STARING AT THE SKY
Staring At The Sky is a song that I feel like I always wanted to make about my deep rooted connection to nature. When I was growing up, I felt like there was nothing that held a more mysterious and alluring wander than wild lands and wildlife. I was constantly fascinated by the wilderness, and the animals that called it home. I spent so much time in nature, and still do now because I feel like it is completely stitched into my being. I am a wildlife nerd to the fullest and spend a lot of my free time taking photographs of animals and landscapes. I have planned many trips around bears, snakes, birds, wolves, and so on. That love makes its way into many of my songs and is why they are nature themed in many ways. But Staring At The Sky is just a little different. This song completely opens that part of me and I feel like its begging for adventure, to taste the wild and gain an understanding perspective that could not otherwise be found. The lyric video was filmed in a place called Buzzard's roost where I live. That place feels holy to me, like stepping into another realm. There is a magic there that belongs to those hills, and it is the exact place that inspired the song's existence. My hope is that it captures that feeling of wanderlust that is in all of us. Or maybe instead of capturing it, it inspires it and makes you want to go discover and experience these incredible wild places on your own. This song was made for the adventure.
LYRICS
Feel the open road
No better time then now to go
Following the stars
And amber lights from lonely cars
Staring at the sky
Lock my heart inside the night
I see it from afar
Secrets hidden where you are
The trail that I walk so long
Covers my feet in dust
No part of my soul that it won’t touch
Tall quiet trees so lush
Held in the mountain’s arms
The forest sings to me
A wild and open vacancy
A story we can read
The page is calling out to me
A summit I can’t see
Find it on mountain peak
The trail that I walk so long
Covers my feet in dust
No part of my soul that it won’t touch
Tall quiet trees so lush
Held in the mountain’s arms
I don’t know why
I feel like I’m in heaven
Swallow the sky
Hold back the tides
Forever
I don’t why I feel like I’m in heaven