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Copyright © Matthew Moran 2007 // Sea Gypsy Music

Sunrise & Sedona

Where did the song come from?
I was sitting next to Oak Creek.  It was morning, Laura was still asleep in the hotel room and I had taken my guitar and coffee down a steep set of steps to a stone deck on the river.  Walking down I was completely taken by the sun filtering down the canyon, off the red rocks.  Down by the river’s edge, sunlight streamed through the trees and the river was awash with reflections of light and shadow.  I thought, I could see how just seeing this could cause you to check out of life.  I wrote the chorus right then and thought, it is about a big city girl, visiting Sedona and never returning to her old life.

Chorus:
She said it was sunrise and Sedona
That made her lose her mind that way
Caught somewhere between the river and red canyon walls
And she said she didn’t need it anyway

Verse1:
She hopped on a West bound plane from Chicago
Touched down in the heat of a desert storm
Not quite sure, what she hoped to find
But certain that she couldn’t find it back at home

Found sanctuary in the mountains
Walking beside a clear, cold stream
And there she swears, she kissed the face of God
Spent the rest of the week like in a dream
(chorus)

Left the city an attorney
Now she paints and serves coffee on the street
And never regrets, the race of rats she’s left
Or the cold desperation beneath her feet

Her mother thinks she might be crazy
Her sister tried to talk her back today
But when that morning sun spreads gold across the sky
Sanity seems a small price to pay
(chorus)