The North Wind is blowing and it transports us from grief to gratitude, from a long desired fantasy to harsh reality and back again. As if frozen in time the beauty of the memories are the emotions that shall remain. Featuring Fabienne Roethlisberger on vocals and Andreas Svarc on the piano, “North Wind” is the the companion piece to the previously released Static Dark song “Once” and brings peaceful closure to the painful issue of separation because after all, there still was a beauty in all of this...
lyrics
North Wind
Not such a long time ago....when the sky was grey
found myself waiting...endless debating
longing for absolution...each and every day
as if the world has stopped turning, the seasons withered away
How much time is left...when the sun starts sinking
tired of hating....and contemplating
I was chasing...lights ’n’ dreams and the horizon
and the world kept turning, a pale moon is watching me rising
When the day is long...and the night is never ending
I know that I was wrong...and sometimes condescending
When the North Wind blows...and my heart is freezing
I will keep my light shining in darkness for you if you want to see
If there’s a beauty in all of this
why not sit down, take it in and maybe stop falling?
There is so much...you’re gonna miss
’til the end of the world I keep asking myself if you remember this?
And if I was content, I’d never write these words
Another weak attempt to tell myself where it hurts
And all the while...with someone by my side
I’d see the world anew and take it all in stride
It didn’t last too long, it’s a confession not a song
I was in love with a light, with a dream, with a fear
But even if it’s all gone, I know life goes on
Still in love with a vision and you’re nowhere near
Not such a long time ago....I began to see
the wind keeps on returning...stinging and burning
like a rock in the surf, I remain to face it
I might shed a tear when it’s finally my turn now to embrace it
When the day is long...and the night is never ending
I know that I was wrong...and sometimes condescending
When the North Wind blows...and my heart is freezing
I will keep my light shining in darkness for you if you want to see
...need it be?
If there’s a beauty in all of this
Why not sit down, take it in and maybe stop falling?
There is so much...you’re gonna miss
’til the end of the world I keep asking myself if you remember this?
If there's beauty in all of this
Why not sit down, take it in and maybe stop falling?
I’m not sure anymore what I should need to know
I wish it wasn’t that hard to let the memories go
wish it wasn’t that easy - to end up addicted
If I only could erase all the pain I’ve inflicted
Made a wish upon a star as we have traveled so far
But now I don’t even want to know where you are
The other side of the world, things are better, maybe
I left a track in the soil there for no one but me
If there’s a beauty in all of this
Why not let go, cut it out and get up now from crawling?
There is so much...you’ll never miss!
Awake and not dreamin’ of things to believe in, everlasting bliss
And the moon keeps rising... over the horizon...
and I can’t remember...all of it
But I won’t keep waiting
The world didn’t stop turning
And I let it all go...at least parts of it
credits
released December 7, 2018
Music and lyrics by Static Dark
Vocals by Fabienne Roethlisberger & Static Dark
Piano by Andreas Svarc
Cover Photography: Daniel Lippert
Produced by Nick Button & Daniel Lippert
Mastered by Daniel Lippert at KDA Studios, Bern
Label: asme music
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