Kacey Musgraves Goes on Trip Through Circle of Life in ‘Cardinal’ Music Video

Kacey Musgraves is soaring to new heights (literally!) in the new, psychedelic-inspired music video for her song “Cardinal.”

Musgraves, 35, has said that the song, the lead track off her most recent album Deeper Well, is inspired by the loss of her friend and mentor John Prine. And in a new music video released Monday, July 15, the star takes an “abstract and kaleidoscopic trip through birth, rebirth, nature, memory, dream, and the fragmented pieces of ourselves that eventually transform into different energy when we leave this world behind,” according to a press release.

In the video, which was directed by Scott Cudmore, Musgraves is seen gazing serenely out windows from various rooms in a house, until eventually she takes on a new, all-black look as the aesthetic changes from country chic to trippy kaleidoscopes that echo the song’s ‘70s-inspired sound.

Eventually Musgraves levitates off the ground, as footage of blooming flowers, rotting apples …