January

from New Year by E.L.Dan and Sunflower Summit

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January is a glum time of year for me, and has been so repeatedly for what feels like forever. There's a grim disillusionment period where people take down the Christmas lights, families depart, and people return to their day to day lives, and it makes me sad to see the magic end. I leave my lights up as long as I can - I want that fairy dust to last a bit longer.

Inspired by this mood, January explores the anxieties that accompany the ending of the season - the questions about tomorrow, the stress with experiencing a financial low after spending too much on presents, and in particular, this year past year - 2020, being so traumatic. How do you move on from a year like this one? How do you greet a new year that may or may not be a rerun of the past?

lyrics

It’s always in January
When the Christmas lights are out
The warmth and love of December
Replaced with only dark

January
The Christmas lights are out
Warm December
Replaced with only dark

Lonely feeling
Can’t translate clearly
Steady breathing
Just keeps shrinking

Haven’t taken a deep breath
All year

So many ways
This year may go
So many days
I can’t control

Stepping outside without a coat
Bare feet on frozen earth
The wind has turned my skin to stone
Trying to find what it’s worth

Sinking with the snow
These feelings grow old
Merry-go-round, not so merry
Strange it seems to carry

The memory of distant spring

So many ways
This year may go
So many days
I can’t control

Won’t let the fear
Ruin this year
There’s a softness
I can hear

Whispering the truth
The story my breath knows
Steady as my heartbeat
Moving through the ebs and flows

So many ways
This year may go
So many days
I can’t control

Haven’t taken a deep breath
All year

The year ahead
Begins again
The year ahead
Begins again

Haven’t taken a deep breath
All year

The year ahead
Begins again
The year ahead
Begins again

Haven’t taken a deep breath
All year