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'Walk The Streets On Sunrise' is releasing today (March 18th, in Australia) and has already been placed in Spotify's New Music Friday AU/NZ.
The song was written at the beginning of last winter. With long busy days working, I began running before dawn and would often run down empty streets resemblant of airport runways, to be greeted with the stillest, most wonderful sunrises. With no one around, and no sound. Peace and quiet, in the city? The impact it had on my day, as it became busier, was profound. That stillness never left, and inspired me hugely throughout the day, and how I interacted with everyone around me.
The song is written from an imagined perspective of an older male, with limited days left on this extraordinary planet we are blessed to call home. In imagining how I'd feel in this person's situation, I feel the urgency and inspiration to make the most of every morning, every day I wake up breathing. I hope you enjoy the song, and keep finding moments to be grateful for each day. Let the peace fill your life.
It is the second single off an upcoming second studio album titled 'Impermanence', due to be released June 2022.
Lyrics:
Am I alone? Or are we living life in fast forward?
Scrambling from dusk till dawn,
For food to eat, for a place to call our home.
Well he said, I’ve been working all this time,
To find I never lived, right before I die.
And that’s why I walk the streets on sunrise.
And let the peace fill your life.
It’s so damn nice.
Peace and quiet.
Watch the birds take flight.
When you walk the streets on sunrise.
To be awake while the city sleeps is to witness an Earth at ease.
The cool morning stars they fade.
The roads are empty like runways.
Machines rise, the birds they hide.
But it’s okay for you have the silence inside.
And that’s why I walk the streets on sunrise.
And let it inspire my life.
It’s so damn nice.
Peace and quiet.
Watch the birds take flight.
When you walk the streets on sunrise.
