(Someday I'd Like to Write) A Song Free of Trouble

from A Song Free of Trouble / Au Fin du Monde (Double A-Side) by The New Birds of America

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A lullaby and a meditation on the value of using troubles as the basis of songs. The arrangement while lofi shows its roots in affection for records such as Gordon Lightfoot's "If You Could Read My Mind", Elvis' take on "Always on My Mind" and Anne Murray's take on "Danny's Song", and many similar tracks of the early 70s which likely formed my sensibilities before I realized I had any sensibilities to form.

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Someday I’d like to write
A song free of trouble
A song that you can go to sleep by at night
Night after night
In a world free of trouble

But it’s a troubled world of which we are a part
Where we find our treasure, where we find our heart
And a troubled song may simply mean
The pains of our beloved haven’t gone unseen

Someday I’d like to write
A song free of trouble
A song that you can go to sleep by at night
Night after night
In a world free of trouble

I sometimes worry
We’re relentlessly stockpiling
A monotony of songs
Crafted from and worthlessly preserving
All the world’s wrongs

But I don’t think we’re meant to let go of all the beauty
We put in our songs of protest and misery
We can wish the present forms of this world to fade away
But still remember the loves we loved in our troubled days

Someday I will write
A song free of trouble
A song that you’ll go to sleep by at night
Night after night
In a world free of trouble

And in those days to come
When we sing one of our trouble songs
A song from when we were first in love
It’ll be strange and sweet
Like a song learned in a dream

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from A Song Free of Trouble / Au Fin du Monde (Double A-Side), released June 15, 2022

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The New Birds of America is Blaise Moritz and sometimes others.

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