Brighter Days

by Sara Vian

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"Brighter Days" was inspired by the Shepton Mallet Snowdrop Festival song writing competition in 2020 and was co-written with Chris Watson from Music Eye who discovered a folk tale about how humanity was locked out of Eden in bitterest snow until an angel took pity on us and blew on the snow to create the snowdrop of hope.

The song also features guitarist, Davd Setterfield from Strange Folk and was produced by David too.

Cover art by Julie-Anne Cook.

lyrics

Locked out of Eden
In bitterest snow
Under bleak sombre shadow
Nothing did grow.
Then an angel from Heaven
Blew her warmth breath
Onto snow in her palm
She released us from death

Chorus
You herald new life
The sun’s on its way
Joy in my heart
And brighter days
Oh you herald new life
The sun’s on its way
Joy in my heart
And brighter days

Pearly white flowers
Belles of alpine
Snow-lillies of truth
Beauty divine
A carpet of white
In a woodland glade
Hope and light
To a darkened grave

Chorus
You herald new life
The sun’s on its way
Joy in my heart
And brighter days
Oh you herald new life
The sun’s on its way
Joy in my heart
And brighter days

Instrumental

A trinity of petals
On candlemass rise
Stems of green
Under pale blue skies
Fair maidens of February
Dancing in mist
Huddled together
In a frosty kiss

Chorus
You herald new life
The sun’s on its way
Joy in my heart
And brighter days
Oh you herald new life
The sun’s on its way
Joy in my heart
And brighter days
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released February 2, 2021

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Sara Vian Frome, UK

Soaring soundtracks with “premier league vocals” (Magpie’s Folk Cafe), enrapturing the listener with intriguing chord combinations, exquisite harmonies and stories of love, struggle, triumph and redemption.

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