Sun and Valley

The Lyrics

I roll through a new town every year
I'm not afraid of
the games that little townie boys place with
my rugged heart now
jessie says that I'm so brave to show up to the party
I used to serve coffee to a girl who said that I've lived more than most men
and I was 16 then 

do you believe me when I say that I've been looking everywhere
from new york to belgrade
for someone just like you?

I've been through the sun and valley and
know you're the best of 
I've seen all there is to see, just about
and you're the best of 

I'm clever like the runaways that god can never catch but
I think you're better
I've looked at the deepest pits and found that your love
goes even deeper
in the darkness, we say the same things
you're something special
you could be the man that takes out of me
the walking vagrant
and I think you like that 

I've been through the sun and valley and
know you're the best of 
I've seen all there is to see, just about
and you're the best of

The Story

I started writing songs in 2019 to help me recover from and process an abusive relationship. As I started attending songwriting workshops, someone noticed that all of my songs revolved around the same theme: anger and hurt. He told me, “what if you wrote a song about where everything worked out?” I wrote “Sun and Valley” in the summer of 2020, in the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. I have written many happy songs in which everything worked out, but “Sun and Valley” was the first. I imagined a world in which all my pain and work turned into something safe that made sense. In retrospect, this song represents much more than recovery from abuse – it also held hope for the light at the end of the tunnel of the pandemic.


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