Eve Goodman - Summer Sun, Winter Trees

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Eve Goodman- vocals, acoustic guitar https://www.evegoodman.co.uk
Luke Evans - acoustic guitar, bass guitar, autoharp
Recorded, engineered and mixed by Luke Evans at Cherry Orchard Studio
Mastered by Katie Tavini at Weird Jungle

The song explores the liminal space of the hours and days after my Dad took his life, seven years ago. I was floored by the force of what I then thought of as two opposing emotions: love and grief. Grief for what I would no longer have, love for what I do still have. Emotions rose and fell like a cataclysm in those liminal days, and I felt helpless to them as they took over my mind and body. One moment I was beside myself with grief, another moment I was filled with love for my family and for the constant friends I had in the birds and the more-than human world. In the song I explore these seemingly opposing emotions, and it becomes clear they share the same roots. Grief becomes love becomes grief. You can’t have one without the other.

The title has a myriad of meanings to me. It is a bow to the light and the dark within everything. It's about the descent into winter. It's about the sap rising to begin another cycle. It’s about the visceral aliveness that I experienced alongside, in tandem with, deep, dark, grief. It is about paradox and it is about oscillation.

LYRICS
Summer sun, winter trees
Winter sun, summer breeze
In your hair like a lens flare
Light up the window, make it glare
Now the light is low and you’ll never know
You’re not here but I feel your glow
And the sun has left for a different day
When the moon shows up she seems far away

Way away, somewhere far
Miles from her, she’s where you are
And I try to breathe but I lose my way
So many times, until I stay
And the thoughts don’t stop, they find a way
So I let them shout and have their say
I’m caught in the middle between what’s true
Is this all because of you?

Summer sun, winter trees
Winter sun, summer breeze
At the door she left me flowers
I count the petals, count the hours

Since you left for a different day
When the moon shows up you’re far away
And I scream to her, I punch and fight
Surely she reflects your light
And the thoughts don’t stop, they find a way
So I let them shout and have their say
And I’m caught in the middle
Between what’s true
Is this all because of you?

When the sun comes up, I call a friend
Start my story at the end
At the door she left me flowers
I count the petals, count the hours


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