🎶 🎤Lady & Gentleman: Grateful - Just Released! 💫
GRATEFUL! 🙏❤️
I’ve discovered, that for me, making music is a winter sport. Thanksgiving comes, and I want to make music. I felt the pull last week, and wanted to find a song about gratitude that I could sing around the house with my live-in bandmate/wife Necia.😀 I didn’t really find one that was resonating, so I decided we should write our own. So… I sat down at the piano, and this is what came out:
Is this real life?
Do I really get to share it with these people by my side?
How fortunate am I?
I wonder why…
How’s it even possible I’m not completely satisfied?
I dare you, tell me why
Because I’m wide awake!
Not every day, but in this moment
I see it clear as day!
I’m grateful for this life
For my kids and wife
For my Mom & Dad
All the kids they had
For each passing breath
Until I’ve nothing left
I’m Grateful
For the simple things
The stillness winter brings
For the lake and trees,
Gentle summer breeze
As long as I can sing
Thanks for everything
I’m Grateful
We rush right through
There’s too many days I’m running so fast I lose sight of you
Such a foolish thing to do
Let’s slow it down
If you close your eyes and listen closely you won’t hear a sound
Because there’s no one else around
And we’re wide awake
Not every day, but in this moment I see you clear as day.
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It’s all true. So much to be grateful for. Whenever I stop running a million miles an hour and pause to reflect on it all, this is how I feel. Is this real life? How fortunate am I?
I’m still trying to crack the code and figure out how to live permanently in this “wide awake” state where I see things “clear as day”: where inconveniences seem as insignificant as they usually are, and the reality of the fullness of life itself is an overwhelming gift.
Creating music is my happy place. It’s a gift to do it with my wife, and share the songs with my family, my friends, our tribe, and anyone who feels a connection. Lady & Gentleman was a music project that got derailed a bit by Covid, but there are many more songs ready for the studio. We’re excited to share them soon. In the meantime, we’re feeling grateful. For the gift of music. For family. For life. For you.
Thanks for listening.
Wide Awake!
Jon & Necia Ornée
Lady & Gentleman
LadyAndGentlemanMusic.com
*Super grateful for my friend Andrew Nelson who helped me bring this song and video to life in our little office studio.😀🙏❤️