written on my notes in iPhone after a hair-raising early morning drive west to the airport as the sun was coming up and I was racing against time!
lyrics
I Drove Into The Sun
I drove into the sun with flashes dark to bright, as the trees blocked the light the road was treacherous at times as it wound and climbed up and over the hills sometimes completely disappearing from my vision in the intense sunlight, but I was loving so this lonely road all mine at 7 AM when the chateau with its spires came in the distance, sunflowers and the late summer fields, singing to the morning of unbroken blue sky, I’m leaving, I’m leaving, I wonder why, my
Generation will as those before me march like disappearing phantoms on then slip behind like we were never here, I turn my mind to what’s ahead as if an old machine starts up the big and rusty wheel again, it never used to be like this, oh life was coming in with sparks from every side and we were always trying to get somewhere, not seeing our selves exactly where we stood in the late summer fields, singing to the morning of unbroken blue sky, I’m feeling, I’m feeling this is a goodbye.
When you drive into the sun you risk the chance of what might come, the past it drops like stitches from a needle and can’t be redone, you may forget the future, the immediate beats upon the drum, you’ll never have this time again this very moment is the reason you stop the thoughts, stop the car get out and stand just where you are, you’ll miss the flight but what does it matter? Embracing all in front of you are the late summer fields, and singing to the morning of unbroken blue sky, I’m not leaving, not leaving, not leaving this time
credits
from Everything Is Different,
released May 20, 2022
BRASS:CJ Camerieri, Steven Bernstein, Rob Jost, Cutis Hasselbring, Marcus Rojas, BASS/BEATS /STRINGS: Daniel Mintseris, Tak Nakamura, KEYS: Daniel Mintseris, Joy Askew, VOX: Joy Askew, MIX: Brian F Joseph
Joy Askew arrived in New York City from the North of England in the early 1980’s playing and singing with artists Joe
Jackson, Laurie Anderson, Peter Gabriel and Rodney Crowell. She also appeared in Laurie Anderson’s concert film “Home of The Brave”
Her album “Tender City” was released in'96 and since has released 9 more. “Everything Is Different” will be available in late Spring 2022!...more
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