Just got a couple more songs here and then we'll
make way for the Q and A session,
so we can hear from some of the folks who
created some of these tunes.
Yeah, let's do this one.
There's one tiny detail in the last verse of this song that
sometimes makes me cry.
Maybe today I will.
Maybe today I won't.
This is called "Wildfires," it's by Wyatt.
(SINGING) Like headlights shining in the dark
The way a fire can't start without a spark
Damn sure I can make a life
Cut out this darkness with a knife
I am cutting
Oh
So many nights I laid awake
Listening to the sound of my own hearts ache
Worrying this can't be all there is
Praying for a way out of all of this
I was praying
Oh
Now my heart sings
I am free
A song that echoes on the breeze
I have a fire burning in my soul
I have a [INAUDIBLE] life now
Giving up the old
I have a [INAUDIBLE] life now
Giving up the old
I have a [INAUDIBLE] life now
Burn so fearlessly with goddamn hope
Rid yourself of these weights and rows
Burn like a wildfire out of control
Then rise from your ashes with new growth
I am burning
Oh
I am burning
Oh
[APPLAUSE]
Yeah.
That was when one of my favorite collaboration moments.
The pattern that Wyatt was working with
is the last two lines of each verse go, cut out this darkness
with a knife I am cutting.
So we say the verb and then we have cutting.
Praying for a way out of all of this, I was praying.
And then that last one, rise from your ashes with new growth.
And you would think that it would
be, I am rising, to follow the pattern.
And instead he wrote, I am burning.
not rising yet.