The Joy of Music. First four songs out now, short film, album, and concert tour to follow. 

Listen here: http://smarturl.it/BRDOSLMBL

Lyrics:
It can be hard to believe in miracles 
Hard to trust in things that are a mystery 
To forget that there is magic in the world
That there is more than just what we can touch and see
 
When you came around I heard the sound of angels singing 
 
Now for the very first time I believe I can fly 
Head to toe I'm electrified
I can feel it 
I believe it 
I am seeing 
Something supernatural 
Every time I look in your eyes 
I understand that God is alive
I can feel 
I believe it 
I am seeing yeah 
Something supernatural 
Supernatural, supernatural, supernatural
Supernatural, supernatural, supernatural
 
It can be hard to remember who we are 
That we are beautiful
That we are holy things 
That the pen that the wrote the moon and sun and stars
Wrote a symphony inside of you and me 
 
So when you come around I hear the sound of angels singing 
 
Now for the very first time I believe I can fly 
Head to toe I'm electrified
I can feel it 
I believe it 
I am seeing 
Something supernatural 
Every time I look in your eyes 
For I understand that God is alive
I can feel 
I believe it 
I am seeing yeah 
Something supernatural 
Supernatural, supernatural, supernatural
Something supernatural 
Supernatural, supernatural, supernatural
 
Yeah yeah oh yeah 
Every time that I look in your eyes 
I understand that God is alive
I believe it 
I can feel it 
I can see it 
Oh something supernatural 
Supernatural, supernatural, supernatural
Oh something supernatural 
I feel I feel I feel something supernatural 
Supernatural, supernatural, supernatural
Supernatural, supernatural, supernatural
Supernatural, supernatural, supernatural
 
I feel something supernatural

The Joy Of Music

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The Joy of Music. First four songs out now, short film, album, and concert tour to follow. 

Listen now: http://smarturl.it/BRDOSLMBL

Lyrics:
Do you ever get scared
Do you ever get sad 
Did you forget the childhood dreams that you had 
Hoped it’d be better but things turned out bad and all went wrong

You don’t have to climb mountains or walk on the moon 
To fill up your heart like a great big balloon 
If you can't sleep at night just remember this tune 
and sing along 

Dream on 
Dream on 
Even when you’re afraid all your dreams may be gone
Just dream on 
Dream on
When the world says you’re crazy just tell them they’re wrong and dream on 

When I was younger I played make believe
Now when I close my eyes I just fall asleep 
If you live long enough life will make you believe that they're gone 

Dream on 
Dream on 
Even when you’re afraid all your dreams may be gone
Just dream on 
Dream on
When the world says you’re crazy just tell them they’re wrong and dream on 

Dream on 
Dream on 
To infinity and far beyond
Maybe they’ll take you fabulous places 
Maybe you’ll wake up right where you belong

Dream on 
Dream on 
Even when you’re afraid all your dreams may be gone
Just dream on 
Dream on
When the world says you’re crazy just tell them they’re wrong   
When the world says you’re crazy just tell them they’re wrong and dream on

Dream On

Listen to the official audio for Ben Rector’s song “Joy.”

New album ‘The Joy Of Music’ is out now. Listen here: https://smarturl.it/TheJoyOfMusic

Catch Ben and Joy on tour this summer! See all dates at:  https://smarturl.it/TheJoyOfMusicLive 

Lyrics:

(Feeling good, feeling right
Every day, every night
I got joy in my life
In my life)
 
I used to wake up feeling real stressed
Now I wake up feeling real blessed
I’m in the sunshine and living my best
Life
 
There for a minute I was feeling real rough 
Until I saw that what I had was enough
I didn’t know that I could love it this much
 
But I’m
 
Feeling good, feeling right
Every day, every night
Cause I got joy in my life
In my life
 
Yeah
 
Say farewell, say goodbye
To my worries and strife 
Cause I got joy in my life
In my life 
 
Sing it with me now:
Joy
Baby, baby I got Joy 
 
When the rain falls
When the sun shines 
When the winds change 
In a hard time 
I will stand firm 
I’ll be alright 
Cause I got joy 
In my life
 
When the rain falls
When the sun shines 
When the winds change 
In a hard time 
I will stand firm 
I’ll be alright 
Cause I got joy 
In my life
 
Feeling good, feeling right
Every day, every night
Cause I got joy in my life
In my life
 
Yeah
 
Say farewell, say goodbye
To my worries and strife 
Cause I got joy in my life (in my life)
In my life (in my life)
 
Sing it with me now:
Joy
 
Baby, baby I got Joy 
Joy
 
I got joy 
Joy
 
Outro: 
 
And that, my friends, is The Joy of Music. Thanks so much for listening. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed making it. Which was a lot. 
 
There’s a list of people I’d like to thank coming up. If you could stick around for that, stick around. If you’ve got somewhere to be, no sweat, just know that I really appreciate you tuning in and making this album a small part of your life. 
 
