2025 Competition Entry:

Sense of wonder by Blue Sofa Songs

Genre

Rock

Website

Co-writer(s)

no

Performer(s)

Brad Matthews. Guitar, Bass, Keyboards, Drum loops, vocals, backing vocals, Lyrics and music.

Description

I wanted to write a song about the environment and man made climate change that was positive, not political or preachy. We can all appreciate the beauty of the planet and hopefully realise it’s all we’ve got. Carl Sagan’s Pale blue dot was an inspiration and is in the lyrics. There’s also an aknowledgement of the part evolution and time has played so I purposely used the lines “bright and beatiful” and “creatures great and small” along with billions of years in the making.
I wanted the song to be epic tuneful and expansive so I’ve used keyboards to provide the brass section in the chorus to fatten out the sound.

Bio

I have a YouTube channel called Blue Sofa Songs where I have songs all written and played by myself from the early days of playing live into a camera phone to using DAW softwear.

https://www.youtube.com/@bluesofasongs8917

Lyrics

bright and beautiful
sights so natural
billions of years in the making

Chorus
walk this earth with a sense of wonder
from oceans blue to mountains yonder
winter spring summer or fall
our pale blue dot so beatiful

creatures great and small
life in all it’s forms
billions of years in the making

Chorus

immerse yourself
the beauty’s all around
there for everyone

Chorus x 2

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