For digital download and streaming of Spring Song
From the dark, still heart of winter, on this first day of 2020, comes the release of Plan Be’s first single, “Spring Song”.
Spring Song is a love letter to the Sun. As an off-the-grid kid growing up in the mountains of Northern California in the 1970s the sun was everything to us. The sun gave us electricity through a few small solar panels. It was enough to power some simple electric lights and our record player. The sun heated water for us in our solar hot water collector, which made it possible to take warm showers. In the winter our little mountain house was freezing cold in the mornings until we built a fire. The first signs of the arrival of spring were a celebration of easier days ahead.
I can remember the morning I wrote the lyrics to Spring Song. It was March 29th 2009. I was visiting Stefan at his house in Ashland for the first time, and the morning sun was pouring in through the sliding glass door. I opened the door and sat in the doorway letting the sun warm me in the most delicious way. The morning was cool and bright. There was still snow on the mountains around us and tree branches were still bare. But the sun was strong and warm and as it fell upon my face I could feel a response from deep within. The invitation was to grow, to reach for the light. It was an invitation to trust the perfect timing of spring’s arrival and the unfolding of the seeds of new love that Stefan and I were tending.
As at the beginning of any new season there was a sense of uncertainty….is this going to work? Is this garden going to grow? Did I plant too early? Will there be another hard freeze? But that morning the warm strong sun marched right into the cold spring and said, “Here I am! It’s time!” And as I looked more closely at the earth I saw the violets and grape hyacinth blooming. And as I looked up, I saw that though the limbs of the backyard aspen were bare, the leaf nodes were swollen and any day the first green leaves would appear. “Don’t hesitate; don’t be afraid to grow toward the light!” I heard the earth singing. “Be courageous and growth will follow!”
So I took the pen and notebook that were on my lap and began to write:
“Sun your morning climb comes new, not even April….”
Later that morning Stefan was playing a little motif on his guitar and I tried out the poem that had come through in the sunlight. The fusion was easy and quick. And “Spring Song” was born. 10 years later we have recorded it and are ready to share it with you. After all, “How could anything that started off so bravely, be anything but sweet?” Enjoy!!
--Cyrise Beatty Schachter
Sun your morning climb still new
not even April
Chill still in the branches of the aspen
but the swell in the node is clear
We predict that from here
you'll continue to coax us into bloom
we predict that your perfumed invitation arrives
just in time just in time just in time
And you are my teacher
each offer speaks just grow just grow just grow
'cause you know you're the reason
for the bees and the breeze
and the symphony of the season
The song of response to light
hums in the background of all life
but you show us your lack of hesitation
Will we send the end of March to her turning? Soon.
Soon sweet peas, lilac, strawberry blossoms too
Soon the green sweep of leafing
will be evidently clear
soon there will be no question
of what is happening here
And you are my teacher
each offer speaks just grow just grow just grow
'cause you know you're the reason
for the bees and the breeze
and the symphony of the season
The song of response to light
hums in the background of all life
but you show us your lack of hesitation
We know we can't stop you from being
halfway here
but it gives us the perspective we need
to see clearly
We catch our reflection in your new green sheen
but it's incomplete
How could something that started off so bravely
be anything but sweet?
Cyrise Schachter - Voice, Cajon, Shaker
Stefan Schachter - Guitar
Donnie Yance - Bass
Recorded at Brokenworks Productions, LLC
Mixed and mastered by Jim Abdo
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Edited by the Schachter Family