Curious and Free

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When I went into the studio to record this song, I thought it was going to be just acoustic guitar and vocal, so that’s what we tracked. After listening back to it, I kept hearing a string melody in my head, so then we layered strings on it. Upon further listening, I said, “well now it needs percussion”, and it bloomed into this dark, lush thing I never expected, somehow capturing the bittersweet feeling of young freedom better than I hoped it would.

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I was seventeen
Curious and free
Dancing alone to the radio

Were those simpler times
Leave landlock behind
Set out wandering for the coast

Wash the dust off in the sea
Climb the tallest tree
With no one and nothing to fear

Don’t have to know just where we’re going
As long as the tide keeps pulling in
Highway through the hills to the horizon
I wanna feel that free again

The harder that I try
The faster time slips by
And I can’t seem to steady my hands

For the task that lies ahead
Fighting gravity again
I keep stumbling on the line

Bathe in the moonlight
North Star above
Reaching to find some solid ground

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from It All Goes Up, released August 4, 2023

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