The Great Pause

by Sara Vian

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A beautifully epic song illustrating the silver-lining on the coronavirus pandemic cloud, and how it could be perceived to be a very clever move by Nature to halt the insane industrious overdrive of humanity for a while which gave us an opportunity to stop, awaken and change course towards a more peaceful, saner and healthier new lifestyle re-connected to our soul and the long-lost garden.

Featuring:
David Setterfield - guitar
Will Angeloro - bass
Produced by Stephen Bentley
Artwork by Julie-Anne Cook

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She’s feeling down and she doesn’t know why
She can feel it in her bones but she doesn’t quite cry
A heaviness is weighing her down in her soul
Where is the joy and the peace and flow?
A delayed reaction to the pandemic?
The economy’s crashed and the people are sick
It hasn’t touched her life in any big way
But she sees it on the TV every day

The Great Pause, The Great Awakening
The planes are grounded
And industry’s shaken
The Great Pause, The Great Awakening
But there is peace
In what was godforsaken

People are growing their hair long
Learning an instrument or singing a song
Reconnecting with nature and baking a cake
Slowing things down - in the wake…
So she flees to the fields and turns to the sun
Breathing in the fresh breeze, she feels at one
With the earth and the rivers; the azure blue sky
And hopes once again it will be alright

The Great Pause, The Great Awakening
The planes are grounded
And industry’s shaken
The Great Pause, The Great Awakening
But there is peace
In what was godforsaken

Will things go back to the way that they were
Hell-bent on profit in a polluted blur
Will the PM’s near-death experience and his baby’s birth
Awaken his resolve to build Heaven on earth

The Great Pause, The Great Awakening
The planes are grounded
And industry’s shaken
The Great Pause, The Great Awakening
But there is peace
In what was godforsaken

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released August 7, 2020

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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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