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We Are the Sun feat. Naomi Adele Smith & Johnny Unicorn

from Rhapsody & Filigree by Brian Woodbury

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written & arranged by Brian Woodbury

lyrics

V E R S E 1 A
We’ll never make it to another star
There isn’t energy to get that far
We don’t have time to take a trip so long
And I’m not smart enough
to show you I’m not wrong

V E R S E 1 B
We can’t upload our minds into the cloud
To shoot beyond what physics has allowed
We’re bound by sunlight, spirit, breath and will
Though I’m not bright enough
to prove I’m right, but still

C H O R U S 1
We are the sun
We are our only sun
A beam of light - to everyone
We shine
All day long
All night long
All along

V E R S E 2
The stars stare back into our distant past
Can they detect our brilliant chloroplast?
Or scan the skies to find our world of blue?
Would we surprise them
with the things our star can do?

C H O R U S 2
We are the sun
We are our only sun
A beam of light - to everyone
We shine
All day long
All night long
All along

B R I D G E
Oh, don’t be sad
Don’t go stark-raving mad
Lost to the world you’re not leaving or saving
You should be glad
This is not a launching pad
Good or bad
We are the star
The star that you’re craving

G U I T A R S O L O

V E R S E 3
There is no future world we’re bound to go
You’ll never take my word for it, I know
There is no heaven for us when we die
The sun’s circumference charts our real pi
in the sky

P R E - C H O R U S
Oh hear us,
Starlight
Star ray
First star we see today
Wish we might
Wish we may
Wish the wish away
away

C H O R U S 3
We are the sun
We are our only sun
A beam of light - to everyone
We shine
All day long
All night long

C H O R U S 4
We are the sun
We are our only sun
Through everything - we’ve ever done
We’ve shone
All day long
All night long
All along
Shine, shine, shine, shine

credits

from Rhapsody & Filigree, released July 25, 2022
vocals, sampled glockenspiel, bass Brian Woodbury; vocals Naomi Adele Smith; vocals Johnny Unicorn; guitars Marc Muller; piano Eli Brueggemann; drums & percussion Jonathan Feinberg

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Brian Woodbury Los Angeles, California

Brian Woodbury is a Los Angeles composer, lyricist and bandleader who writes musicals, post-modern jazz compositions, quirky pop, country songs and music for children's TV.

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