(This video came out one year ago! ... Which is hard for me to believe.)
Sometimes a song haunts me into writing it, and this was one of those. It wouldn't let me go. My first scribbles and lines were heavy and dark. A "dark" that could swallow a person up, and no one would want to hear those early drafts--including the songwriter who wrote them. I just about gave up on it entirely. Because it hurt too much. It was painful looking for the hope in the story I was trying to set down. Then with two words the point of view changed and flipped everything upside right...
I remember watching this video for the first time, seeing the hopefulness (that took so long to embroider into the fabric of the song) before my eyes, and I am so thankful to Grant Walker for it. For his ideas and the vision for this project, for the time and care he took with it, for catching the fireflies... For so many things.
(And I'm very thankful to our star, too, who is the very definition of a darling heart.)
"You are a luminary
Heir to the lamp you carry
Undaunted, you walk around this haunted, war-torn town
And you don’t know how to hate
Darling heart, stay that way
For yours, I know, could melt a heart of stone...."
Happy birthday, video.
-BJ
P.S. By the way, thank you all so much
for your kind comments and notes about “Golden Hour”!
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