Dawnings
letting the past in
By Nicholas Hooper
letting the past in, I stepped back to a time of shyness and love
when music was the only way to talk and my eyes told the truth
though my lips told lies through silence
a history began, a history of making music not love
which formed a path that brought me here, writing and playing
but never finding true love till it was ready to be found
and now I must confess that I would have it no other way
the sadness of those early times only served to strengthen my ability
to speak sadness through sound and that is where my way has come
to now, where happiness is in true duet with sadness
so life can be full of all the world, letting nothing be ignored
but paying good attention to every moment that I can in love
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About Dawnings:
“Every morning at around 5am I get up and go down to my studio. After a short meditation I write down whatever is in my head, giving myself fifteen minutes to do so. Then moving over to the piano (or a more portable instrument like my Ukulele when I'm away), I improvise and record a piece of music inspired by whatever words I just wrote. It is a great way of keeping both my writing and my composing going and I call these small creations Dawnings. They are mostly unedited, like sketches, so that they keep that fresh feeling of an early morning discovery.”
— Nick Hooper