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                To me, there is something special—spiritual—in experiencing the sun rise and set; something magical in the way, for a moment, the sky is changed and the hidden colors of the sky’s depths show through, and you hold witness before sky changes and sky’s filtered soul is masked again in daytime blue or night.  When the sun sets, and I’m in the fields, is one of my favorite times to think and begin writing ideas in my mind.  In those moments, I feel a sense of connectedness even in the solitude, all from the light and fire coloring the sky.

                I wrote this song imagining the chorus as a poem described as “simple words” spoken to in verses.  I imagined the story written in a moment when sky and singer are both allowing their full colors and expressions to show and tried to communicate a hint of the magic, romance, and connected solitude that I often feel when alone watching daylight die and sky’s revelation of filtered colors disappear.

                Maybe it’s overly poetic, but so are the skies that were the inspiration. 

                 My friend, Matt Smith took this idea and gave it life through his own sound and added emotion.  His time on melodies, flows, and instrumentals far outweigh my tinkering with a pen, and if you feel something in what we made, Matt’s gifts are what you feel.  Thank you Matt for helping me “speak into the world a prayer just maybe you’ll hear”—a song—that began as little more than idea and mood from staring on a fire sky and wanting to write something from its light.          

                We hope you enjoy it and, if you do, feel free to share!

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