I posted an earlier mix of this just in time for the Xmas holidaze. Here it is completed and mastered for release to the Interwilds! I’ve been feeling this one anew during this social distancing time, and I hope it takes you to a nice place for a minute too. Island Life comes out in the streaming services on Caturday, May 23. Exclusively here and on BandCamp now.
ISLAND LIFE
I’ve been workin’ late on Friday night
And I’m goin’ in on Caturday
I’ve been thinkin’ bout the island light
As another summer peels away
Hanging in this curtain
Grey skies over urban
Lately my mind’s been wanderin’
To where the horizon shoulda been
Touch, but I can’t be certain,
Where it all ends I start again,
Let’s blow it off
I wanna get away
I wanna hear some music
I wanna hear ya say
All the world’s an island, life is free,
Half a million friends, but I’m lonely,
As the glaciers fall and raise the sea,
Won’t you save some island life for me?
Why can’t we all just live in peace?
Sometimes I break down in the morning and cry
Scream out in the night
Only to realize
There’s nothing in the world we can’t do
Anything we set our minds to
Maybe someday I won’t always be alone
Hanging in this curtain
Grey skies over urban
Lately my mind’s been wanderin’
Right over the silver lining
South, to the blue shining
A postcard sent home to mom
All the world’s an island, life is free,
Every day looks still more crazy,
Greta sailed the wide and open sea,
For to save some island life for she
For we
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Eric Din – Guitars, Bass, Vocals, Loop Drums
Michael Urbano – Live Drums
Paul Jackson – Synths and Percussion
Recorded at Din’s house and East Bay Recorders,
by Michael Rosen and Mr. Din
Paul Jackson recorded by Paul Jackson at Paul’s house
Mixed by Matt Winegar
Mastered by Eric Din somewhere out in the woods
Cover art by Shannon Wheeler
Music and lyrics ©2019 by Eric Roy Dinwiddie,
King Roy Music, BMI