I’d like to thank John Fields for being my partner in crime. For his patience as I changed things a decibel at a time again and again, only to go back to what we had originally. Thanks John. You’re the best. 
 
To my wife Hillary, for your support as I came out here almost every day for a year and a half to chase down this record. So glad I get to do life with you, and you’re the best. 
To my daughter Jane, for making me excited to wake up every morning to see what you’re gonna say and do. 
 
To my twins, Roy and Robert, for being just an absolute handful, but for being pretty sweet most of the time. 
 
I wanna thank Snoop Dogg, which is a sentence I never thought I’d say, for rapping on “Sunday,” and for being cool about it when I edited out your reference to National Blunt Day. 
 
Thanks to Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes for making my hipster musician friends think I’m just a little bit cooler than I am. 
 
To Kenny G for cred with my dad. 
 
And to Dave Koz for ripping what is potentially the best saxophone solo I’ve ever heard in my life on “Supernatural.” 
 
Thanks to all the other writers, players, just collaborators in general who lended your talents to the record. It is better because of it, and I am grateful to work with you. 
 
Well guys, we did it. Until I see you next time, this is Ben Rector, signing off, telling you to please be joyful.

Listen to the official audio for Ben Rector’s song “Cliches” featuring Taylor Goldsmith. 

New album ‘The Joy Of Music’ is out now. Listen here: https://smarturl.it/TheJoyOfMusic

Catch Ben and Joy on tour this summer! See all dates at:  https://smarturl.it/TheJoyOfMusicLive 

Lyrics:

They say that opposites attract
Don’t know it for a fact
I’m here to tell you it’s the truth
 
Cause you were open, I was closed
Diametrically opposed
I guess we’re the livin’ proof
 
Don’t know who writes all these down
Mulls them over, thinks ‘em out
All the wisdom that they bring
Cause I used to think that they were trite
It turns out they’re mostly right
There’s a reason they’re a thing
 
Say these adages like warnings
If they turn out to be true
Cause the more of life I’m livin’ next to you
These days
Cliches
 
If you’re the apple, I’m the tree
But don’t fall too close to me
You’re already twice the human that I’ll ever be
They say grown men shouldn’t cry
But I’ve had somethin’ in my eye 
Since you turned us two to three
 
The more and more I’m learnin’
These aren’t exceptions, they’re the rule
That the more of life I’m livin’ next to you
These days
Are cliches
 
Cliches
 
We’ve all heard that time can fly
In the blinking of an eye
This one feels a bit too real
 
And if all good things come to an end
And I can’t take this ride again
I will tell you how I feel
 
You will hear me in the ocean
You will see me in the moon
 
But don’t mistake these messages to you
 
For cliches
 
Cliches

Cliches (feat. Taylor Goldsmith)

Listen to the official audio for Ben Rector’s song “Hanging Out” featuring Kenny G. 

New album ‘The Joy Of Music’ is out now. Listen here: https://smarturl.it/TheJoyOfMusic

Catch Ben and Joy on tour this summer! See all dates at:  https://smarturl.it/TheJoyOfMusicLive 

Lyrics:

Feels like everyone I know is suddenly a TV show 
Living in some gossip magazine 
Lately I’ve tried but I can’t find it in my heart to chase those lights 
Does that mean something’s wrong with me? 
 
Cause I’ve been kinda hanging out 
Living some life you don't write songs about 
Yeah took a break from moving mountains  
Yeah I’m finally slowing down some 
No moving, no shaking 
Been fine with just hanging out 
 
Lately I’ve been going for runs 
And watching my daughter eat her lunch
Listening through the Beatles catalogue 
What does it mean to catch your dreams if you can’t sit alone 
And think without your thoughts all going wrong 
 
So I’ve been kinda hanging out 
Living some life you don’t write songs about 
Like you remember in that story how 
Jules Verne went 20K leagues down
That’s how low I’ve been laying 
Just kinda been hanging out 
I've been kinda hanging out 
Just been kinda
Just been kinda hanging out 
Oooh I’ve been kinda hanging out 
 
I just realized I’ve spent my whole life
Thinking I was nothing if I wasn’t doing everything just right
For the first time since I’ve been a kid 
When I close my eyes
I can sleep at night 
 
I’ve been kinda hanging out 
Got new ideas about the good life now 
Yeah took a break from moving mountains
Yeah I’m finally slowing down some 
No moving no shaking 
Just kinda been hanging 
No moving no shaking 
Been fine with just hanging out

Hanging Out (feat. Kenny G)

Listen to the official audio for Ben Rector’s song “Thank You.”

