Hi friend,
How are you doing these days?
This week’s song is about my concern for us and the Earth with the decisions being made right now. Honestly, I’m scared of AI datacenters, the rise of the far right, and how our environment will handle the crazy decisions being made right now. I’m deeply heartbroken by the wars and genocide going on as well as the rise in economic inequality.
I used to be into astrology and I am finding myself turning to astrologers for any hope of change. Serious change.
I also used to be a historian and a political scientist and I follow several, but that’s less poetic to write songs about… yes, I have both a very spiritual and a very rational side.
I am a very optimistic person and I believe in the goodness of humanity…. with the blue tsunami in the States and some other interesting election results as of late, I feel that we have a chance. Human beings aren’t stupid, we need solutions that we can back.
But we also do need to remember that “our decisions last forever,” as I write in the song… in other words, they have consequences for future generations.
I’m feeling the burn here in my seventh week of writing a song a week.
The first chord progression I have made was just too jolly and half way through the song I just couldn’t continue.
I do have a rule that I finish songs, but I break this rule quite often, especially when my entire body is screaming not to write that song.
Also, the weather here in Denmark (nearing winter weather) is really getting to me and I am more fatigued than usual.
While I was 99% bedbound it didn’t bother me much because I was lying in a heated bed with the curtains closed. But now that I can have the curtains open and am out of bed a bit more I am feeling the cold and the darkness.
My voice has been tired this week too, you might be able to hear it in the song. I had to transpose the song down a whole note because of vocal fatigue.
Also, I wanted to let you know that I will be turning on paid subscriptions as a way for you to support me and my work. Everything will stay free, but paid subscribers will get an additional weekly ‘Tiny Thought’ voice note from me about what I’ve been thinking or about my creative practice during the week, or whatever I want to share with you.
Look out for an email about that soon.
Here are the lyrics:
I hunt for stars at night
What will they tell us about our lives?
Damp with dreams I wake up to the moonlight
What if the stars are gone tomorrow will there be strife?
Who will guide us
Who will lead?
Oooh where will they take us?
Where will we be?
What do we do with the soil where nothing grows?
Close our eyes
And hope it’s gone
Tomorrow
I hunt for stars at night
Do they have answers or is it all a lie?
Do we join the clouds or become pure light?
Our decisions last forever, just ask the sky
Who will guide us
Who will lead?
Oooh where will they take us?
Where will we be?
What do we do with the soil where nothing grows?
Close our eyes
And hope it’s gone
Tomorrow
I can’t wait to find out what next week’s song will be about, it’s always exciting.
Tell me…
Are you worried about the state of the world?
Do you believe in astrology?
Are you an optimist or a pessimist, or something in between?
I’d love to know in the comments!
