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Summerland

from Summerland (EP) by Daniel John

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It began as a traditional finger-style acoustic guitar song. I kicked it around for a few months and wasn’t getting anywhere. I relied on my “oblique strategies” deck of cards and got rid of the most important elements. I rebuilt it into something I could not have imagined otherwise. The song deals with believing in less as I’ve gotten older. There seems to only be more disappointments over time. It’s about finding peace with it.

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You speak to me
In a language of flowers
All laid to rearrange
Every passed hour

The stars all hang above
They make me feel blue
For the unlikely chance at all
Of knowing you
It's the only truth

Not forever
Only just now
The future's open
If only were wide

Am I the only one who's getting old
Whose blonde still grows of summer
While the rest of me dulls
It's getting old

That's just the night talking to you
Your boyhood's with the ones you knew
And you can't have it now

Am I sleep of seeds
Or asleep for ages
A fall from all of Eden's graces
Where only weeds are grown

Cut the stems
I've found myself past the start again

It's lust dying
And if my heaven is a sin then I'm leaning into it

My heart beats
My head doesn't blink

There never really was much to believe

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from Summerland (EP), track released July 13, 2021

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Daniel John Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania

Daniel John is from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He makes music and stuff.

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