New album ‘The Joy Of Music’ is out now. Listen here: https://smarturl.it/TheJoyOfMusic

Catch Ben and Joy on tour this summer! See all dates at:  https://smarturl.it/TheJoyOfMusicLive 

Lyrics:

Thanks for the sunrise
Thanks for the night sky
Thanks for the deepest blue
In my daughter's eyes
And thanks for the weekend
Thanks for a good friend
Thanks for “In the High Life Again”
Makes me feel alive
 
It’s been too long since we sat down and talked this way
But life is hard sometimes I don’t know what to say
So thank you (thank you)
Thank you (thank you)
Thank you (thank you)
Oooh for you have been good to me (you have been good)
You have been good (have been good)
Oh you have been good to me (you have been good)
You are always good
 
I miss how the world seemed
Back when I was nineteen
Or I just miss havin’ things
All figured out
Cause I got these doubts and
I got these questions
They got me wonderin’
I bet you’ll sort it out
 
It’s been too long since we’ve sat down and talked this way
But life is hard sometimes I don’t know what to say
There are times when it just doesn’t make no sense
But you have been good to me, you have been good to me
Time and again
 
So thank you (thank you)
Thank you (thank you)
Thank you (thank you)
Wooah for you have been good to me
You have been good
For you have been good to me
You have been good
Singin,’ thank you (thank you)
Thank you (thank you)
Thank you (thank you)
Oooh for you have been good to me (you have been good)
You have been good (you have been good)
Oh you have been good to me (you have been good)
You are always good
 
Come on sing it out, sing it loud
Sing it together
Come on sing it out, sing it loud
So we can remember
Come on sing it out, sing it loud
So we can remember
So I can remember
So I can remember
Come on sing it out, sing it loud
Sing it together
Come on sing it out, sing it loud
So we can remember
Come on sing it out, sing it loud
So we can remember
So I can remember
So I can remember
 
Thank you (thank you)
Thank you (thank you)
Thank you (thank you)
Wooah for you have been good to me 
You have been good
For you have been good to me
You have been good
 
We’re singin’, thank you (thank you)
Thank you (thank you)
Thank you (thank you)
Oooh for you have been good to me (you have been good)
You have been good (you have been good)
For you have been good to me (you have been good)
You are always good

Thank You

Listen to the official audio for Ben Rector’s song “Heroes.”

New album ‘The Joy Of Music’ is out now. Listen here: https://smarturl.it/TheJoyOfMusic

Catch Ben and Joy on tour this summer! See all dates at:  https://smarturl.it/TheJoyOfMusicLive 

Lyrics:

I miss when I had superpowers
My imagination was my friend and it ran wild and free
I could waste a couple hours
Without a worry in the world staring at stars out on my trampoline, yeah 
 
I miss when Andy McAuthur was the fastest kid there was and kid there was ever gonna be 
Ken Griffey Jr. was a giant before parents got divorced and I learned that there was gravity 
 
I miss my old heroes
I had to give them all away 
I miss my old heroes yeah yeah
God I wish they could’ve stayed
Cause it turns out that the hardest part of growing up's not getting old
It's learning how the real world goes
I miss my old
I miss my old 
 
I miss my Bible study leader
Had all the answers for living in the big bad world 
Don’t know if he still talks to Jesus 
But his wife's remarried now and I think he sells garage doors  
 
I miss when I thought chasing dreams was 
Holy magic behind curtains in a sacred place
Before it was managers and lawyers 
Who colored up and cashed them out 
For vacation homes in coastal states 
 
I miss my old heroes
I had to give them all away 
I miss my old heroes yeah yeah 
God I wish they could’ve stayed
Cause it turns out that the hardest part of growing up’s not getting old
It's learning how the real world goes
I miss my old
I miss my old 
I miss my old heroes
 
I miss my old heroes
 
I miss back when the world was small and we had all the answers
I miss how it was when we were young 
I miss back before I understood all the ways that life would break your heart 
Before I knew that's what they called growing up 
 
I miss my old heroes
I had to give them all away 
I miss my old heroes yeah yeah 
God I wish they could’ve stayed
Cause it turns out that the hardest part of growing up’s not just getting old
It's learning how the real world goes
I miss my old
I miss my old 
I miss my old heroes 
I miss my old heroes

Heroes

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At the age of 22 Ethan Surman has spent a lifetime honing his craft. A true multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and songwriter. A melding of Pop music fervor and static bedroom recordings. Rounding out an eclectic sound that skirts the lines of R&B, Indie, and Hip Hop.

Drawing inspiration from the likes of Dominic Fike, Daniel Caesar, Tame Impala, Stevie Wonder and the Beatles, Surman has formed an homage to the profoundly emotional works that raised him. Encapsulated in passionate writings and lyricism, as well as a visceral and moving live performance. Slamming together characters collected from rock bands with vocalists who bring soaring harmonies while adding moving piano melodies.

Having moved on from a scholarship at the Berklee College of Music, and recordings with world class producers in the works, Ethan Surman is a musician on the cusp of a bright expansion.

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