain, the body break When you need to run away At least promise me You may see the final frame Let the healer take away At least try to breathe From the sea and the sand To the dirt we all land It’s alright, it’s alright In the waves, you can mend Before the mysteries end It’s alright, it’s alright, it’s alright In the thick it left you low With a vow the rhythm stole In the everwoods Laughing is the medicine But you’re free to breathe again In the fur-brewed clay From the sea and the sand To the dirt we all land It’s alright, it’s alright In the waves, you can mend Before the mysteries end It’s alright, it’s alright, it’s alright You’re alright You’re alright