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So many songs take place in the morning (or the morning after). While digging through my favorite albums and artists for examples, I easily found a whole slew. The few that stuck out each cover really different ground lyrically:
With exquisite lyrical minimalism, Holly Throsby’s ‘Up With The Birds’ explores infidelity.
’Sunday Morning’ by Velvet Underground and Nico touches on regret and wasted time.
Beck’s ‘Morning’ takes place the morning after an unarticulated, heartbreaking change. Or so it seems.
It’s tender, vulnerable and (oddly) dark stuff.
Despite this, these songs all feel like the morning sonically to me—like cocoons and dawning. Each of them slowly opens up, just like a morning can.
Morning songs can be expansive or intimate, spare or luscious. For such a simple regular thing, the morning provides ample songwriting material.
This week let’s explore mornings in our songwriting.
BL&KP
Lucy
‘Entry Points’
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