PREMIERE: Gillian Grogan - Sleeping In Your Gardens

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By Gerard Marcus

At least once a year I wake up with a sudden urge to just leave where I am and go somewhere else. To have the freedom to just be and do whatever I want. But there are things, societal pressures, responsibilities, etcetera that inevitably get in the way. Sometimes though, you just have to go.

Copyright 2018 Gillian Grogan Packing up my bags Packing up yours Boxing up my history for Heading on the road Though I fear it's a sin Taking to the wheel Just to mark where I've been Pulling off the curb Yanking up the sail Off to find another view out there Up where the air's real thin And the trees are, too I don't know if I'll make it Up there to you Sleeping in your gardens Covered in your vines Hiding in the moments Sleeping in your gardens Covered in your vines Hiding in the moments Colored by your life Thumbing through the tides Leafing through the book Losing all my reason In the years that were took Years that were took Oh, years vaguely planned Years we had imagined Oh, we'd imagined Walking in my lane Coloring in my lines Folding up the laundry Like it's turning back time Working nine to five Sing a happy song Maybe I can fake it 'Till it don't feel so wrong Sleeping in your gardens Covered in your vines Hiding in the moments Sleeping in your gardens Covered in your vines Hiding in the moments Colored by your life

Gillian Grogan’s new single, “Sleeping In Your Garden,” is a gorgeous ode to free spirits trying to find the courage to be free. Grogan’s voice floats beautifully over rolling arpeggiated guitar. It weaves a tale of a protagonist who abandons a life as one is taught it should be lived, with stability, job security, set plans, and instead dives into the unknown, searching for a happiness they couldn’t find before. Grogan is always a fantastic lyricist, but in this new track is the harmonic sensibility of the melody really caught my ear, effortlessly creating tension in subtle moments that caught me off guard. Both choruses utilize this well, especially the doubled second chorus. These small moments of tension remind me of those feelings of escape. They’re the sound of someone taking a big leap into a pool of uncertainty and finding out the water feels great.